St Ann’s Lime Hall Community Club advanced to the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) after a 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over St Catherine’s Racing United at Drax Hall yesterday in their Jamaica Football Federation National Tier II second leg semifinal...
Dr Dayton Campbell, general secretary of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP), has blasted the performance of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as government. Speaking at the Ocho Rios divisional conference on Friday night at the Ocho Rios...
Incorporated in 2012, the New York, USA-based Mallskape e-commerce platform is seeking to expand its reach in Jamaica and the Caribbean, in anticipation of a growth in entrepreneurs as of next year. In January 2022 when a Jamaican television...
On Emancipation Day, Tuesday, August 1, Ayoka Davis, the Miss St Ann Festival Queen for 2023, is hoping to get the best birthday gift ever – the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen crown. For supporters, it would be a fitting tribute for the 25th birthday...
THE DRUM corps division of the St Mary High School Cadets got a huge boost on Thursday when a group of past cadets of the school presented their alma mater with instruments valued at over $1 million. The handover took place at the school, with...
THE MEN’S Health Fair hosted by the Jamaica Cancer Society St Ann St Mary Branch and North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) last Sunday in Ocho Rios saw an increase in the number of men examined for prostate cancer, compared to the 2022 event...
Browns Town High School in St Ann has had a rich legacy in music, from having the top school band in St Ann in years gone by, which has produced the likes of Digicel Rising Stars winner for 2018, Tasha Gay Solomon, and Celicia Ellis, who finished...
The St Ann Cricket Association is seeking to ensure that female cricketers at the primary school level get some amount of exposure by ruling that teams in the primary schools 20-over competition must field a female player or play one short. There...
HAVING BEEN in Western St Mary for close to two decades and not seen political representatives effect fixes that he believes the constituency needs, educator Errol Bascoe, nicknamed ‘Di Teacha’, is seeking to be a change agent as he aspires to...
IN HER own words, 52-year-old Winsome Reid of McNie district in south western St Ann, “struggled along the way to raise my (seven) kids” but has never given up hope that there would be a brighter day. In her younger days, she was forced to drop out...
Jamaica must increase water harvesting and make use of solar energy if the country’s agricultural sector is to perform at the level stakeholders wish to see, a bauxite official has warned the ministry of Agriculture. Kent Skyers, community...
As residents of Epworth district in southeast St Ann warmly welcomed the long-awaited rehabilitation and opening of its main road by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday, April 21, one special resident was absent. Centenarian Solomon Emanuel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ravaged by fire in February 2018, the 185-year-old St Ann’s Bay Methodist Church is now being targeted by robbers, who have broken into the building on several occasions in recent times, even as the church works to repair the fire...
THE TRAINING of educators in the new concept of positive discipline is gaining momentum, with over 50 teachers from 21 schools across Jamaica completing a one-day workshop on the topic at the Eltham Training Centre in St Ann on Wednesday....
PRINCIPAL OF Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in Alexandria, St Ann, Eloise Panton, says the school is back on track to producing musical excellence after a donation of some much-needed equipment, courtesy of Kaeru Studio, a reggae recording studio...
The Retreat Health Centre in St Mary is to be relocated as of March 27 for five months in order to facilitate renovation work on the facility, according to the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA). The clinic will be housed temporarily in...
Louis Grant, whose tenure as general manager at several Jamaican hotels during his more than five decades in the tourism sector, has been hailed as a pioneer in the sector in the wake of his passing. Grant, 86, reportedly died at his home in St Ann...
At 83, veteran actor John Amos is not giving up just yet and with his son, KC, is planning to do some work in Jamaica and showcase the island’s talents. Amos and KC and director Ricky Lee, who have all been in Jamaica for sometime, accompanied...
Jamaica’s culinary industry, already gaining momentum internationally, took a huge step forward with the launch of a research and development steam lab at the Heart College of Hospitality Service (HCHS) in Runaway Bay, St Ann on Wednesday, February...
Fire investigators going through the rubble of a burnt-out apartment to determine the cause of Sunday’s fire at Cardiff Hall in Runaway Bay, St Ann, on Monday made a ghastly find when they stumbled upon the body of a young girl who was apparently...
Elderly folk in St Ann and St Mary who are in need of medical attention will be able to avail of those services at home. Dr Jennice Baker’s JenMed Home Health Care Services has recently launched this new service to cater to the elderly. Baker said...
Several transport operators who attended a meeting called by the St Mary Police Diivision to discuss the new Road Traffic Act on Wednesday at the Port Maria Transport Centre vented their frustration at problems affecting them in the sector. “Some...
William Tatham assumed the position of director of cruise shipping with the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) in 1998 and after four years was shifted to the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) as vice-president in charge of cruise shipping. At the end of...
Moon Palace Foundation Jamaica, the social and welfare arm of Moon Palace Jamaica hotel, has increased its support of staff at the Ocho Rios-based hotel, with the introduction of its PHD Help Centre to assist workers’ children at the primary level...
For decades, Miss Annie hustled to build a solid foundation for her and her family, from selling stuff while in school to eventually opening Annie’s Mart in Pagee, Port Maria. She worked hard to send her children to high school, then to college,...
