Jacks Hill News Today

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Robert Hall, assisted by relatives, was busy chopping down trees from around his home in Kingsworth, Jacks Hill, St Andrew, in an effort to prevent the raging fire that had started the day before from...

‘An action packed day filled with excitement’ is how a resident of Ivor Drive in Jacks Hill, St Andrew, described massive bushfires within the space earlier this week. The resident, who identified herself only as GG, said she even joined the...

John Godfrey Saxe wrote in 1872 a very telling poem based on a Indian fable about six blind men examining an elephant they could not see. “... It was six men of Indostan (another name given to India – a variant of Hindustan – land where River...

A MEDICAL doctor whose Jacks Hill, St Andrew home was on Friday drenched with tonnes of debris from a suspended housing development project nearby says he is taking legal advice, amid radio silence from local authorities and the developer on the...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A mechanic is claiming he was unaware that the car parts he removed from an "old vehicle" on behalf of his customer were actually stolen property. He made his position known in the...

Residents of Jacks Hill in St Andrew mounted roadblocks on Tuesday morning to protest the condition of the roads in their community, saying that the already-terrible state was worsened by recent heavy rainfall. Using felled trees to block the...

Residents of Jacks Hill in St Andrew say they will continue their protest until the authorities address poor road conditions in the area. This morning, they mounted roadblocks to press their case. They argued that roads have been neglected for...

A number of Jamaicans expressed gratitude on Friday that no catastrophe occurred during an earthquake felt islandwide last Thursday night, which some admitting they were caught flat-footed and sen...

WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA TEACHERS’ Association (JTA) President Leighton Johnson is urging teachers and school administrators to pay close attention to their physical health and not to take any underlying medical conditions for granted. This follows...

With high hopes for the year ahead, school administrators and students put the summer holidays behind them and returned to the classrooms on Monday, basking in the thrill of a fresh start. The islandwide back-to-school excitement was noticeable,...