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Stories by Tamara Bailey

Raped, ravaged and roughed up by the justice system

Published:Friday | November 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Monica Artherina* had just graduated from university in 2013 and was fine-tuning arrangements to take up a few job offers overseas when her life started taking a turn for the worse.She not only failed to secure the overseas job, but in the process...

Thieves target NCU - Students beg for more protection from the police

Published:Friday | February 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

The violence in August Town, St Andrew, has left students at the University of the West Indies Mona campus and the University of Technology in fear, even though they know they are not the targets of the criminals.In Mandeville, Manchester, students...

Banker in Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud granted $1m bail

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Forty-three-year-old Banker, Radcliffe McLean, who was arrested and charged in connection with the fraud at the Manchester Municipal Corporation has been granted bail in the sum of $1 million.  McLean who went before Judge Desiree...

​Four firearms stolen from Manchester businessman's home in break-in

Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

The police in Manchester are reporting that four licensed firearms are now in the wrong hands after a house in the New Green district was broken into on Monday night. It is said that criminals entered the house of a businessman, broke into a...

Drainage nightmare - Mandeville flooding after least bit of rain

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

It is deemed the business centre of Manchester but after a little rainfall it is a swimming pool for the mentally unstable and a river for motorists and pedestrians.For years, the flooding on Ward Avenue in Mandeville has affected businesses and...

Car marts causing headaches in Mandeville

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

The over 50 car marts in and around the town Mandeville, Manchester, are causing concern for stakeholders and residents of the parish. President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Garfield Green, says the car marts are both formal and informal...

Dwyer-Powell reminds women they are powerhouses

Published:Thursday | January 4, 2018 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Mandeville, Manchester:Women have been deemed, the world over, as the weaker sex from time immemorial. However, this has been refuted many times as women have stepped up to the plate and done more than they themselves ever thought they could do....

Youth REAP benefits of a second chance

Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

MANDEVILLE, Manchester:What if every individual had one shot in life and failing meant they reached the end of their road? If that were the case, many of the successes witnessed today would have only been figments of our imagination.The non-profit...

Vox Pop: Sharing the Christmas Story

Published:Tuesday | December 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

This Christmas, while for many it will be the happiest time of the year, the reality is that for the less fortunate, they will be experiencing the blues. Unless, of course, others take time out to make them...

The Julie Ann Lewis story - Pt 2 - The birth of Julie's Escape

Published:Thursday | December 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Mandeville, Manchester:Last week, we introduced to you a woman of resilience, who through an illness referred to as secondary adrenocortical insufficiency (where a lack of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) prevents the body from producing enough...

Manchester business leaders mull SME development plan

Published:Tuesday | December 5, 2017 | 3:33 PMTamara Bailey

There have been countless meetings with regard to plans for the sustained development of the parish of Manchester to assist to small and micro enterprises. But, unfortunately, the execution of these plans do not always materialise.However, through a...

Percy Junor Hospital gets ER

Published:Tuesday | December 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Imagine having to whisper to your doctor whenever you visit the emergency room, out of fear that those in earshot will hear your business, because the wall between the treatment room and the waiting area is either extremely thin or non-existent.This...

Laura Bent, entrepreneur and trooper in her own way

Published:Thursday | December 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Hatfield, Manchester:"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."- Elbert HubbardWhen 27-year-old Laura Sade Bent found that the career plans she had made for herself were not...

Julie Ann Lewis’ defiant fight

Published:Thursday | December 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

"The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes."- C. JoybellIf...

Manchester SMEs prepare for international market

Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

MANDEVILLE, Manchester:Over sixty small business owners were recently engaged by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with JAMPRO, at an Agri-Business Expo and Workshop, geared towards business development and accessing export markets....

An Instagram message and a dozen roses -The Mulgraves’ love story

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Mandeville, Manchester:They met in 2005 while at university, but it wasn't until 2015 that an Instagram message, six red roses and six white roses set the tone for a beautiful friendship that later blossomed into unconditional love.Odale Mulgrave, a...

Yvonne Townsend gives up a life of luxury to help the less fortunate

Published:Thursday | October 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Mandeville, Manchester:She is a woman who has walked among kings and queens but has never lost the common touch.Her life, from a very tender age, was about serving people selflessly, skipping the pastime of 'dolly house' as a young girl, she spent...

Child artist inspires family to pursue art

Published:Thursday | November 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Mandeville, Manchester:When Benjamin Barrett, at the age of two, took to basic drawing and colouring, his parents could not have known that they had a child prodigy in their midst who would soon inspire them to unearth their own talents and build...

Court frees driver of bus in crash that left three students dead

Published:Wednesday | November 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Mandeville, Manchester:Gavin Linton, the driver of a Toyota Hiace minibus that crashed in April 2011, resulting in the deaths of three students of the Holmwood Technical High School and an adult, was freed of manslaughter charges in the Manchester...

'I had no one' - Pt 2

Published:Tuesday | November 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

"Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."- Unknown Last week, we shared with you part-one of the story of Brian Wright*, a young man with no parents, no home, and a longing to be given a...

Mandeville mourns slain cop - Two suspects to face ID parade as search continues for others

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Two of four men held in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Corporal Melvin Smith in Mandeville, Manchester, just over one week ago are to face an identification parade shortly.Head of the Manchester police, Superintendent Wayne Cameron, made...

Would a man rob God? - Pastor says too many churches are guilty

Published:Thursday | November 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

Manchester, Jamaica:How is it possible for a man to rob God when He is the provider for all that man is bestowed with? Pastor Thomas 'Hurricane' Bryan, the stewardship director of the Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, says to the...

Child killer sentenced to life

Published:Thursday | November 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

MANDEVILLE, Manchester:Expressionless was the face of 28-year-old Kayode Garwood, who was convicted of the murder of 11-year-old Tareek Gregory, as he was sentenced to life in prison in the Manchester Circuit Court yesterday.Garwood will have to...

'I had no one' - Part one of a story about how a former homeless orphan overcame despair and achieved breakthrough

Published:Wednesday | November 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey

His twenty-two years on earth have been far from favourable, having been abused, taken from his mother - who later died in the saddest way possible - separated from his sister, rendered homeless and growing up with no knowledge of his father's...

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