Jamaica Beacon

Gladstone Lloyd Harrison (Valley and Pupa), 78, was born 14 April 1945. He is originally from Orange Valley district in Lluidas Vale, St Catherine. He later resided with his wife Retinela Moiten-Harrison and their children at Pennington district and subsequently at Pleasant Hill - all in Lluidas Vale. Harrison, who was employed to Worthy Park Sugar Estate for more than...

Alicia Spence will mark another milestone in her musical career when she launches her first album in a highly anticipated Gospel concert at Dinthill Technical High School in Linstead, St Catherine Saturday evening, April 27. "I choose to release this album because I have a whole lot of songs," she told The Beacon. "This album launch is not only for me...

Twelve-year-old Omarco Brown, who died in a shooting incident at his Pusey home in Point Hill, St Catherine, has been buried twice in a week. His second burial, which was the correct one, happened at his home in Point Hill on Saturday, February 24. In preparation for that send-off, the body was exhumed from a grave in which it was...

The grief was palpalble in the community of Lluidas Vale in St Catherine as people - young and old - journeyed from near and far for one main reason - to show their last respect to a promising community youth who died early, leaving loved-ones in an emotional storm. Miguel 'Bird' Willis Twenty-seven year-old Miguel Willis, better known as Bird,...

A rural community in Jamaica is still mourning after one of its natives died 11 days subsequent to his arrival in the Cayman Islands. Dwayne Butler passed away in his nocturnal sleep on 21 December 2023 - two weeks after he celebrated his 40th birthday. His body was sent back to his native Jamaica for burial, which happened on Saturday...