North Coast Times

16/11/2025

WATER MADE AVAILABLE BY DISCOVERY BAUXITE FOR RECOVERY
DISCOVERY BAY, St Ann; Nov 16, 2025
Discovery Bauxite in St Ann is helping people in its mining areas and even outside the parish access large volumes of water during this recovery period after Hurricane Melissa.
More details on the North Coast Times website:

ST ANN PLANT SUPPLIES PEOPLE IN, AND BEYOND PARISH DISCOVERY BAY, St Ann; Nov 16, 2025 Discovery Bauxite’s water wells in Discovery Bay, St Ann, are playing a key role during the hurricane recovery period in supplying thousands of gallons of water to communities and individuals in the company’s ...

14/11/2025

UPDATE ON POST MELISSA ACTIVITIES ACROSS ST ANN
OCHO RIOS, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025

From electricity to long bank lines, a cry by the St Ann Chamber to the reopening of some schools. It’s all here in the DIARY and you can have your say. DETAILS ON THE NORTH COASTTIMES WEBSITE

UPDATE ON POST MELISSA ACTIVITIES ACROSS ST ANN OCHO RIOS, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 This is a notebook to be published regularly, to which you may contribute Just send any comment by WhatsApp to 876-503-9995 about what’s happening where you are in the aftermath of Melissa. You may also ask questions ...

14/11/2025

SOME ST ANN SCHOOLS OPENING
Ocho Rios, St Ann; Nov. 17, 2025
Some St Ann schools are opening for classes; others are working hard to welcome students despite damage to buildings, a lack of electricity, water, and internet connections.
Details on the North Coast Times website

ALL NOT PERFECT BUT CLASSES START, OTHER COMING SOON Ocho Rios, St Ann; Nov. 17, 2025 School principals and administrators in St Ann are determined to get classes going again despite damage, sometimes severe, to the majority of more than 80 institutions in the parish. The Ministry of Education, Yout...

12/11/2025

CRUISE SHIPS BACK IN OCHI AFTER MONTHS OF ABSENCE
OCHO RIOS, St Ann; Nov. 12, 2025

Cruise tourism is back in business in Ocho Rios and the wider St Ann after two cruise vessels arrived with more than 6,000 people on board on Tuesday, after months of layoff.
Details on the North Coast Times website

CRUISE SHIPS BRING MORE THAN 6,000 TO OCHI AFTER MONTHS OF ABSENCE OCHO RIOS, St Ann; Nov. 12, 2025 Two cruise vessels were enthusiastically and eagerly welcomed in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on Tuesday, November 11, after the north coast resort had been off the cruise itinerary since last year, when a fre...

06/11/2025

FIRST TO OPEN AT EXCHANGE PRIMARY
On Monday, less than a week after Melissa, with every school in St Ann shuttered, one student turned up at Exchange Primary, near Ocho Rios, and that sparked a whole new back-to-school drive.
See details on the North Coast Times website

EXCHANGE PRIMARY IS ONLY SCHOOL IN ST ANN TO OPEN SINCE MELISSA OCHO RIOS, St Ann, November 6, 2025 Only one school in St Ann has opened its doors since the battering the country suffered from Hurricane Melissa. Many schools have been put out of use across the parish. Water systems toppled or cut of...

26/10/2025

COMMAND CENTRE OPENED IN ST ANN

A COMMAND CENTRE to coordinate responses of the various agencies and responders to Hurricane Melissa is up and running at the St Ann Municipal Corporation Offices in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann. Details on the North Coast Times website.

5 SHELTERS HAVE PEOPLE ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann; October 26, 2025 A command centre to gather information about Hurricane Melissa and to direct responses from various agencies has been established at the St Ann Municipal Corporation Office, St Ann's Bay. “We are here taking information and complaints a...

23/10/2025

MONEAGUE COLLEGE SUSPENDS ONLINE TOO
UPDATE
Moneague, St Ann; Pct. 23, 2025
Moneague College has suspended all online classes. The institution in St Ann, updated information to its stakeholders in a release on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. See details on the North Coast Times website:

MONEAGUE, St Ann; Oct. 23, 2025 Students in boarding at Moneague College, St Ann, are expected to leave the campus by 1:30 this afternoon, Thursday, October 23. The college, in a release issued Wednesday, October 22, 2025, gave notice of instructions of decisions taken, based on the “threat posed ...

23/10/2025

MONEAGUE COLLEGE’S TROPICAL STORM CLOSURE

Moneague College began closing down and transitioning to online classes on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, due to the threat posed by Tropical Storm Melissa. Details on the North Coast Times website

MONEAGUE, St Ann; Oct. 23, 2025 Students in boarding at Moneague College, St Ann, are expected to leave the campus by 1:30 this afternoon, Thursday, October 23. The college, in a release issued Wednesday, October 22, 2025, gave notice of instructions of decisions taken, based on the “threat posed ...

23/10/2025

SCHOOLS TO CLOSE THURSDAY

All schools have been directed to suspend face-to-face classes and "transition to remote learning." This decision was announced by way of a news release issued after 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 22. Details on the North Coast Times website
https://northcoasttimesja.com/schools-to-close-thursday/"

MOVE TO REMOTE LEARNING AHEAD OF MELISSA All schools have been directed to suspend face-to-face classes and transition to remote learning. This decision was announced by way of a news release issued after 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 2025. The release did not state when the suspension would take ef...

22/10/2025

PORTLAND HONOURS 6 UNSUNG HEROES
PT ANTONIO, Portland; Oct. 22, 2025
On a wet Heroes Day morning, Portlanders braved the weather to pay tribute to six unsung heroes from the parish who were honoured in Port Antonio Square. Details on the North Coast Times website

SCHOOLBOY HONOURED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR BRAVERY PT ANTONIO, Portland; Oct. 22, 2025 Portlanders braved the showers for the Heroes Day Parade and tributes at the Port Antonio Square as they honoured six of their own. The Port Antonio Marching Band led the uniformed groups. Mayor of Port Antonio, Councill...

22/10/2025

7 UNSUNG HEROES HONOURED IN ST ANN
Seven people from St Ann were honoured as unsung heroes, by the St Ann Municipal Corporation, on Heroes Day, Monday, October 20, 2025. Details on the North Coast Times Website:

20/10/2025

MAJESTIC OCHI HIGH DANCE INTO GROUP OF 16
Ocho Rios High are carrying the flag for the daCosta Cup teams from the north eastern parishes into the Round of 16 in the rural area schoolboy football championship. Details on the North Coast Times website

ONLY TEAM FROM ST ANN, PORTLAND & ST MARY TO ADVANCE IN D’CUP OCHO RÍOS, St Ann; Oct. 20, 2025 Ocho Rios High are carrying the flag for the daCosta Cup teams from the north eastern parishes of St Ann, St Mary, and Portland – covered by the North Coast Times -- into the Round of 16 in the rural ...