Regional

Finally, a roof for blind senior citizen

BOSTON, Portland — Euval Williams used to have sleepless nights whenever it rained. Not any more. Neighbours and police personnel from his community, aptly named Friendship, got together to replace the leaky roof of the visually impaired senior citizen's...

'Safe travel' — firefighter's last words to colleagues who perished in crash

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — A young firefighter, Nicholas Nelson, broke down in tears as he recounted the final moments he spent with two colleagues who lost their lives in a motor vehicle crash minutes after they dropped him home and he wished them a safe trip.

Facelift for Ochi fire station

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — The Ocho Rios Fire Station is set to get an urgent facelift following instructions given by Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie, who has ministerial responsibility for the Jamaica Fire Brigade.

Fire victims sleeping in car get help

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Shadeed Harvey's faith in the goodness of others has paid off. Offers of help have flooded in since the Jamaica Observer highlighted her family's struggle after fire gutted their Cave Valley, St Ann house, leaving them to sleep in a motor car most nights.

Hurting for a Moderna jab

MONTEGO BAY, St James — When 41-year-old Paulette Jackson received her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a visit to Canada, she did not anticipate the trouble she would face in Jamaica in getting the second jab to become fully vaccinated against the deadly...

St Elizabeth SW constituents respond to MP Green's fall from grace

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Opinions varied, with ambivalence, regret, sympathy, and outrage being dominant themes, as constituents of former Cabinet Minister Floyd Green responded in recent days to his fall from grace.

Concerns about vaccine canvassing and preferences

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Jamaicans are being urged to take the first COVID-19 vaccine that becomes available to them as the country's death toll from the dreadful virus climbed to 1,772 yesterday.

COVID delays Mario Deane case… again

MONTEGO BAY, St James — For roughly the 10th time since it was first brought before the St James Circuit Court in 2018, the Mario Deane case was once again pushed back when the matter came up in court on Thursday.

Judge Horace Mitchell hailed as respectful, fair-minded

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth — Parish Court Judge Horace Mitchell was yesterday hailed by members of the Bar as fair-minded, even-tempered, and respectful to all.

Don't forget the disabled

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Arthritic, blind, and wheelchair bound, three residents of Granville who yesterday got vaccinated against COVID-19 are pleading for the Government to ensure that disabled Jamaicans can also get their jabs.

29 street lights repaired in St Elizabeth

TWENTY-NINE street lights have been repaired across St Elizabeth by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for the July to August period.

40 more beds for COVID-19 patients in Clarendon

MAY PEN, Clarendon — There are now 40 more hospital beds available to COVID-19 patients in Clarendon.

Despair!

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — It was almost too much for 24-year-old Akeba Martin to bear. In the early hours of Wednesday morning dogs found their way into her chicken coop and slaughtered 50 of the 178 birds, whose eggs she had planned to sell to put food on her table.

Legal action looms

HOPEWELL, Hanover -�Faced with a chronic shortage of burial space in the Hopewell Cemetery, chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporal (HMC), Sheridan Samuels, has warned that the local authority will be heading to court in an effort to rid the burial ground of...

NCB Foundation assists two St James schools with back-to-school needs

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Two St James schools are now better prepared for the new academic year, after recently benefiting from donations by the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation.