Walkers Wood – Garden Parish Outlook

Who Benefits From Bauxite Mining?

15/08/201904/09/2020Lemon Hall

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 regard to the green hills of Walkerswood and the level fields where cattle rearing and the planting of ground provisions […]

A Profile of St. Ann

28/06/2018Lemon Hall

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 recognized as the largest of all the parishes. It is known as ‘The Garden Parish’ for its bauxite, agriculture and […]

Hurricane Matthew is Coming

01/10/201604/09/2020symbolic

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” and placing the island under a hurricane watch. “This means that the following dangerous effects of a hurricane are expected […]

St Ann Reaping Benefits From New Highway

12/08/201601/02/2019symbolic

Initially, drivers were made to believe there would have been significant benefits in using the Mammee Bay-to-Kingston leg of the North-South Highway, but high toll rates might have put paid to that notion. However, there are still benefits to be derived from the construction of the highway when viewed from a wider perspective. St Ann’s […]

Back-to-school amnesty for St Ann vendors

27/07/201603/09/2016symbolic

ST ANN, Jamaica — Chairman of the St Ann Parish Council Desmond Gilmore announced on Thursday, that the Council will be giving all registered vendors in the three major markets in the parish a back-to-school amnesty. Registered vendors in the Brown’s Town, St Ann’s Bay and Ocho Rios markets are expected to benefit. Gilmore, who […]

NWC on a high in Sandals Business House Football

27/07/201601/02/2019symbolic

Former champions National Water Commission (NWC) began the quest to regain their title with a 2-1 win over last year’s beaten finalists Grand Bahia Principe in the opening match of the Sandals-sponsored St Ann/St Mary Business House Football Competition on Sunday. In a thrilling encounter, NWC team came from a goal down to take the […]

Are You a Returning Resident?

24/07/2016symbolic

If you are a returning resident the following information might be valuable to you. Why not see what other returning residents have gone through so you can stay on top of what you need to do? Imagine if you meet someone explaining the 30 steps they had to take, when you were thinking it was […]

Crowd Funding Gutter Cleanups

28/05/201522/09/2016symbolic

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 Man), when just close to Mongoose Tavern, and directly at the gate of Moon Palace (formerly Jamaica Grande Resort) an only Caucasian female stood looking […]