Port Antonio News

The Gleaner has confirmed that the National Blood Transfusion Service (the Blood Bank) is facing a critical shortage of bags to store blood and the reagent needed to test the blood it collects. In fact, the problem has reached alarming...

The authority recommended in its report that a more proactive and practical plan be launched and impressed upon the division the urgency of the matter in preventing the firm establishment of gang criminality within the parish...These concerns, according Dave McIntosh,...

The toast of the night was his widow, Patrice Wymore Flynn, who was presented with a plaque from the Jamaica Tourist Board in honour of her late husband, who was influential in the birth of tourism in Port Antonio, which...

DJ Jagga takes title over DJ Chungy Published: Monday October 12, 2009 Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer DJ Jagga Watching the announcement of the 2009 Heineken Green Synergy competition unfold last Saturday night was much like being a spectator at an...

Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition after they knocked off contenders Happy Grove High in a 2-0 thriller in their top-of-the-table matchup at Hectors River on Saturday. In the other group match, Port Antonio High edged neighbours Titchfield 2-1 at...

Gareth Davis Sr, Gleaner Writer Although 27 boats registered for the 46th staging of the Port Antonio Blue Marlin tournament, only 23 started out yesterday morning in the angling competition, which will be held over five days. The competition was...

Patrice Wymore Flynn has two great loves: her late husband, the actor Errol Flynn, and her adopted home, Portland. This evening, the American actress who shunned the limelight for over four decades, dons her dancing shoes for both.

The old Jamaican saying 'short cut draw blood' played its course recently when two tourists who decided to travel an easier path home, were robbed by two men. The tourists, both German, age 33 and 29 years, were travelling on...

Access to health care has always been a pressing issue for human beings. That access for residents of Moore Town in the upper Rio Grande Valley and its surrounding areas will be improved with the reconstruction of their health centre,...

Balenbouche Estate, St Lucia This former sugar plantation is a heritage site and now an elegant "eco-lodge" and organic farm. The four little cottages (two-bed Almond and Banyan, one-bed Calabash and Frangipani) are scattered with antique furniture and local artwork,...