Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton warned residents of St Ann on Saturday about a possible lockdown if breaches of coronavirus laws and recommendations continue. St Ann has seen a rise in conoravirus cases over the past few weeks, with six...
The St Ann police have confirmed one report of rape in Ocho Rios since the start of the year, and are urging any other such victim to report the matter, as some residents began to express fear following a social-media post alleging four incidents...
The Kiwanis Club of Charlton-Alexandria in St Ann continued its service to children recently with the donation of six tablets, with SIM cards, to students from several schools across the parish. Club members also put in some physical labour by...
When next you drive across the White River bridge at the St Ann and St Mary border, take some time out and go have a look under the bridge; you will be pleasantly surprised. There you will see ordinary Jamaicans trying to make a living on a daily...
The Gleaner team stepped off the main road in Annotto Bay and headed down several flights of stairs into Vincent Maragh’s yard. We were now level with the Pencar River, which was just a mere three feet away from one of several houses in the yard...
The Otram river, which flows through the centre of the St Mary capital of Port Maria, is the main reason why the town has been flooded on several occasions and remains of great concern to residents in and around the town. Over the years, business...
Tears rolled down the face of Norma Walters as she watched her former schoolmate’s daughter being sworn in on Wednesday as vice-president of the United States. Walters, who attended school alongside Donald Harris decades ago in the northern Jamaica...
Chairman of the St Ann Municipal Corporation (SAMC) and mayor of St Ann’s Bay, Sydney Stewart, says the corporation is to investigate claims that there are unauthorised mining operations in the parish. The disclosure comes after enquiries by The...
Forced out of its home at Jail Lane, St Ann’s Bay, because of increasing rental cost, the 30-year-old Restoration of Life Mission in Christ Apostolic Church is nevertheless continuing its outreach programme, and in fact has increased it since the...
The North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) has opened a condolence book in memory of its late board chairman, Tyrone Robinson, who died in the United States of COVID-19 complications on New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1. In a release, NERHA...
A woman who purchased a house from the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) in the Savannah Vista development in Runaway Bay, St Ann, is blasting the agency for the deplorable condition the house was delivered in, and is adamant that she will not pay an...
The death of North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) Chairman Tyrone Robinson from COVID-19 in Florida in the United States has sent shock waves throughout the local health sector. The 58-year-old Robinson had been a respected and beloved...
ST ANN: Can we forget about COVID-19 for a while and just open our hearts and celebrate the season for giving, by giving? Well, that was the sentiment of several persons and institutions in St Ann during the period leading up to Christmas, with...
Marymount High School’s Holiday Helpers hit the trail recently to bring holiday cheers to residents in communities close to the St Mary-based school. An annual event spearheaded by students since it was first introduced in 2012, the practice...
The Oracabessa Foundation, assisted by Chris Blackwell, has come to the assistance of six basic schools in Oracabessa, St Mary, in their efforts to meet the requirements by the Government to reopen in 2021. The six basic schools are: Oracabessa...
Less than 24 hours after the father of her three-week-old baby was murdered in his restaurant in Discovery Bay, St Ann, Shante was still in a state of shock, her life torn apart by the brutality of the act. With the baby in her arms, she sought to...
The off-duty cop accused of fatally shooting 43-year-old Glester White in St D’Acre, St Ann, on Sunday has been removed from front-line duty as the police and the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) carry out their probes. The...
Despite a water shortage limiting face-to-face classes to just three days last week at Oracabessa High School in St Mary, principal Natrecia Lothian has labelled the first week a success. A problematic pump at the National Water Commission...
Grand Market activities on December 24 will be greatly reduced in the major towns in St Ann, namely, St Ann’s Bay, Ocho Rios and Brown’s Town, in order to minimise the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 disease. Addressing the monthly general meeting...
There has been a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases in St Ann over the last three months, according to the St Ann Health Department. Senior Public Health Inspector Leroy Scott told the monthly general meeting of the St Ann Municipal Corporation...
Sandals Foundation has delivered 28 tablets to the Ocho Rios Primary School in St Ann to serve grade six students, who are just above the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education programme threshold, but whose needs were assessed and...
Fitzroy Wickham’s selection as the 2021 Rhodes Scholar has put the York Castle High alumnus among prestigious company as he joins a list of outstanding Jamaicans who have been awarded the honour over decades. Wickham’s success, however, has come...
Despite an apology and a suggestion that a patient be returned to the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital for proper care, a traumatised family is unmoved after a woman believed to have been inflicted with COVID-19 was allegedly neglected, causing her...
The blurred yet graphic photograph of five-year-old Mickele Allen, his hands and feet lacerated and scalp blood-red from a ferocious attack by a pack of hounds, will embolden Justice Minister Delroy Chuck to press through passage of the new dog-...
A five-year-old boy is battling for his life in the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital after being mauled by dogs in St D’Acre, near Alexandria, on Sunday. He has been identified as Mickele Allen of a St D’Acre address in St Ann. The St Ann police...
