Chairman of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, Norman Scott, has reduced the number of councillors who can physically attend general council meetings, a move he said is designed to adhere to existing protocols relating to social distancing....
A number of small farmers in Glengoffe, St Catherine, who have experienced losses in crops amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars due to the effects of the prevailing drought conditions, are now faced with the possibility of another natural...
Crowding at remittance outlets could cause St Catherine cases of the new coronavirus to spike, councillor for the Mt Industry division, Roogae Kirlew, has charged. Kirlew has also called for the regime of voluntary testing to be intensified. The...
With a growing number of students at home facing food shortages, principal of the Old Harbour High School in St Catherine, Lynton Weir, has devised a care programme aimed at assisting them. The students are forced to do homeschooling because of the...
A massive sanitisation drive was carried out by the Portmore Municipal Corporation in the Sunshine City yesterday in preparation for the thousands of residents who are expected to come out to shop today – the second designated day for getting...
A major initiative to get commuters and residents using the Waterford bus terminal to wash their hands before boarding buses and taxis has been launched in an effort to keep the coronavirus out of the community. Waterford is located in Portmore, St...
Dry pipes have been making it difficult for thousands of residents in Mount Industry, St Catherine, to maintain sanitation guidelines issued by the Government to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus locally. With frequent handwashing and...
Kasey Tulloch was wracked with disappointment as he pondered how death would rob him of his lifelong dream of becoming a pilot. Now, he has been given new wings. Tulloch’s diagnosis of chronic kidney disease in 2014 had pushed his mother, Mitzite...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) was criticised by councillors attending Thursday’s general meeting of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, who described the regulatory body as “useless”. Councillor for the Waterford division in Portmore...
Sleepless nights, inconsolable meltdowns, and existing in a state of denial characterise the daily life of Winsome Goulbourne, who lost her 10-year-old son, Leon Whittingham, little more than a year ago when he was shot in the head. Goulbourne is...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will expand its reach in the St Catherine North Division with the construction of a new police station in the suburban community of Green Acres, near Spanish Town. Ground was broken last Friday for the...
Several councillors attending Thursday’s monthly general meeting of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation were displeased with the garbage collection in their respective divisions, and accused the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA)...
A war of words between homeowners and a citizen association is threatening to erupt into a legal fight over gate access privileges at New Harbour Village II, a sprawling housing development in St Catherine. New security measures triggered by a...
While an autopsy is yet to be performed, the Catherine North police have determined that foul play was not suspected in the death of Wesley Suckoo, Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Point Hill division of the St Catherine Municipal...
Pauline Smith was a shadow of herself yesterday, crippled with grief at the loss of her daughter, 42-year-old bartender Patricia King, who has left behind two sons. “Why me, Lord? No, sah, not me. They took her from me. This is not right,” she said...
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday described as misleading Opposition claims that he has fudged data on the spiralling dengue fever epidemic, rejecting calls for his resignation as misguided. Tufton’s pushback was in...
As Tesha Miller was found guilty of accessory before and after the fact to the 2008 murder of then chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Douglas Chambers, residents and business operators in Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday pondered...
Faced with a population that has outgrown the school’s capacity, the St Jago High School in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Thursday launched its 275 Infrastructure Fund initiative, aimed at raising $275 million in the next five years to cater to...
Immediate Past President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Dr Garth Anderson has said that a change in a regulation by the Ministry of Education of not allowing 10 per cent of teachers from different schools to be granted study and...
Less than 48 hours after Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced a $1.3-billion mitigation programme to combat the deadly dengue outbreak, councillors of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation engaged in a sparring match, accusing each other of...
Seventeen-year-old Damario Patterson, an upper-sixth-form student at St Jago High School in Spanish Town, was on Monday declared St Catherine Municipal Corporation youth mayor for 2019 after outperforming six other youth councillors drawn from...
More than 40 fishermen who operate along the Rio Cobre have had their livelihood dislocated because of the contamination of the river from effluent that triggered a fish kill last week. The Government’s environmental watchdog, the National...
Some 200 homeless persons from Spanish Town were given what was described as “total care” by personnel from the Poor Relief Division of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, as the parish observed World Homeless Day on Thursday, October 10. The...
Councillor for the Waterford division in St Catherine, Fenley Douglas, has criticised the Ministry of Health and Wellness for contracting private pest control firms to assist the Government in its drive to combat the dengue outbreak. Douglas told...
The St Catherine Municipal Corporation at its monthly meeting on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to provide cash assistance of US$5,000 to aid The Bahamas in its recovery effort after being ravaged by Hurricane Dorian earlier this month....
