A continuous downpour on Saturday afternoon failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the combined team of charity workers from Jamaica YES and America Airlines (AA) Caribbean Employee Business Resource Group, who erected a wooden playset at Belfield...
Students at Three Hills Primary School in St Mary are now benefiting from a fully equipped computer room built at a cost of nearly $5 million by Couples Resorts with funds raised at the company’s golf charity tournament. “The computer room is...
A combined team from Jamaica YES and American Airlines Caribbean Employee Business Resource Group will descend on Belfield Primary School in St Mary on Saturday to build a playground for the benefit of the 126 students at the institution, and the...
Twelve new students at Prospect College recently received iPads from the school’s benefactors, Peter Green, Alexander Green, and Andrew Green, to fall in line with other students and staff members who had previously received theirs. The news comes...
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Charlton-Alexandria in St Ann journeyed to St Mary on Saturday to join fisherfolk at the Rio Nuevo fishing beach in that parish in cleaning the beach, in observance of International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) Day. They...
The severe shortage of computers at the Tacky High School in St Mary has been eased with a significant donation from Food For the Poor (FFP). A fire at the school in 2014 left the institution short of several pieces of equipment and furniture and...
Following the launch of the Ministry of Education’s Safety and Security Ambassadors Programme in Region Three in May, training is set to begin next week in St Ann and Trelawny, which make up the region. “We are now about to start the implementation...
A week after The Gleaner published a story on St Ann artist Phillip Robinson, highlighting his talent and his desire to attend Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, he was accepted at the college on a full scholarship. It has been...
Several lawyers practising in Ocho Rios, St Ann, have been left shocked by the murder of 31-year-old attorney Sashakay Fairclough, who was shot and killed Friday afternoon in the Brook Green community there. According to the Jamaica...
Under the theme ‘Healthy Ageing Begins Now,’ the St Mary Health Department celebrated Caribbean Wellness Day 2019 on Wednesday with a ceremony at the Anglican Church Hall in Port Maria. The event, which is being celebrated across the Caribbean...
Scores of children and adults benefited from the annual health and social fair put on by the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Exchange, Ocho Rios, just in time for back to school. The fair, held in the community of Hand-to-Mouth in Exchange,...
For 28 years now, Pastor Alberta Boswell James of the Restoration of Life Mission in Christ Apostolic Church in St Ann’s Bay has been serving children in the parish through back-to-school and Christmas treats, in addition to other charity work that...
St Ann schools seemed to have had a seamless resumption of classes yesterday as the new academic year got under way. Two of the top primary schools in the parish have reported a smooth start, with their principals saying there were no major issues...
GAYLE, St Mary: Tacky High School in Gayle, St Mary, reopened yesterday but is still short of the several computers that were destroyed in a fire that ravaged a section of the building five years ago. “No, we have not received any computers,”...
The Dr Osmond Tomlinson Trust Fund Scholarship for 2019 has gone to Sheri-Ann Ashman, a student of St Hilda’s Diocesan High School, the second consecutive year that a student from the Brown’s Town-based institution was copping the award. It is the...
After a year in the post, principal of Marcus Garvey Technical High School (MGTHS) in St Ann’s Bay, Anniona Jones, has declared a new day at the institution and has set about making the school more reflective of the national hero in whose honour it...
In KEEPING with of its commitment to improving Jamaica’s health sector, the Issa Trust Foundation recently sponsored a two-day seminar aimed at helping the sector convert from film to digital medical imaging. The seminar, which started at Couples...
The Police Area Two Headquarters, consisting of St Mary, St Ann and Portland, has reported a six per cent reduction in serious crimes up to August 17 this year, compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The current figures also compare...
On Saturday, as St Ann remembered one of its national and international icons, Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, several observers expressed that enough was not being done in Jamaica to honour him. Dr Jahlani Niaah, coordinator,...
Phillip Robinson’s dream of attending Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts has come true. The talented artist from the rural community of Watt Town in St Ann, whose works have elicited overwhelming response since The Gleaner...
Moneague College’s Port Maria campus, located in Llanrumney Square, St Mary, is to introduce two short coaching courses in the new academic year. Campus Director and principal lecturer Delroy Granston told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the campus...
Seemingly brushing aside the saying, a king is without honour in his own land, Advanced Integrated System’s (AIS) CEO Douglas Halsall returned to the parish of his birth, St Ann, after 49 years away building a legacy, to be honoured by the St Ann...
Describing himself as the most unlikely Garveyite because of his mixed heritage, businessman James Moss-Solomon has urged followers of National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey to be faithful to the Garvey movement. Delivering the keynote address at the...
Friends think he is extremely talented, and even some strangers who have seen some of his work say that they are the best pieces of drawings they have ever seen. Recognising his artistic talent, Phillip Robinson, known as ‘Ramon’ in his community...
Imagine being encouraged to leave your job to take up a new offer, simply because you’re so good at what you do, only to be fired two days after starting your new job because, you were told, “you were hired at the wrong time”. Well, that is exactly...
