Chairman of the Commercial Services Committee at the St Ann Municipal Corporation, Councillor Ian Isaacs, has pledged to solve the garbage woes at the Brown’s Town Market under the $15-million refurbishing exercise currently under way. Isaacs, as...
A pastor in Brown’s Town, St Ann, who had been waging a campaign on social media against Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the COVID-19 measures he had been implementing had predicted from as early as August 2020 that he was going to be arrested....
Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry has condemned the killing of Phileman Wynter as a “wicked” act that has left staff at the public watchdog’s three locations in Kingston, Montego Bay, and Mandeville grieving and in need of counselling....
Already showing signs of increased efficiency since data collection began in 2016, Jamaica’s judicial system got another boost on Sunday with the launch of the Senior Judges of the Parish Courts Commission. The commission is made up of all senior...
Recently-appointed chairman of the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA), Laura Heron, says getting people vaccinated and back to work are top of her agenda as she assumes a position made vacant by the passing of former chairman Tyrone...
Having built the unenviable reputation as one of St Ann’s crime hotspots, Parry Town is benefiting from a tree-planting project that involves 600 fruit and food trees, courtesy of Food For The Poor (FFTP). The project, which started recently, is...
The principal of a private school in Manchester is seeking to borrow $10 million from the Government to restructure her school and keep it afloat as the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues. In the interim, Sharon Denny-Tomlinson...
A woman, who in January made a report to the St Ann police that she was abducted and raped, has been charged with public mischief after later confessing to the lawmen that her report was false. She is to appear in the St Ann Parish Court on April...
Head of the paediatric department at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, Dr Coralie Antoine, has added her voice to those encouraging Jamaicans to take the AstraZeneca vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Antoine, who was the first person in St Ann to...
Mustard Seed Communities’ Widow’s Mite in St Ann is now able to transport wheelchair-bound children more comfortably, thanks to the California-based Motra Foundation, which on Tuesday donated a bus to the organisation. In its first foray into the...
The flouting of COVID-19 restrictions by a pentecostal pastor should not be used to broad-brush Christians in St Ann, the former chairman of the Ocho Rios Ministers Fraternal has said. The Rev Jonathan Hemmings said that churches have, by and large...
Hampered by curfew restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, several vendors were unable to respond fast enough to save their goods on Saturday night as fire razed several stalls at the Ocho Rios Market in St Ann. The St Ann Fire...
The pastor of a church in Windsor Heights, St Ann’s Bay, has been charged with breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act after the police were called to a worship service. Charged is Christine McLean of the City of Refuge Endtime Prophetic...
A dispute over the dumping of garbage led to the murder of a 19-year-old woman and the wounding of another in the rural community of Carlton Mountain, near Claremont in St Ann, on Tuesday. The police are now seeking a security guard for...
Like reggae king Bob Marley, Neville Livingston attended Stepney Primary School in St Ann as youngsters, having moved to the Garden Parish from his birthplace in Kingston. For years, he and his younger sisters, Vinette, Millicent, and Pearl, made...
By the end of July, residents of Gayle and nearby communities who utilise the health centre should soon have a refurbished and upgraded facility as the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) undertakes extensive repairs. Although not...
With a $90.87 million price tag to rehabilitate the St Ann Family Court in St Ann’s Bay, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has demanded of contractor Stephen Chung of Contraxx Enterprise Limited to not only deliver on time, but to also ensure that a...
Three schools in St Ann recently benefited from a collaboration between Moon Palace Resort’s Palace Foundation and IB Roof Systems, headquartered in Texas, USA, which saw over 90 students getting care packages. The schools, St Christopher’s School...
A St Ann couple, Charles and Hyacinth Henry, recently donated 75 dietary trays to the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital. The trays, measuring 21 x 13 inches, are designed for safe, professional in-room patient meal service. The trays were accepted by...
St Ann has been actively preparing for the roll-out of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as the country awaits its first shipment, which is expected by the end of the month. St Ann’s acting medical officer of health, Dr Tamika Henry, told Thursday’s...
One of the five women who were reportedly raped in St Ann in January has changed her account of what happened, according to Superintendent Dwight Powell, head of the St Ann police. Powell made the revelation during his report to the monthly...
After leaving high school without a single pass, Afara Pink could have become just another statistic on the conveyor belt of poverty and despair. But her steely will drove her to find a second wind after being blown off course. It’s that never-...
Female craft traders operating at Urban Development Corporation (UDC) locations across the island are to benefit from a grant donated by United Nations (UN) Women, the global champion for gender equality. A cheque for $3,172,814 was symbolically...
The mother of a 13-year-old girl who was drugged and raped after being abducted during an early-morning jog has expressed relief that her daughter survived the harrowing experience. The child is believed to be one of several victims of sexual...
The Issa Trust Foundation (ITF) on Saturday handed over personal protective equipment and medical equipment valued at US$286,529 (approximately J$40 million) to the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) in a ceremony at Couples Tower Isle...
