Clarendon educator Donovan Rattray says his passion for teaching was ignited while working with at-risk students at a St Catherine-based high school. It was that passion, he said, that led him to being named the 2023 Association for Supervision and...
Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness has expressed optimism regarding the future employment prospects for Jamaican students, asserting that more than 90 per cent of them will have opportunities in the labour market. Alongside that projection, Holness...
“Chop har in a har #@$!” was reportedly the directive from 52-year-old Pauline Hugh-Smith as a group of women descended on a 14-year-old-girl along Holland Street in Denbigh, Clarendon, on December 30. Yesterday, the Clarendon Parish Court was...
Horns, lights, jakes and fireworks! Clarendon came alive recently, with the second staging of the Munk Garage Truck Show and New Year’s Eve party. The jam-packed Woodleigh Sports Complex venue in Clarendon saw hundreds of patrons and scores of...
A 52-year-old Clarendon woman is among six females taken into police custody in connection with the brutal December 30 beating of a 14-year-old girl along Holland Street in Denbigh in the parish. According to the police, a 15-year-old is also among...
The Island Traffic Authority (ITA) has indicated that a massive testing cohort, who recently sat the written exam to qualify for provisional (learner’s) driver’s licences, signals a ray of hope and is a stark representation of how serious and...
“Bravery is the power and the will to fight through that fear and adversity, which is what my teammates and I have been doing all season,’’ said Tavaun Coleman, vice-captain of Glenmuir High School’s football team. Coleman was addressing hundreds...
A SIGNAL of hope and sustainability was how principal of Glenmuir High School in Clarendon, Dr Marsha Smalling, described a recent donation of some 100 ornamental, and 50 fruit trees that will transform the school’s campus into a vibrant and...
Several canteen workers and school administrators have lauded the Mission: Food Possible (M:FP) initiative, which they say will have a positive impact on schools’ menu offerings and students’ diets. The initiative, spearheaded by food security...
POLLY-ANNA BAILEY say she was adamant to disrupt the negativity that permeated narratives around her central Clarendon community of Treadlight. But unbeknown to Treadlight’s unsung hero, the venture would earn her respect and national recognition...
Twenty-eight-year-old justice of the peace and former youth parliamentarian Marcellé Jackson was the youngest among 12 Clarendonians awarded at the parish’s Heroes Day Salute, Parade, and Awards Ceremony on Monday. Jackson was recognised for her...
Glenmuir High’s successful driver’s education programme got a major boost on Wednesday as the Clarendon-based school’s Parent Teachers’ Association (PTA) donated a 2017 Toyota Passo to expand its offerings. The school is the only secondary...
PASTOR ANTHONY Davis has sounded a trumpet, positing himself as the saving grace for the York Town division in the Clarendon South Western constituency. The division is currently headed by his fellow party member, embattled People’s National Party...
Waves of maroon flooded 10 Glenmuir Road in May Pen on Friday, as scores of stakeholders gathered to celebrate the Clarendon-based Glenmuir High School’s 65th anniversary, under the theme, ‘Glenmuir at 65: Creating Waves (Waves of Achievements,...
Lothan Cousins, the People’s National Party member of parliament (MP) for Clarendon South Western, is threatening to boycott tomorrow’s opening ceremony for the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000. According to Cousins, his planned...
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has pledged a series of infrastructural development across sections of North Central Clarendon. McKenzie was speaking to journalists on Thursday following a tour of the Clarendon North Central constituency...
Primary education teacher Richie-Ann Newman’s story of how her childhood was stifled by abject poverty moved listeners to tears on Wednesday. So bad were the circumstances that she recalled having salt water for tea, as it was all her mother could...
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says the display at the 69th staging of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show is a stark representation of the resilience of the country’s farmers and the agriculture sector....
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says a dysfunctional moral compass is crippling Jamaica’s justice system. Llewellyn, who was at the centre of widespread debate last week, also posited that those who operate within the...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding is claiming that a revamped and refreshed People’s National Party (PNP) is becoming increasingly appealing to Jamaicans and that the party’s surge in favourability in its recently commissioned Don Anderson poll is a...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has charged that the outrage accompanying the recently announced salary increases for members of the political directorate has stemmed from the standard at which the electorate holds the governing Jamaica Labour Party...
Some 80 residents across Clarendon North Central received their certification in masonry at the inaugural staging of the constituency’s career fair and expo last Thursday. The fair, which saw hundreds of patrons in attendance, was held at the Sir...
FREDRICK BRYAN, general secretary of the National Council of Taxi Association of Jamaica, has charged that defensive driving be among the prerequisites to attain a driver’s licence. Bryan was speaking at a recent road safety awareness training for...
A gruesome triple murder in the Grantham area of Frankfield in Clarendon on Friday night brought a chilling sense of déjà vu to residents in the central parish, having been racked by the gut-wrenching Cocoa Piece quintuple murder that saw the...
Clarendon centenarian Julia Rose-Campbell, who celebrated her 106th birthday on April 18, has died. Rose-Campbell, who passed away on May 26, last spoke with The Gleaner in September 2022 following the death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II,...
