Milk River, Clarendon: Jeremiah Watson has no idea of his age. Reality seems to be something that has totally escaped him as he pushes his head through the makeshift door-window from the smelly shed he calls home. He babbles incoherently while his...
Walking into Andrew Nelson’s yard in Simon, Clarendon, the first sight to pull in wandering eyes is a wheelchair hoisted in a tree. It belongs to the 42-year-old who, although born without legs, climbs trees, does some farming and landscaping, and...
CHAIRMAN OF the Clarendon Coalition For Peace (CCFP) Anthony Smatt and chief executive officer of Taits Pharmacy Michael McLaren are combining efforts to ensure that the vulnerable in the parish get to fill their prescriptions free of cost. The...
LIFE IS tough for 58-year-old Effortville, Clarendon resident Louise Campbell. Survival for her is a daily struggle as she vends intermittently to put food on the table for herself and her 30-year-old daughter, who is battling sickle cell. Campbell...
LATE JAMAICA Labour Party Councillor Milton Brown has been praised as a committed community activist and a voice of fairness who sought to achieve bipartisanship amid fierce political rivalry. Brown, councillor for the Mineral Heights division and...
GLENMUIR HIGH School in Clarendon has formed an alliance with donors, locally and overseas, to alleviate the strain imposed on some families by the novel coronavirus. The virus has infected over five million people worldwide, resulting in more...
Pastor Emanuel Azan is a broken man as on Saturday his mother, Tilletha Hyde, lost her battle with COVID-19 at Jacoby Hospital in New York. It is particularly painful for him as his mother had always expressed the desire to be buried in her...
On Mother’s Day, the first call Jannett Foster would normally receive would be from her oldest child, Earl McKenzie. Last Sunday, May 10, was no ordinary Mother’s Day as she buried him the previous day. Foster’s son was shot and injured on March 2...
Latoya Rose used the last $3,000 she had to invest in 26 baby chicks and feed with the hope of turning a profit after they matured. Last Friday, as the Spaldings resident went to her coop to feed the chickens, they were all gone. “When I don’t see...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused several persons to lose their jobs, and for many, just putting food on their table has become a challenge. The May Pen New Testament Members Care and Outreach Programme shared with The Gleaner that even though they...
President of the Spaldings District Area Committee, Lascelles Simmonds, is a broken man. His dream of reuniting with his mother, Gloria Samuels, was shattered as news came that she died of coronavirus in New Jersey, United States. Simmonds, in an...
Thirty-six-year-old mother of four, Sashana Wilson, has always struggled to keep her head above water while raising her children – aged 14, 12, 10 and eight. Her task was further compounded with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the...
Patricia Garib, CEO of the Kaluga Institute and general manager for Kaluga Group of Companies, is calling on the Government, financial institutions and utility companies to give small businesses a lifeline to survive the coronavirus pandemic, which...
The Clarendon community of Mitchell Town is reeling from the loss of three of their own in New York in the United States as countries across the globe continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Among the three persons is Michelle Bennett, aunt of...
Easter Monday saw residents of Cornpiece, Clarendon, benefiting from the first COVID-19 mobile testing unit which was deployed to the community. The unit – one of six buses which were retrofitted for islandwide dispatch to enhance testing for the...
Barbers, hairdressers, cosmetologists and other beauticians are lamenting the heavy hit their operations have taken with the emergence of the deadly coronavirus in the island and the measures introduced by the Government to contain its spread. The...
Fisherfolk in Rocky Point, Clarendon, are reeling from a dramatic decline in business in what is traditionally a high-sales period as many Jamaicans see fish as the protein of choice in the Lenten season. But with the deadly coronavirus which...
With health officials announcing six new COVID-19 cases in South East Clarendon on Wednesday, making the parish’s 10 cases the highest outside of the Corporate Area, political representatives are moving to use their influence to assist residents...
As the island continues the fight against the deadly novel coronavirus infection, stakeholders in the May Pen, Clarendon, community have gone into the ring with the Government. Last week, William Shagoury, custos of Clarendon and chief executive...
MAY PEN businessman and owner of Shopping Mall and Trading Towers, Tony Smatt, has closed down the complex for two weeks, as he said he was putting the welfare of his staff as the top priority in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak. “Money can’t buy...
Pastor Orville Powell of the Power and Authority of Jesus Ministry Church in Denbigh, Clarendon was jolted from his sleep minutes after two yesterday morning with the news that the church was ablaze. The building has been burnt flat to the ground...
Chairman of the Police Federation, Sergeant Patrae Rowe, has criticised what he termed the apparent apathy of Jamaicans to violent crime as he addressed mourners at the funeral of a cop’s mom who was brutally murdered last month. Laetitia Francis...
The political machinery of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is expected to go into overdrive today as the party pulls out all the stops to ensure that Pearnel Charles Jr fills the void in Gordon House left by Rudyard Spencer, who resigned...
No more crying, no more complaining I believe Your word is true Lord You promised never to leave me lonely So this is what I’m going to do I will trust in You Lord - Anthony Brown and Group Therapy Whether in marriage or in faith, trust...
