For Manning’s School student Afrecia Samuels, being recognised as one of three top students in the region for agricultural science in the recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams came as a surprise. The 19-year-old student, who…
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents and business operators, including hoteliers who have been flouting building regulations in Hanover, have been given three months to get their affairs in order amid an amnesty and a stay of court action until next February…
Staff of the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland have been scolded for wrecking a multimillion-dollar wastewater treatment plant by dumping towels, sheets and other material down the drain. Last week, Eric ‘Busha’ Clarke, chairman of the…
Exhausted from cutting grass all morning, 33-year-old Lorden Deans sat down on the sidewalk in front of a Cash Pot outlet, his weed whacker idle in front of him, as he scanned the empty roadway that leads to Golden Grove Sugar Estate. The stretch…
Molly Rhone, the only Jamaican to be elected president of the International Netball Federation has expressed concern about some disturbing trends emerging in sports. From subpar the treatment of players to criminal abuse of them, Rhone said it was…
St Aloysius Primary School in Kingston is using a new strategy to help students with emotional issues, and according to guidance counsellor Tracyann Taffe-Thompson, it has been making a difference. Taffe-Thompson has been offering students the…
WESTERN BUREAU: Sixteen-year-old Campion College whiz-kid Kyle Pratt has aced the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics exam, scoring the highest grade in the region. Kyle, who was in fourth form at the age of 15 when he sat…
A protracted blaze at the Skibo Avenue premises of Jamaican Olympian Rupert Hoilett has raised fresh concern about Corporate Area water woes and the ability of the fire brigade to respond to emergencies. For hours yesterday morning, Hoilett stood…
The silence was deafening, the emptiness haunting. Almost an hour and a half had passed and not a single shopper had entered through the yawning doors of a modest mart in Duckenfield, St Thomas. Sugar’s slow, torturous death has laid bare a…
The community of Paradise in Norwood, St James, failed to live by its name yesterday as residents struggled to recover from shock after learning that only two of four siblings, all under nine years old and left home alone, made it out alive from a…