WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the recently renovated and expanded Black River Health Centre in St Elizabeth will provide stakeholders in the health sector with a unique opportunity to redefine universal access to...
Western Bureau: Unlike counterparts in Montego Bay who are seemingly worried that the reinstatement of the state of public emergency (SOE) will impact their earnings, business operators in the resort town of Negril are seemingly more concerned...
Western Bureau: Tired of having their lives disrupted by crime and violence, some inner-city residents in Montego Bay say they are ready to reject the ‘informer fi dead’ culture and join the fight to rid their communities of gun-toting gangsters. “...
Western Bureau: The man believed to have been the driver of an ill-fated motor car, which mowed down and killed two-year-old Sasha-Gaye ‘Munchie’ Dennis along the Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay on Tuesday, is now in police custody in St...
Western Bureau: Despite the many new policing initiatives and promises to curtail the rampant lawlessness plaguing the western region, the latest crime figures indicate that the region’s murder tally for 2019 has now exceeded 100, reaching 110 over...
Western Bureau: Superintendent Vernon Ellis, the commanding officer for the St James police, is sounding a warning to the men who shot and seriously injured a policeman in Norwood yesterday morning. “We are not going to ask them to turn themselves...
Western Bureau: Seafood processor Rainforest Seafoods has signed an agreement with the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to develop a state-of-the-art seafood-processing facility in Calliaqua, St Vincent. The agreement for the project,...
Western Bureau: The new traffic management plan, which is an integral part of the St. James police’s overall drive to contain lawlessness, is producing the desired result, according to Superintendent Vernon Ellis, the...
Western Bureau: As the Government continues to mull over the idea of establishing more zones of special operations (ZOSO) across the island, residents of Mount Salem, in St James, which had the first ZOSO, say they are enjoying the transformational...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Rock Bridge in Falmouth, Trelawny, which was recently closed by the National Works Agency (NWA) because of significant structural defects, will be replaced. Janel Rickets, community relations officer at the NWA’s Western Region...
Western Bureau: The head of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) Montego Bay chapter is not in support of calls for a reinstatement of a state of emergency (SOE) in St James to tackle rampant crime in the parish, saying such a move...
Western Bureau: A recent declaration by Winston Lawson, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, that murders in St James have reached a “distressing level” was confirmed by the latest Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)...
Western Bureau: The St James police’s bid to remove illegal weapons from the streets of the western parish was met with more success over the past 48 hours with the seizure of four firearms, including an assault rifle. “We are literally working...
Western Bureau: While admitting that Chinese Ambassador Tian Qi, in a light-hearted manner, commented on a photograph of Ruel Reid, the embattled former minister of education, during his recent visit to the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) in...
Western Bureau: Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for the St James Police Division, says his team is not singling out Chinese business operators for special protection, albeit that members of the Chinese business community in Montego...
Western Bureau: As sad as he was when his father died, Grange Hill High School’s principal Errol Stewart, was composed enough not to cry. However, he could not contain the tears that flowed last Friday when the school’s well-loved security guard,...
Western Bureau: The death of top-flight St James gangster, 23-year-old Amoy ‘Pinky’ Young, who was killed in a confrontation with the police in Granville on Thursday, is being hailed by the police as a major breakthrough in its effort to neutralise...
Western Bureau: Several licensed firearm holders in western Jamaica could lose their guns in short order as the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) is not satisfied, based on alleged flaws in their character and other disqualifying factors, that they...
Western Bureau: In a week when criminals staged a daring daylight robbery in Montego Bay, St James, escaping with millions of dollars and killing two persons (on March 10), the relentless efforts of the police in tracking down the wrongdoers paid...
Western Bureau: While there are fresh jitters among stakeholders in St James as a result of the post-state of public emergency (SOE) spike in murders, Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer of the St James Police...
Western Bureau: Prominent hotelier Richard A.M. Wallace is now the new president of the Negril Chamber of Commerce And Industry. Wallace was selected for the job at the chamber’s recent annual general meeting, where a new team was identified to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland police have vowed to leave no stone unturned in a bid to bring to justice the gunmen responsible for a bloody rampage in the parish earlier this week that left eight persons dead. “We have a fair idea of what is...
Western Bureau: Western Jamaica lost one of its iconic residents yesterday with the passing of legendary businessman, politician, and philanthropist Owen ‘Hurry Hurry’ Sinclair. “This is a tremendous loss to the parish and Jamaica overall,” said...
WESTERN BUREAU: Growing scrutiny on crime data and an embarrassing rat infestation exposé at the old Area One headquarters in Montego Bay have caused rank-and-file police in western Jamaica to come under pressure from their...
Western Bureau:In a festival that saw ganja being celebrated against a backdrop of Rastafarian cuisine, art, craft and music, Ras Iyah V, one of the organisers of the annual Rastafari Rootz Fest and Ganja Cup, has declared the event a "ganja...
