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St Ann homeless shunned shelters during Elsa

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Emergency shelters were empty here for much of Sunday while several homeless people milled about the forlorn streets during persistent rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Elsa.

Little Dunn's River vendors happy at tourists' return

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — The popular Little Dunn's River beach corridor in this resort town is coming back to life and vendors are thrilled. They anticipate that things will only get better now that tourists, whose purchases they depend on, are returning in increasing numbers each...

St Ann man living his dream of 'cheffing' up

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Winston “Tammo” Thompson spent most of his years working as a bellman at a hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann. He did his job well, but his heart was elsewhere. He dreamed of being a chef.

Portland Eastern eyes development through Boundbrook Industrial Estate

Residents of the eastern section of Portland are eyeing with delight the planned development of an integrated business complex at the Boundbrook Industrial Estate.

200 lbs of garbage removed from MoBay beach

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — As they kept a watchful eye out for inclement weather brought on by the approaching Tropical Storm Elsa, more than 60 volunteers still managed to remove more than 200 pounds of garbage from the Old Hospital Park Beach in this coastal city on Saturday.

Lesford McNeil going strong at 100+

RED HILLS, Westmoreland — People often associate the word century with things that are old and outdated but, surrounded by family and well-wishers, Lesford McNeil put those assumptions to rest last Thursday. He sat on his veranda alert and not looking a day over...

Another Road Safety Unit push to reduce crashes, deaths

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — With Jamaica recording 234 road fatalities as of June 30, director at the Road Safety Unit (RSU) Deidre Hudson-Sinclair is pushing for a safe systems approach to reduce serious injury and death resulting from crashes.

Chukka Good Hope ready for action again

GOOD HOPE, Trelawny — Buoyed up by an uptick of tourist arrivals, Chukka Caribbean Adventures, Jamaica's biggest attraction company, on Friday reopened its newly-transformed eco-adventure outpost here, which was shuttered for over a year as a result of the novel coronavirus...

Help for St Mary's indigent

HEYWOOD HALL, St Mary — Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie could not knock on the door to ask the elderly man living in a dilapidated wooden structure in this community if he could enter because the ramshackle structure has no doors.

Emergencies only at health facilities in south-central parishes

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Health services at facilities in three south-central parishes were severely impacted yesterday with almost half of the scheduled doctors calling in sick, reducing operations to emergencies only.

Services scaled back at CRH

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Services at Cornwall Regional Hospital in this parish were scaled down yesterday, according to senior medical officer of the facility, Dr Derek Harvey.

Silvera calls for PM's intervention with CRH 'shanty town'

MONTEGO BAY, St James — President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) Janet Silvera is making an urgent plea to Prime Minister Andrew Holness to move with alacrity to bring health-care services provided at the ailing Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) up to...

Stakeholders in Manchester bank on 'special touch of Jesus'

MANDEVILLE, Manchester – Stakeholders in this south-central parish say divine help is needed to resolve social ills and issues of violence, with the hope of becoming a model parish.

Canadian's Jamaica dream scuttled by COVID-19

RUNAWAY BAY, St Ann — In 1998 when Canadian Wendy Fletcher first set foot on Jamaican soil, a part of her automatically knew she belonged to the island. A fascinated Fletcher found herself drawn to the land of wood and water whenever she got the chance to...