March 16, 2021 0 Linstead | MP closes constituency office; workers tested amid covid scare By Horace Mills The four people who work inside the St. Catherine North-West constituency office are in quarantine and their workplace closed until…
March 15, 2021 0 MP, who tests positive for covid, urges more empathy for all By Horace Mills Minister of State in the Ministry of Health, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, who is also Member of Parliament (MP) for West Rural…
March 15, 2021 0 Community Focus | St. Mary man grateful for new house By Horace Mills “I thank the Lord for my neighbours who helped me,” said a joyful 72-year-old Keith Sidney, affectionately called ‘Sonny’. His…
March 12, 2021 0 Man in viral videos fined $26K or 80 days for breaches in St. Andrew By Horace Mills A man has been punished after he committed a number of breaches, which were captured in videos that went viral.…
March 10, 2021 0 I didn’t feel it – First person vaccinated in Jamaica tells others to take it too By Horace Mills Public Health Nurse, Marcia Thomas-Yetman, is the first person in Jamaica to receive the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. She was vaccinated…
March 8, 2021 1 Linstead | Alleged gunman killed during home invasion By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said a man, who is yet to be identified by cops, was shot dead about…
March 7, 2021 0 Family mourns Point Hill singer slain in Spanish Town By Horace Mills A family is still trying to come to grips with the gun murder of an aspiring artiste, who was best…
March 7, 2021 0 Police yet to identify charred human remains found in Point Hill By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said its officers are yet to identify the person whose charred remains were found at…
March 3, 2021 0 Linstead | Mother, daughter missing By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said an Ananda Alert has been activated for a mother and her daughter from Hope…
March 2, 2021 0 Community focus | Lluidas Vale teachers get 7 whiteboards, thanks to group based overseas By Horace Mills Teaching has become easier for educators at Lluidas Vale Primary School in St. Catherine following the donation of seven classroom…
February 27, 2021 0 Man dies in crash in Linstead By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said a deliveryman died of injuries received in a motor vehicle collision at the intersection…
February 25, 2021 0 Community focus | Dixon’s Drug Store donates tablets, urges others to give back to Linstead By Horace Mills Like father, like son. Mark Demetrius, the Manager of Dixon’s Drug Store in Linstead, St. Catherine, is proudly retracing his…
February 23, 2021 0 Linstead | McGrath past student now in Sweden, signed to football club By Horace Mills Less than a month after he confirmed to The Beacon that he would be heading to Sweden to play professional…
February 22, 2021 0 Community focus | Business owners donate 17 tablets to their former school – Kellits Primary By Horace Mills Christopher Peat, better known as ‘TT’, is no stranger to philanthropy. For 10 consecutive years, he gathered and donated clothes,…
February 17, 2021 0 Bog Walk | Senior citizen missing By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said 88-year-old Miguel Sutherland from Cow Gully district in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, has been…
February 17, 2021 0 Update: No gun found when cops kill resident of Ewarton By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is correcting a claim it made in a press release regarding the fatal shooting of…
February 16, 2021 0 Gun found in Linstead while cops probe robbery committed in St. Ann By Horace Mills A teenager, whose name the police are withholding at this time, was found in possession of an illegal gun in…
February 15, 2021 0 Linstead business-woman charged for gun found in shoe box By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said its officers at St. Ann’s Bay Police Station in St. Ann have charged 47-year-old…
February 14, 2021 0 I was NOT in that car – Linstead woman hurt by ‘fake news’ about murder By Horace Mills A woman from the Linstead area of St. Catherine is expressing outrage and fear after a social media page, Pinkwall,…
February 13, 2021 0 Lluidas Vale | Linstead woman dies in crash By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said a resident of Orangefield district in Linstead, St. Catherine, died in a motor vehicle…
February 11, 2021 0 Riversdale | 15-year-old missing By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said an Ananda Alert has been activated for 15-year-old Shamaya Blair, who has been missing…
February 11, 2021 0 Linstead | Man missing since last year By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said 27-year-old Leroy Perkins has been missing since Monday, December 21, 2020. He is from…
February 10, 2021 0 Linstead | Son of Linstead business woman among two charged for gun in St. Ann By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has released the identities of two men who are now facing a gun charge in…
February 10, 2021 0 Linstead | Pastor says new church is not about money – it is about lifting people By Horace Mills Reverend Sheldon Raymond said the church he officially launched on January 31 this year is not aimed at making money,…
February 9, 2021 0 Update: Police say truck kills man near Lluidas Vale By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has released the identity of a man, who died last evening (February 8) after being…
February 8, 2021 0 Linstead native among 2 arrested for gun in St. Ann By Horace Mills Two persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure of a handgun in Ocho Rios, St Ann, on Friday,…
February 7, 2021 0 Croft’s Hill | Security guard killed in crash By Horace Mills The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has confirmed that a man died in a motor vehicle crash this afternoon (February 7)…
February 7, 2021 0 Linstead | McGrath footballer being recruited by club in Sweden By Horace Mills Peter McGregor has transitioned from schoolboy football and may head to Sweden partly to complete discussions that may result in…
February 6, 2021 0 Bog Walk | School compound closed for a week after worker tests positive for COVID By Horace Mills The Ministry of Education has ordered the closure of Enid Bennett High School in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, after an…
February 6, 2021 0 Former head girl, who became ward of State after mother died, now in university By Horace Mills Nakeba Brown was 10 years old when her mother died at age 29, leaving nine children who had to be…