A man who went by the alias ‘Badness’ was shot and killed by unknown assailants in Golden Grove, St Ann, Sunday night. Dead is 56-year-old Alcan Rose, who is also known as ‘Bax’, of no fixed address. According to the police, residents reported that...
A bus with 23 passengers, mostly children, on an Easter Sunday holiday excursion to Ocho Rios in St Ann crashed in Fern Gully on Sunday, killing one person and injuring everyone else on board. Forty-nine-year-old Suzette Thomas, a housekeeper of a...
The family of 25-year-old Sashay Burke, otherwise called Keena, of Alexandria, St Ann, has expressed appreciation to the public for the assistance provided towards her heart surgery. Keena underwent successful life-saving surgery at the University...
The family of 25-year-old Sashay ‘Keena’ Burke is expressing appreciation for the public’s assistance towards her successful cardiac surgery. Burke, who is from the community of Alexandria in St Ann, underwent surgery at the University Hospital of...
Director of Nursing Services (DNS) at St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital Carmen Johnson and her team have expressed delight in the refurbished and enlarged space they now occupy at the health facility. Since February, Johnson and several nurse managers...
Over a decade after he rose to prominence, thanks to his roadside art gallery, the roadside artist returns to the place where it all started, better, more experienced, and a more focused artist. And suddenly, people are starting to remember the joy...
Two schools in St Mary are to benefit from the staging of the St Mary Kite and Food Festival 2024, set for Easter Sunday, March 31, at Buccaneer’s Jerk and Juice in Port Maria. According to promoters,RG’s Events, St Cyprian’s Kindergarten and...
In its quest to open 20 stores in Jamaica during its five-year contract with the Alabama, USA-based BirdShack Fried Chicken, local franchise holders, the Wayne Cummings-led Arya Holdings Limited, on Friday opened its fourth restaurant in Jamaica,...
Despite the slow turnout of voters, the minority leader in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, Winston Brown, was optimistic that the People’s National Party (PNP) would wrest back seats it lost to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 2016. “I am...
Twenty-two employees of Sandals Resorts, drawn from the company’s hotels across the Caribbean, graduated from the Sandals Corporate University (SCU) after completing the diploma in Hospitality Leadership programme recently. In his keynote address...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is to construct a two-storey market facility in Highgate, St Mary, to replace the current structure, as the government seeks to repair the country’s infrastructure. The Highgate market was...
In 2014 when Cool Corporation launched the e-commerce store, coolmarket.com, the vision was to revolutionise e-commerce in Jamaica and make shopping easier for customers. After a decade of being Jamaica’s leading e-commerce store, CoolMarket...
The family of 25-year-old Sashay Burke, 25, of Alexandria, St Ann is appealing for help to raise funds to enable her to have an urgent heart surgery. Sashay, also known as Keena, has been diagnosed with two holes in her heart which require life-...
Twenty-three deans of discipline, guidance counsellors, senior teachers and principals representing 10 high schools from across Jamaica completed a one-day workshop on programme development for behaviour management, at the Hibiscus Lodge hotel in...
In her own words, Nicole Clarke has been through “a tsunami” before finally reaching a point in her life where she feels she is finally settled. Well, almost. Molested at eight years old, pregnant at 15 and ending up moving from place to place to...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness believes collaboration between stakeholders is key to solving the region’s crime problems. Addressing the second annual security seminar hosted by the Office of the National Security Advisor, at the AC Hotel in St...
Will the February 26 local government election results for the St Ann municipality end in a 8-8 tie between the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) as it did in 2007? Neither side thinks so, with both expressing...
The series of town hall consultations on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), by Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr, kicked off on Wednesday in Browns Town, St Ann with the highlighting of problems...
Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Rungsung Masakui has hailed his country’s achievements on the occasion of its 75th Republic Day celebration, noting that sceptics at the time of India’s independence deemed the population incapable of building a...
“The key word is gratitude! Making sure some of the key influencers in my life know how much their input has positively changed my life and, in venturing down that journey, I was able to allow other family members to give honour and tribute to...
Rebel Salute 30 came to a premature end at Plantation Cove in Richmond, St Ann on Sunday morning after the police went onstage and ordered an end to the event, shortly after seven. It came at the end of I Wayne’s performance, and as Fanton Mojah...
This is a five-sister act, the likes of which have rarely been seen or heard of and, certainly, there’s no stopping them. The five sisters, children of Leon and Gladwin Johnson, who left Jamaica with their mother several decades ago as children,...
Jamaica’s first alleged case of suicide for 2024 took place on Tuesday when 19-year-old bartender Tameika “Nicky” Atherton reportedly hanged herself from a tree near her house in Islington, St Mary. But while media reports say the police have ruled...
STUDENTS OFTENTIMES excel academically when their parents, mothers especially, are employed to the school they attend. Michaela Lawrence of Marymount High School in Cromwelland, Highgate, St Mary, is one fine example. Her excellence, however, has...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is seeking to downplay comments he made about “hate speech” while speaking during a monthly discussion forum of the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, DC. During his presentation, Holness had indicated that to address the...
