Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie says he aims to replicate artificial groundwater recharge systems in other parishes, similar to that at Innswood in St Catherine. The Innswood artificial groundwater Rechargeable...
Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie has put to rest one of the concerns often highlighted by residents of Portmore as it relates to lack of basic infrastructure, and has signalled the Government’s intention to construct...
Commander of the St Catherine South Police Division Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips has called for a more inclusive, community-based approach to fighting crime. “The aim is to meet with the different groups and develop an understanding...
Scores of enraged residents from six communities in St Catherine West Central joined taxi and minibus operators in blocking the Point Hill main road to protest the deplorable condition of the corridor, which they claim has gone unrepaired for more...
Mayor of Spanish Town Norman Scott has put forward what he described as a common-sense proposal for the opening up of the island’s entertainment sector. Scott, who has been a staunch advocate for the reopening of the sector, which has been in...
Embattled Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Troja division, William Cytall, generated ripples among his political colleagues when he switched political allegiance during a meeting of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation on Thursday....
Three men and a teenage boy who were killed in a reported firefight with the St Catherine South police in the Central Village community of ‘Zambia’ have been alleged to be gangsters who were wanted for various violent crimes. Acting on intelligence...
The police have partnered with operators at the Forum Fishing Beach in Portmore to crack down on crime, including the smuggling of guns and drugs. The beach-watch programme, which was launched two Fridays ago, is part of a wider neighbourhood watch...
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Everald Warmington has announced that more road rehabilitation projects will come to St Catherine North East this financial year. “I have been in the constituency four...
It is not very often that senior citizens are pampered by their juniors. However, this situation changed on Wednesday when over 100 senior citizens were treated to what was described as ‘Pampering volume four for Waterford seniors’. The event, held...
Breaking away from a mindset of hopelessness that oftentimes characterised stigmatised inner-city communities was not a difficult process for a number of young people in Spanish Town and surrounding communities in St Catherine Central, once they...
At least three sitting Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors in St Catherine have been dropped from the party’s slate of candidates to contest the next local government polls in the divisions they currently represent. One of these councillors,...
Identity thieves have cloned the social-media account of Courtney Edwards, Independence City councillor and minority leader in the Portmore Municipal Corporation, and sought to fleece contacts by soliciting $50,000 in investment capital with the...
THOUGH EARNING millions of dollars in foreign exchange annually, residents of rural Jamaica continue to question bauxite’s benefits to the communities where the refineries are located. Residents in Hayes, New Bowens, and a number of other rural...
The violence against women continues in Linstead, St Catherine, where another female was fatally shot at her business place in Time and Patience last Friday at about 6:20 p.m. by unknown assailants. The deceased, identified as 52 -year-old...
The National Works Agency (NWA) says the traffic build-up at the Naggo Head roundabout, currently being experienced by motorists and residents of Portmore after some $250 million was spent in 2019 to widen six kilometres of roadway along Port...
Residents of Cheesefield, Linstead, were in shock on Saturday morning after they woke up to the news of the gruesome killing of one of their own. The body of 44-year-old Nicola Sittal, a mother of four, whose youngest child is a one-year-old, was...
Residents of Cherry and surrounding communities in St Catherine West Central are frustrated that there seems to be no end in sight to their decades-long struggle to access water, with a planned initiative still yet to get off the ground. With...
Gunmen firing indiscriminately inside a shop along Featherbed Lane in Spanish Town Tuesday night killed one man and injured two others, including a 15-year-old Ascot High schoolboy who is hospitalised in serious condition. The incident, which...
The closure of the Treadways Health Centre in St Catherine more than two years ago is causing fresh concerns for residents, who are now calling for a new health centre with upgraded healthcare services to be constructed in the same space. Up to the...
There has been a strong demand for baby chicks since the pandemic started, triggered by more people going into chicken farming as a source of income. Hi-Pro Business Development Manager Dayne Patterson said the present demand is five to 10 per cent...
A festering family feud has been cited as the trigger for the fatal shooting of two persons in Dunkirk, east Kingston, on Friday evening. Two others were wounded in the incident, as gunmen reportedly targeted a wake about 7:45 p.m. Most residents...
Double amputee Cara Moore now has plans to expand her fledgling chicken-rearing business to a 500-bird capacity enterprise that she started after losing her legs to diabetes in 2016 and 2020. The 36-year-old graduate of the College of Agriculture,...
If the six students aboard the two trains that pulled into the Spanish Town terminal for the start of the new commuter rail service yesterday is any indication of its future passengerload, it could bring into question its viability, especially at a...
Mounting back taxes and health issues are suspected to have driven 70-year-old businessman Donald Anthony Thompson to have allegedly committed suicide overnight on Saturday, his wife, Paulette Thompson, has said. The elderly man, who operated a...
