A second young farmer who lives in Clarendon Northern is this month celebrating after a goat gave birth to five kids all at once. Johnann Jones, who lives in the Croft’s Hill area, watched in shock and merriment yesterday, April 25, as the goat he bought last year expelled four…
Life will never be the same for Martine McKay, who watched helplessly on Easter Monday as her 33-year-old boyfriend yelled for help, then disappeared in the waters of Arthur Seat river, not far from the Kellits area of Clarendon. The late Oliver Newman lived at Croft’s Hill in Clarendon, but…
A weeping crowd converged on the banks of a Clarendon river yesterday as news rapidly spread about the suspected drowning of a carpenter, who had gone to the river to enjoy Easter Monday holiday with close relatives and friends. The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)said the deceased is 33-year-old Oliver Newman…
Adrian Gillespie, 26, recently opened a bank account and is seeking public help to raise one million Jamaican dollars for a surgery scheduled to be done on May 25 at the University Hospital of the West Indies. He is a hard worker who, despite being battered by sickle cell disease,…
We aren’t kidding! A goat belonging to young farmer Kemron Nembhard, this month, gave birth to five kids, beating the average of two kids per birth. Their owner, who has been in farming for some six years, said he is shocked, considering the rarity of a goat having such large…
A simple conversation between a handful of people on a social media platform, WhatsApp, has morphed into a powerful community group, which now comprises more than 100 volunteers undertaking life-changing projects in and around Kellits in Clarendon. Members of the group called One Connection rally around each other to, among…
While not ruling out a possible return to competitive politics, Caswell Pinnock said he recently resigned as Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for Clarendon Northern because he already expended the funds set aside for his political pursuits. “I am really not a rich man, and so I invested all I…
Former Jamaica Labour Party general election candidate Caswell Pinnock is not a happy man today, considering that a helmet could have saved two of his close relatives whose lives were snuffed out months apart in similar bike crashes near Kellits, Clarendon. His 50-year-old brother Winston Pinnock died in January when…
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has confirmed The Beacon’s previous report that a fatal motor vehicle accident unfolded yesterday near Kellits in Clarendon, adding that the deceased is 48-year-old mason Fitz-Gerald Black. The deceased, also known as Shabba, is a resident of Rhoden Hall district near Kellits. He died of…
Personnel from a funeral home on Saturday encountered significant problems opening the hearse that transported the body of Leroy ‘Nova’ Francis, a controversial resident of Croft’s Hill in Clarendon who eventually was buried at Lluidas Vale Cemetery in St Catherine. Francis, 59, pictured above, died of natural cause in early…