Although not currently on the local police’s radar for any crime, 53-year-old Dean ‘Boobie Skeng’ Cooke, who was among Jamaicans seeking illegal entry into the United States by boat last week, has reportedly been in and out of prison for most of...
A 38-year-old taxi operator who endured two days of threats and was reportedly taunted by mobsters at shallow graves with worm-infested human remains has been freed after his family paid a $400,000 ransom. Now he is living in fear that they will...
Relief came on Friday for 43-year-old Charmaine Lewis of Pedro district in Point Hill, St Catherine, when she was handed the keys to a new three-bedroom house under the Government’s Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme....
Rastafarians from across Jamaica gathered yesterday to celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the birth of their founder, Leonard Howell, at Pinnacle in St Catherine. It is the site where they claim Howell had acquired over 500 acres of land for...
George Bryce, a 67-year-old farmer of Springfield in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, is livid about the plunder of his livestock by praedial thieves. Just recently, he said he lost seven cows – three bulls and four heifers – one of them valuing more than...
Burials may be resumed today at the Meadowrest Memorial Park in St Catherine after a pay dispute sparked a worker walkout on Thursday, forcing scores of mourners to turn back without their dead being interred. Four of the 18 burials scheduled were...
With state-owned hospitals coming under increased criticisms about unsatisfactory service and care, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton on Wednesday called for a national reflection on public health. “Our role is in the service of...
The Gore Family Foundation has initiated a special internship programme to benefit 15 at-risk youth between the age of 16 and 24 from Rose Town in Kingston, who will then return to their community to execute a redevelopment project. Under the Rose...
A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helicopter made a precautionary landing on farmlands in Dunbeholden, St Catherine, about 2 p.m. yesterday. According to the army, the helicopter was being flown by a student pilot, who was stable and had no apparent...
One woman died and nine others were hospitalised as a result of a two-vehicle collision along the Bog Walk Gorge about 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Reports are that 59-year-old Valerie Ennis, of Linstead, was travelling westerly in a white Toyota Hiace...
Despite Jamaica being a long way from acquiring herd immunity, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is forecasting some level of normality here by year end. While observing the administering of second doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca...
The start of the 2021 hurricane season has brought new fears to some residents of the Sunnyside community in Linstead. Due to the frequency of flooding in the community over the years, the residents are fearful that heavy rains associated with any...
AGAINST THE background of an annual consumption of 10 million kilogrammes of onion in Jamaica, of which nine million kilogrammes are imported, Agriculture Minister Floyd Green said the ministry has set itself a target to increase onion production...
MORE THAN 1,000 pensioners in Spanish Town, St Catherine, who conduct businesses at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security parish office on Hanover Street will now have easy access to the upper floors of the three-storey building. An elevator...
JAHEIM HARRIS’ affinity for mathematics started back in basic school and continued at the Angels Primary School, where he got perfect scores in the subject throughout, and participated in numerous mathematics competitions as well as the Schools’...
Approaching the Church Pen Cemetery in Old Harbour, St Catherine, the well-kept vaults at the entrance to the facility give the impression of a well-maintained public cemetery. However, the ambience changes drastically halfway down the narrow...
The Ewarton Police Station in St Catherine received a much-needed facelift last Saturday as six service clubs in the parish bonded to carry out refurbishing work at the facility. The station, which was not listed in the government’s $235-million...
In the eerie stillness, dense air and surrounded by pitch darkness, St Catherine firefighter Dennis Taylor wondered to himself after descending in the 55-ft hole if he could survive two minutes, let alone four nights in those conditions. The 38-...
Despite past efforts by the Government to supply 2.4 kilometres of galvanised pipes and the renovation of steel tanks to improve the Bartons water supply in St Catherine, residents are suffering from an economic fallout due to a prolonged water...
The discolouration of a section of the Rio Cobre that triggered alarm among residents of Bog Walk on Monday has been downplayed by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). The agency said a team of investigators responded to the...
Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott has thrown his support behind the Government’s e-commerce National Delivery System (ENDS), and is now calling for the platform to be expanded to include corner shops, groceries and more small restaurants. Speaking at...
There has been an outpouring of grief among councillors in the Portmore Municipal Corporation following the death of the Greater Portmore East Division standard-bearer, Yvonne McCormack, last Friday. The passing of McCormack, who had been serving...
The 14-year-old girl who was slain in a jealous rage by a 20-year-old who obsessed over her had engaged in acts of self-mutilation and even went missing in an apparent cry for help. That is the account of Cooper’s stepfather Andre Stewart, who told...
Andre Stewart, stepfather of Danesha Cooper – a 14-year-old Jonathan Grant High student, who died in the Kingston Public Hospital from stab wounds on Monday – said he had tried to prevent the relationship she had with her alleged 21-year-old killer...
Looking to the clock and waiting for distances in the jumps and throws to be posted were once the picture-perfect frame of anxiety that captured an athlete’s wonder at placement. Now, athletes from dozens of schools are anxiously awaiting the...
