Founder and director of Great Shape! Inc’s iCare programme, Steven Stern, is advising Jamaicans to wear sunshades to help protect their eyesight. Speaking to The Gleaner during a free one-week eye care clinic in Mango Valley, St Mary, Stern said...
The North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) is today mourning the loss of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Annotto Bay Hospital, Marsha Lee, who died suddenly on Monday while overseas. Lee, who was 45, gave 27 years of service to the...
The Sandals Foundation has supported Breast Cancer Awareness Month with the donation of 140 mammograms that have been earmarked for women in rural Jamaica. The donation marks the foundation’s continued partnership with the Jamaica Cancer Society...
IN A move geared at uplifting their spirits, 21 residents of the Golden Age Home were treated to a day of fun at the Ocho Rios Bay Beach on Wednesday. Every quarter, the Kingston-based home for the elderly, which houses over 450 residents, takes a...
IN THE field of hospitality managers, Clifton George Reader is as five-star as they come. A 40-year veteran of the industry, Reader, a justice of the peace, and former president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), is currently vice...
When Carmen Lyn Johnson strolls across the stage at King’s House on National Heroes Day next Monday to be conferred with membership in the Order of Distinction (OD) for her service in the field of nursing, the award will not only be for her 33...
Five students of the Ocho Rios Primary School remained hospitalised up to last night in stable but critical condition after more than 60 of them were rushed to hospital after eating sweets containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a major psychoactive...
A man charged with the murder of a nine-year-old girl in St Ann last month escaped from the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital Saturday night while undergoing treatment. Just an hour later, two men were shot and killed in the nearby community of...
THREE-YEAR-OLD Shamonae Barnes of St Elizabeth had chemotherapy treatment for her cancer condition just hours before booking into the five-star Moon Palace All-Inclusive Resort in Ocho Rios with her family on Friday. Little Shamonae, and others...
On Saturday, Bernard Richards and his family handed over a cheque for $530,000 to fund a breakfast programme at Trinity Primary School in St Mary. The programme was launched as the first initiative for the newly created Princess Adunni Trust, named...
AFTER TWO decades in Kingston, Selena DeLeon has expanded her Core Fit Pilates brand to Ocho Rios, setting her sights on locals and tourists along the north coast with the Pilates model of exercise. Starting as Core Fitness in Kingston in 2002 as...
JAMAICAN BUSINESSMAN Loyal Haylett, CEO of IQH3D, a world-leading 3D company, has announced the groundbreaking development of a 3D monitor for medical, engineering, design, and gaming. Already on the market with several 3D products, including...
HOME-SCHOOLED from birth, 11-year-old Imani Hannigan and sister Kara Hannigan, nine, have won several gold medals in Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) dance competitions over the years, becoming a shining light for their parents,...
Administrators at two of the main high schools in St Ann have committed to maintain their institutions’ levels of excellence despite the teacher shortage currently affecting the education system. Principal of York Castle, Raymon Treasure, says...
The Everton Dawkins-led Jamaica Roots Theatre Foundation held its second annual Roots Theatre Awards on Saturday in Ocho Rios, inducting four stalwarts into the newly created Roots Theatre Hall of Fame. Garfield ‘Bad Boy Trevor’ Reid, Daphne ‘Mae’...
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has ordered that repairs begin urgently on the St Ann Infirmary and has pledged $50 million towards this, even as he admits that the Government is seeking to relocate the facility at a cost of some $100...
PRINCIPAL OF Marcus Garvey Technical High School, Anniona Jones, urged parents of Primary Exit Profile (PEP) students to teach their children how to be good citizens. As guest speaker at Moon Palace Foundation’s annual PEP Grant Presentation and...
PRINCIPAL OF the Windsor Basic School in St Ann’s Bay, Deborah Reid-Brown, is today expressing delight that a back-to-school treat and health fair were held at her school on Saturday, preparing her students for the new school term beginning next...
JAMAICAN AUTHOR Hortense M. Jenkins launched her latest book, Bellinda Bell, last Saturday at Tiki Tail restaurant in Richmond, St Ann, to an appreciative audience. Jenkins’ sixth book, Products from Under the Old Naseberry Tree, which was...
WITH A mission to ensure beach access to all Jamaicans, the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM) was launched on Saturday at the Buckfield playing field in Ocho Rios, St Ann, with support from stakeholders who were in a militant...
TEACHERS FROM 22 schools at various levels of the education system from St Ann are completing the Great Shape! Inc’s Teach the Teachers programme, currently under way at the Ocho Rios High School. Brad Adams, founder and one of the co-directors of...
JAMAICA WILL host Barbados in a game of blind cricket on Monday at the Discovery Bauxite’s Port Rhoades Sports Club in Discovery Bay, St Ann, beginning at 10 a.m. “The match is one leg of an all-island tour arranged by the Jamaica Visually Impaired...
FOR YET another year, philanthropist Ian Clough has brightened the lives of several children attending Exchange All-Age School in St Ann, along with their parents. After last year’s profound statement to The Gleaner that “life isn’t worth living if...
When Nicola Hamilton formed the Rural Women’s Developing Organization (RWDO) several years ago, to address some of the needs of women in St Ann, St Mary, and Portland, representational politics was not on her agenda. But thrust into the arena, she...
Nicola Hamilton has been confirmed as the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the Ocho Rios division in the next local government election. Hamilton was presented at the Ocho Rios Division’s annual conference held recently at the Ocho Rios...
