Portland: THREE DAYS of torrential rainfall has resulted in damage to the basic infrastructure in Portland, triggering in the suspension of classes at some schools. The downpour, which started on Saturday, got more intense lasting into Sunday night...
BUFF BAY, PORTLAND Portland-based bottled spring water company Lifespan Limited partnered with students and residents for a major scouring of the Buff Bay fisherman’s beach area as part of the National Coastal Clean-up Day’s activities on...
Long Bay, Portland: Facing backlash from human rights groups over its handling of the most recent group of Haitians to land on the island, the Government has sought to clear the air. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, Information Minister Robert...
BUFF BAY, Portland: Approximately 500 needy students in West Portland were provided with basic back-to-school items, including bags, notebooks, pens and pencils, and presented with book vouchers at a special treat held on Friday in preparation for...
PORTLAND: Titchfield High School has managed to fill all but one vacancy after 22 teachers resigned from the Portland-based school for unspecified reasons during the summer holidays. Principal Richard Thompson told The Gleaner on Monday that the...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Fourteen-year-old Shaynel Hines of Titchfield High School has pulled off an impressive feat by securing distinctions in mathematics and additional mathematics at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level....
PEOPLE’S NATIONAL Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has lashed out at the Government for what he claims is failure on the part of the Andrew Holness-led administration to positively impact the lives of ordinary Jamaicans. Golding, who was...
Buff Bay, West Portland: People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has presented Doreen Forbes Campbell as the party’s prospective candidate for Portland Western in the next general election. Forbes Campbell will be seeking to end the...
DRAPERS, Portland: After three and a half decades of service, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard vessel Paul Bogle was retired as an artificial reef, fish habitat, and diving site in Portland after a brief ceremony on Sunday. The vessel,...
ROBIN’S BAY, St Mary: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that the 37 Haitians now seeking asylum in Jamaica will be treated fairly during their hearing. Chang, accompanied by representatives from several state agencies and civil...
BUFF BAY, Portland: FORTY-FIVE students who sat the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam from 24 institutions in West Portland are to benefit from a one-year full tuition payment for the 2023-2024 academic school year. This disclosure was made during...
Annotto Bay, St Mary: Citing the need to quell tensions among residents and to provide some level of entertainment for the people of South-East St Mary, Member of Parliament Dr Norman Dunn is banking on sporting activities to preserve the peace...
Bryan’s Bay, Portland When Eunice ‘Vicky’ Rashford, a returning resident from the United States, heard about a fine imposed by the court on Haitian nationals who recently landed in Jamaica illegally, she had only one thing in mind and that was to...
Boston Beach, Portland: Claiming they were fleeing hunger, civil unrest, and economic hardships, 37 Haitians, including eight children, who landed at the Boston beach in Portland, yesterday, told a harrowing tale of their desperate journey in...
Two Portland-based early childhood institutions last Friday benefitted from construction and donations through a collaborative effort between Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) and Food For the Poor (FFP). The joint-up initiative, which was...
MINISTER OF Tourism Edmund Bartlett is anticipating a favourable response from stakeholders and other interests in Portland to the Destination Assurance Framework Strategy (DAFS), which he says will greatly enhance the island’s tourism product.The...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Dr David Henry, a member of the Constitutional Reform Committee, has suggested that there should be a limit to the number of parliamentarians who are allowed to become ministers of government to allow for direct focus on...
BLACK HILL, West Portland: When family members, friends, and well-wishers gathered at the residence of Pastor Hector Mitchell at Black Hill in West Portland on June 12, to celebrate the 100th birthday of Minna Delores Evans, they were not prepared...
Rio Grande Valley, Portland Fifty-nine year-old Gilbert ‘Honest John’ Hall just missed out on what would have been a surprise Father’s Day celebration after a car he was driving plunged over a precipice and landed in a ravine in the Rio Grande...
BUFF BAY, WEST PORTLAND A family of 12 who had been left homeless after fire ravaged their home is to receive assistance to reconstruct their dwelling, amid appeals for even more help for basic supplies to get them sufficiently restored.The family...
Port Antonio, Portland Port Antonio Mayor Paul Thompson has declared that the clean-up of the razed Musgrave market must be completed in record time and within budget in order to ensure that more than 200 vendors affected by last week’s fire in...
The recreational centre for the elderly in Buff Bay, Portland, which fell into a state of disrepair, is now undergoing major rehabilitation work to restore the facility for use. The structure was built around 2001 through an initiative by former...
Port Antonio, Portland It took three fire units and five water trucks to contain an enormous fire that left three commercial buildings in ruin while rendering hundreds of people jobless in Port Antonio, Portland, yesterday. The fire, which started...
Following a timeline given by the National Works Agency (NWA) for the completion of the Chovy main road in Junction, St Mary, in July, Member of Parliament Dr Norman Dunn is optimistic that the corridor will provide significant ease to motorists....
PORT ANTONIO, PORTLAND: Commanding officer for the Portland police division, Superintendent Lloyd Darby, says that there has been an increase in serious and violent crimes in the parish since the start of this year when compared to the same period...
