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Old Harbour tax office to reopen September 8

The St. Catherine-based office will reopen with a skeleton staff complement after sanitization activities and staff self-quarantining in the…

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Jamaican lobby group ‘fact checks’ Dr Ramon Arscott’s Covid-19 vaccine presentation

However, the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS), have been among the very few to challenge some claims

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Samuda urges Warmington to lobby for increase vaccination access

Since the arrival of vaccines in the country, Old Harbour has been one of the select locations for vaccination blitz, conducted twice weekly…

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Covid forces closure of Old Harbour tax office

The tax authority has taken the decision to close its Old Harbour operations due to the confirmation of several positive Covid-19 cases at…

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Body of missing Bartons man found in river one week later

He's suspected to have drowned in the Corner Gully River in the community on August 25.

At that time several persons in the…

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DCP Richard Stewart: National honour evokes sense of pride

DCP Stewart, who grew up among locals in the Nightingale Grove community of St Catherine South West, is among 144 Jamaicans to be honoured at…

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Hospitals low on oxygen

Up to this morning, all hospitals were low in supply and some were out and had to be supplemented. At the same time, hospitalisations for…

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Search continues in river for Bartons man

Missing is Hakeem Robinson who his sister describes as a jovial, hardworking young man who gets along with just about everyone in the…

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Body retrieved from fire at Old Harbour home

The charred remains are believed to be that of Madge Davis, who lives alone at the premises.

A DNA forensics analysis will be…

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Reports of flooding amid severe weather alert

The police are advising motorist travelling into Kingston to avoid the eastbound lane of Marcus Garvey which is now impassable.

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Jamaican parents rush to sign petition against “vaccine coercion”

More than 9,700 persons have already affixed their names to an online petition launched yesterday by the lobby group Jamaica Coalition for a…

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Local business helps Old Harbour residents to cope during ‘no movement days’

This is courtesy of the immense goodwill of local business Koncept Appliance and Furniture in ensuring that the less fortunate among us will…

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Woman seeks help after losing documents in Old Harbour

Jamelia Harriott informed Old Harbour News that she lost a black folder Tuesday. In the folder are CXC certificates, her birth certificates…

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Motorists trapped in Freetown

Information reaching Old Harbour News is that between the popular Rasta Corner and the gully bordering St Catherine and Clarendon at the Salt…

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Nightingale Grove flooded

Late this afternoon, residents were forced into evacuation mode as fast rising waters from the Coburn Gully came over on to the streets.…

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TS Grace to dump 4-6 inches of rain on Jamaica

This as Tropical Depression Grace is currently bearing down on the earthquake ravaged nation of Haiti and will slither its way north of…

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