AS EFFORTS to unite warring factions in the St Andrew Eastern constituency continue to unfold, the citizens’ associations in five communities have embarked on an ambitious ‘Tourist in Every Yard’ project to be rolled out on August 1, 2022. The...
Three distinguished justices of the peace (JPs) representing Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey, were among more than a dozen honoured with the Golden Scale Award on August 28. The county honourees were Howard Deers, Florizel Allen and Michael Reid....
The issue of Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity for students who have to do online classes in some rural St Catherine communities has been a challenge since the onset of the coronavirus in Jamaica that forced the discontinuation of face-to-face...
Soaring coronavirus infections in the southwestern parish of St Elizabeth are a cause for concern for healthcare officials, with new cases rising 43 per cent over the last month. Parish manager for health services, Sean Brissett has forecast tough...
Chronic renal failure is a major public health problem in Jamaica, and this is placing added financial burden on the healthcare sector as well as on the growing number of patients who need care. Professor Emeritus of Nephrology at The University of...
A group of anti-vaxxers from the United Independent Congress (UIC), Jamaica’s third registered political party, staged a demonstration in Spanish Town, St Catherine, last Saturday. The group is demanding that the Andrew Holness administration halt...
Residents of Cuffies Pen and surrounding districts in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, have not had water running in their pipes for more than seven years and are now fed up with having to live without the precious commodity. According to the them, their...
The ravages of the coronavirus have taken the ultimate toll on one St Elizabeth family whose members are pondering if their relative would still be alive if he had been vaccinated. Andrew Burton, 45, was not an anti-vaxxer, but had reportedly not...
The success of Jamaica’s campaign to immunise tens of thousands of students could rest on the mobilisation of an army of vaccination teams into rural districts and inner-city communities. That is the assessment of Education Minister Fayval Williams...
Chaos is set to reign in the island’s public transport sector today as while interest group leaders are asking taxi and bus operators to delay applying a ministry-approved 15 per cent increase in fares as they lobby for a higher percentage, some...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has said that there is no excuse for Jamaicans to now not take the COVID-19 vaccine, emphasising its importance in crippling the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of 207 new justices of the...
In an effort to foster change in the violence-torn August Town in St Andrew Central, some community-based groups have started initiatives to give back to the area. The Peace Builders, African Gardens/Bedward Crescent Community Development...
In a sweeping condemnation of persons who are using social media to perpetuate misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine, State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Alando Terrelonge, has called on those...
Residents in the Bog Walk Gorge have blamed the contamination of the Rio Cobre for anecdotal cases of ill health and the stench from a fish kill for a financial fallout for small businesses. The unbearable smell coming from hundreds of pounds of...
Seventy-one-year-old Clovis Brown, a resident of Sligoville, St Catherine, was nine years old when Jamaica got its Independence from Britain in 1962. She recalled attending the Sligoville All-Age School at the time, and the efforts made by teachers...
There seem to be a waning resistance to the idea of the municipality of Portmore becoming Jamaica’s 15th parish on the part of some residents who spoke at the joint select committee of Parliament virtual town hall meeting last Thursday. Since the...
In a fervent display of will and determination, the Hermitage Women For Peace, in association with the Sizzla Youth Foundation and the August Town Peace Builders, staged a peace march on Sunday to register their opposition to the continued...
As citizens of Portmore were drawn into the discussions for the first time on the issue of their municipality becoming Jamaica’s 15th parish, concerns about well-defined parish boundaries, infrastructural development and revenue fallout dominated a...
Rogue transport operators whose unlicensed vehicles have had to be seized multiple times by the police should have their property forfeited to the State. That’s a recommendation by Senior Superintendent of Police Gary McKenzie, head of the Public...
Gang feud erupted in the Park Lane community off Red Hills Road, Kingston 19, on Saturday, leaving one family in deep distress after gunmen shot three cousins who were members of the family, killing two, and injuring a third. Another man, believed...
Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a building that housed the administrative offices at the Hydel Group of Schools along Mandela Highway in St Catherine yesterday morning, just before the start of external examinations. There were no...
West Indies Home Contractors’ (WIHCON) plan to build 328 town houses on lands in Westchester, Portmore, will not trigger the eviction of businesses and a church that occupy the property. Concerns have lingered since WIHCON’s announcement of the...
Reported allegations of sexual abuse committed against children, although seeing a decline in 2020 over 2019, has prompted children’s advocate, national rapporteur and specialised justice expert Diahann Gordon Harrison to call for an expansion of...
Residents of 38 Valdez Road in Homestead, St Catherine, are demanding justice following the shooting death of 19-year-old Kevon Morgan, a tiler who was allegedly shot and killed by Jamaica Defence Force soldiers about 11:30 a.m. in the community...
After incurring massive losses since it was commissioned into service in 2016, the operations of the Linstead Transportation Centre will now be regularised. Plagued by extortion schemes, the failure of taxi and minibus operators to use the facility...
