There was a pleasant surprise for Negril residents on October 7, when Reggae Grammy princess Koffee, dropped the video for her new single West Indies.
This was because, featured prominently in the three minute, breezy, celebratory track, were shots of...
Members of the Negril community are lamenting the lack of recreational parks and playgrounds for both children and adults living within the resort town.
“No green spaces; we are desperate in Negril for green spaces…,” retired intensive care nurse Elaine...
By Claudia Gardner:
Rusea’s High School’s Graduating Class of 1981, had a grand time on Campus II, a few Saturdays ago, when members of the cohort, many domiciled in North America and the UK, turned out in their numbers to...
By Claudia Gardner:
Principal of the Maryland All-age School Andria Dehaney and her compatriots Jodian Frame and Ayanna Suckoo, copped top honours for the parish of Hanover at the Governor General Achievement Awards, which was held virtually, on Thursday evening.
The...
By Claudia Gardner:
Seventeen years ago when Brian Brown represented Mount Pellier Football Club in the Hanover under-17 football competition at age 11, his coach predicted that he would make the Jamaican national football team, due to the good tackling...
By Claudia Gardner:
In December 2014, then Government Minister Lisa Hanna, at 38 years old, set Negril beach afire whilst wearing a two-piece orange swimsuit and a tee bearing an image of Reggae icon Bob Marley on the morning of...
By Claudia Gardner:
Negriliers came out to support the University of the West Indies’ Institute for Gender & Development Studies – Regional Coordinating Office’s ongoing campaign against gender-based violence and child abuse, on Thursday morning.
The initiative, dubbed No more silent...
By Claudia Gardner:
General Trees' Gone a Negril, is the biggest Dancehall song to have been recorded about the resort town.
It was one of two mega hit songs about Negril in a three-year span, the other being Tyrone Taylor’s classic, Cottage in...
By Claudia Gardner:
Many Hanoverians and non-Hanoverians alike, erroneously believe that the buildings at Fort Charlotte are the original Rusea’s School, founded by Martin Rusea in 1777.
However the late Supreme Court Judge Arthur Dickson, who was born and bred...
By Claudia Gardner:
I have been to the remote rural community of Seaford Town, commonly called ‘German Town’ in Westmoreland, just once so far in my life.
But, I must say it is one of the places that I instantly fell...
