Garden Parish Outlook – The Garden Cities of The Garden Parish

Farming

Jamaicans Urged To Do Farming

When contemplating her career path as a youngster, Citerina Atkins did not have farming on her list of options, but three years into her journey as a member of the agricultural sector, she is now [more..]

A Rule Of Law And Background In Jamaican Economics

09/08/2020 0

English planters seized Jamaica from Spain in 1655 and established a plantation economy based on slave labor. The island gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1962. Long-standing recurrent violence among powerful organized crime networks [more..]

Will Surrounding Cities Benefit from Development of Dunn’s River Falls?

15/08/2019 0

The continued development of the Caribbean’s number one attraction – Dunn’s River Falls – should enable the resort town of Ocho Rios to benefit more from the cruise and stopover arrival markets. Located in Ocho [more..]

Sewage Work At Puerto Seco Beach – Discovery Bay

03/09/2016 0

The Discovery Bay Community Development Committee (D/Bay CDC) is calling on the National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), to ensure sewage works at Puerto Seco Beach, do not damage the beach or its surrounding environment. The [more..]

Changes At Top in St Ann Police

01/10/2016 0

Business people and other residents in St Ann are waiting on the police high command to confirm reports that there has been a shakeup of the high command in the parish with the departure of [more..]

Scholarships and Bursaries to Students in St. Ann and St. Mary

17/08/2016 0

Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Shahine Robinson, has lauded First Regional Co-operative Credit Union for presenting scholarships, bursaries and book grants to 21 high-school and tertiary-level students from the parishes of St. Ann and [more..]

Health

Who Benefits From Bauxite Mining?

15/08/2019 0

Bauxite mining has now arrived in Walkerswood, Saint Ann. There is large scale mining of bauxite taking place to the east and south of Walkerswood. The bauxite company is carrying out its activities with no [more..]

Things

Fire Dept: Hydrants At Vista Del Mar Cannot be Used

15/08/2019 0

Serious risk is faced by one of St Ann’s most developed upscale communities which is without a useable fire hydrant. In fact, Head of the St Ann Fire Service, SuperintendentAnthony Hines says what passes for [more..]

Cultural

2019 Annual International Jazz Fest, Ocho Rios St. Ann

17/04/2019 0

Before you attend the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival it’s important to know the basics about the history of jazz. Jazz/classic blues are actually music innovation of the early 1900s. However, certain traits actually originated from [more..]

Aabuthnott Board Resigns!

11/04/2015 0

The Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in St Ann is to get a new board following the resignation of the members. GPO understands that the Board resigned due to several disagreements with [more..]

Beach Life For Beach Bums

28/05/2015 0

Do you want to be a beach bum in Jamaica? It’s easy, just be in Jamaica, appear on a beach – any beach – smile and communicate with anyone you [more..]

Crowd Funding Gutter Cleanups

28/05/2015 0

I was walking up main street in Ocho Rios sometime last week, admiring all the offerings from cigar selling shops to money exchange sites and underground money exchange personnel (Dollars [more..]

Farming For a Community

28/05/2015 0

Farming For Visitors

28/05/2015 0

14,000 Farmers Registered with RADA in St. Ann Farmer registration in the parish of St. Ann is progressing smoothly, with more than 14,000 farmers registered with the Rural Agricultural Development [more..]

A Profile of St. Ann

Alexandria

28/06/2018 0

Parish Name: St. Ann Capital: St. Ann’s Bay Land Area: 1,210.25 sq km (467.3 sq mi) Population: 173,232 History St. Ann was named after Ann Hyde, wife of James II, King of England and is [more..]

BROWN’S TOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE GRADUATION 2016

Browns Town

15/12/2016 0

Brown’s Town Community College (BTCC) hosted its graduation ceremony for the class of 2016 on Thursday, November 17, at the main campus, in Brown’s Town, St Ann. The ceremony was hosted under the theme “Committed [more..]

Alexandria

Aabuthnott Gallimore High Aims to Improve Math Average

19/10/2016 0

Head of the Mathematics Department (HOD) at Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in St Ann, Daphne Hall-Brown is determined to improve the school’s average in mathematics for the next academic year. The subject, Hall-Brown said is [more..]

Browns Town

Courts Furniture Store Upgraded

01/10/2016 0

Courts, which recently launched its new Ashley store in Liguanea, St Andrew, has continued to invest in its retail outlets with the upgrade of the store in Ocho Rios, St Ann. The store has a [more..]

Alexandria

Hurricane Matthew is Coming

01/10/2016 0

Jamaica’s emergency management agency started deploying supplies to shelters yesterday as Hurricane Matthew gained strength while churning across the warm waters of the central Caribbean, resulting in the Meteorological Service labelling the cyclone “extremely dangerous” [more..]

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