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More assistance for Westmoreland couple helping children learn online

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland — Digicel Jamaica has joined the growing number of individuals who are supporting the Fosters Online School in Bullet Tree, Westmoreland.

Negril businessmen hopeful IWECo project will lessen morass fires

NEGRIL, WESTMORELAND - Stakeholders in Negril are hoping that a multimillion-dollar IWEco National sub-Project, aimed at rewetting the Negril Great Morass, will significantly reduce the recurrence of fires in that section of the resort town.

MoBay's Tahjna Myers gets into Howard University, parents seek help

MONTEGO BAY, St James -Nineteen-year-old Tahjna Myers, a former student of Montego Bay High School for girls, has been accepted at the illustrious Howard University in the United States in the clinical laboratory science programme for the fall 2021...

Celebrating teachers

Happy for it!

MONTEGO BAY, St James - After last year's sudden cancellation of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships (Champs) and the ups and downs of the high schools track and field season, the recent news that...

Rotary Club of Montego Bay donates tablets to needy students

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The Rotary Club of Montego Bay last week donated 10 tablets to needy students from St James under its tablet distribution initiative.

'WELCOME MOVE'

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James Police Division is to restore the police post at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay by the end of this month, in the wake of the alleged beating of a vendor at the facility by a security guard.

Man, wife shot dead in Portland

MANCHIONEAL, Portland — Linval “Natty Cowhead” Lindsay, 55, and his wife Annette “Plummy” Carby-Lindsay, 60, were yesterday shot and killed at their their home in the quiet district of Barracks, overlooking the fishing bay of Manchioneal.

Hanover 4-H Club donation

Rhooms wins MEAC men's triple jump title

Former Cornwall College athlete Kobe-Jordan Rhooms won the Mid-Eastern Athletics Conference (MEAC) men's triple jump title at last weekend's outdoor track and field championships hosted by North Carolina A&T University.

Frustrated residents slam NWC over water woes

PALMER'S CROSS, Clarendon — Residents of Kennedy Grove housing scheme here are frustrated about inconsistent water supply that, they say, has been affecting their hygiene and sanitation efforts, compounded by poor communication from the National Water Commission...

Sandals South Coast celebrates nurses

With their gifts of appreciation from Sandals South Coast, nurses (from left) Sasheva Lewis, of Omega Medical, and Shanice Vickers, Tader Suban, and Tavia Smith of Athena Medical pause for a photo op on their way from a celebratory luncheon in their honour ahead of International Nurses'...

Jamaicans reminded to report suspected cases of child abuse

MONTEGO BAY, St James – Regional director of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), North East Region, Carolyn Stewart is encouraging all Jamaicans to report suspected cases of child abuse.

Scores line Mandeville street for procession of former Manchester custos

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Members of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) Manchester chapter and employees of the Consolidated Health Services lined a section of Caledonia Road in Mandeville to get a glimpse of a procession for the late Dr Gilbert Allen last...

Children's agency tours St Ann while buggery accused remanded

AS the five men charged with buggery in relation to a 13-year-old girl in St Ann last week made their first appearance in court on Friday, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) led a motorcade throughout several communities in the parish.