THE TOWN centre to be erected on the grounds which once housed the Goodyear factory in St Thomas, is intended to reverse an unemployment spell that was cast on the parish when the facility was shuttered nearly three decades ago. This is the hope...
Residents of the western St Thomas community of Grants Pen have slammed the access route to the under-construction South Coast Highway as unviable, but the state agency tasked with the roll-out has rubbished the counterproposals as impractical....
Stakeholders in St Thomas are at their wits’ end with what they describe as the inefficient way in which the works on the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP) is being executed. Among those who have raised concerns are taxi...
Hefty input costs and the lack of a reliable tractor are atop the list of challenges being faced by farmers in St Thomas. The eastern parish consists of two agro parks, boasting a membership of 40 farmers who are all dedicated to intensive...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has indicated a keen interest in increasing productivity among farmers so that the industry can better cater to the needs of the local market. One of the areas in which he hopes to see this...
A common memory shared among the older residents of Port Morant in St Thomas is of the once-annual Regatta that would bring them all together. Established in the 1960s, the event took place on the shores of the community’s fishing village and...
SOME MINISTERS of the gospel on the international stage are calling for an intensification in sermons on the topic of sexual purity according to biblical standards. This charge follows the increasing popularity of the discontinuation of conversion...
Though excited about the long-anticipated resumption of face-to-face classes, the principal of Busy Bee Basic School in Yallahs, St Thomas, Eugenie Hayden-Allen, is admitting that the challenges that will come with the reopening cannot be ignored...
Residents of Barking Lodge in St Thomas are hoping that Ricardo ‘Mr Volunteer’ Burke will be able to fulfil their shared Christmas wish of building a new house for a needy neighbour, even as he executes customary efforts to bring cheer to his...
Caretaker councillor for the Morant Bay division, Wilbert Walker, has described the promises of First Heritage Co-operative (FHC) Credit Union to build a permanent office in St Thomas as an opportunity for progress in the parish. Walker was...
A few minutes off the Golden Grove main road in St Thomas lies a place of refuge for endangered species called the Holland Crocodile Sanctuary. And it’s crawling with more than 170 of them! A long, narrow, and rocky track leads to the wetland,...
AS ST THOMAS continues to record the lowest number of residents who are immunised against COVID-19 in Jamaica, the local health department is adapting new ways to tackle vaccine hesitancy in the parish. So far, according to health officials, only...
Olympic medallist Candice McLeod will be offering scholarships to two students of her alma mater, Morant Bay Primary School in St Thomas. She made the announcement during her first visit back to the primary school following the recently hosted...
Residents of Golden Valley in St Thomas are breathing a sigh of relief as works to correct a problematic earth drain in the community are under way. The residents, who have in the past protested its condition, shared that the gully has been posing...
DESPITE EXPRESSIONS of gratitude to the Universal Service Fund (USF) for establishing a hotspot zone in which community members of Seaforth in St Thomas will be able to access free Wi-Fi, some residents are mindful that their children will not be...
As Jamaica joins the world in commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, People’s National Party junior shadow spokesperson on gender, Krystal Tomlinson, is calling for lawmakers to reshape legislation to...
Councillors of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation are now breathing a sigh of relief following assurance from the National Works Agency (NWA) that the Roselle Falls will not be destroyed amid roadworks on the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has said that there are no plans to destroy the Roselle Falls in St Thomas as work continues on the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project. NWA Communications Manager Stephen Shaw gave the assurance amid...
A St Thomas mother on Tuesday relived a common nightmare following the murder of her daughter in a double killing that rocked the small district of Soho in the parish. This is the third of her five children who have been brutally killed. The first...
Though expressing gratitude for having copped the prestigious title of being one of four valedictorians for the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus’ 2021 virtual graduation, Police Corporal Kensley Shay admitted that he does not...
A NEW day dawned in special education as the Lyssons Centre of Excellence in St Thomas is celebrating the passing grades of two of its students, following the recently released Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate results. Seventeen-year-old...
As the community of Bath, St Thomas, grapples with fear as fugitive Davian Bryan remains elusive, the police have given the assurance that the search for the suspected child abductor continues. Commanding officer of the St Thomas Police Division...
The abduction saga that triggered fear and anxiety in the usually tranquil community of Bath, St Thomas, continues to wreak havoc among residents. Despite the bittersweet storyline of the rescue of two girls abducted days apart, children have been...
Forty-two year-old Levi Chambers condemned the separate abductions of two girls in St Thomas last week and expressed a desire for the perpetrator to be brought to justice. But in a cruel twist of fate, Chambers was attacked and fatally stabbed,...
Residents of Bath, St Thomas, are ruing that their goodnatured hospitality has come to haunt them as they cited betrayal on Sunday by the main suspect in the abduction of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and person of interest in the disappearance of...
