North & East

St Hilda's High gets greenhouse

ST Hilda's High School in Brown's Town, St Ann is the latest school in the parish to be equipped with a greenhouse.Noranda Bauxite recently handed over the greenhouse to the school along with a donation of romaine lettuce plants and seedlings. Read More

Hoolebury Primary gets much-needed facelift
HOOLEBURY Primary School in Scarlett Hall, St Ann, recently received a much-needed facelift through the Bahia Principe Jamaica Resort Corporate Social Responsibility programme.... Read More

100 and counting for Irene Massop
IRENE Massop is thanking God now, more than ever, that she has joined club 100.The centenarian celebrated her birthday on Friday but was honoured the following day by family members and friends at Free Hill Presbyterian Church in St Mary.... Read More

59 road deaths
FIFTY-NINE people died as a result of injuries they sustained in road crashes across northern and eastern parishes last year, a report from the Ministry of Transport and Mining's Road Safety Unit (RSU) has outlined.... Read More

PHOTO: Facelift

Monday, January, 7 2019

Hoolebury Primary School in Scarlett Hall, St Ann gets a much-needed facelift. Read More

Portland families get early Christmas gifts

Monday, December, 24 2018

ON December 16, Herboo Corporation Limited visited 18 families in Port Antonio, Portland, where groceries were distributed as part of the start-up company's Christmas project. Here are some highlights: Read More

Diamond residents to be relocated in 2019

Monday, December, 24 2018

IF Member of Parliament for Portland Western Daryl Vaz has his way, residents of Diamond, an informal settlement in Buff Bay, will be relocated to the Lennox community by next year. Read More

St Mary shines

Monday, December, 24 2018

Owen Speid (left), president-elect, Jamaica Teachers' Association, presents the Principal of the Year Finalist plaque to Evorine Henry-Tracey, principal at Brimmer Vale High School in St Mary, during the 2018 LASCO Ministry of Education, Youth & Information Teacher and Principal of... Read More

10 years no job …now entrepreneur

BY KIMONE EDWARDS Observer writer | Monday, December, 24 2018

FOR more than 10 years, Bellinda Hall sat at home doing nothing. She was unemployed and destitute.That changed, however, when the 43-year-old woman said sat back and remembered how diligently her mother worked to put food on the table. Read More

Jeffrey Town women can do it all

Monday, December, 10 2018

WIDESPREAD unemployment and a lack of male presence in some households in Jeffrey Town, St Mary, drove the idea of a women's group, the backbone of Jet Town Products, to fruition four years ago. Read More

23 gang members apprehended in St Mary, St Ann, Portland

Monday, December, 10 2018

MINISTER of National Security Dr Horace Chang has commended members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for continuing to “take the fight” to gangs in communities across the island. Read More

Highgate Primary crowned Stanley Amritt champions

Monday, December, 10 2018

Highgate Primary School were crowned Stanley Amritt Primary School football champions after defeating Lewisburg Primary School 2-0 on Friday at the Richmond Community Centre football field in St Mary. Read More

Food for Jamaica

BY KIMONE FRANCIS Observer staff reporter francisk@jamaicaobserver.com | Monday, December, 10 2018

THE passage of Hurricane Ivan along Jamaica's south coast in September 2004 left residents in Jeffrey Town, St Mary, without food for weeks. Read More

Unfertilised food key to long life, says centenarian

BY EVERARD OWEN Observer writer | Monday, November, 26 2018

ALFRED Patterson spends most of his time in the House of the Lord. Read More

Committed teachers

BY RENAE DIXON Observer staff reporter dixonr@jamaicaobserver.com | Monday, November, 26 2018

PRINCIPAL of Horace Clarke High School in Islington, St Mary, Christopher Walker says the school has been seeing significant improvement in academics despite numerous setbacks due to limited resources. Read More