It was literally a case of 'speed kills' along the Hopewell main road in Hanover on Sunday night as all five occupants of a Toyota Corolla motor car died instantaneously in a horrific crash that left the two occupants of another car badly injured."...
Western Bureau:With a massive road-rehabilitation campaign now on in St James, Montego Bay's mayor, Councillor Homer Davis, plans to get tough on construction companies, especially those transporting concrete and causing spillage along the roadway....
Western Bureau:Despite having a zone of special operations and a state of emergency in force in western Jamaica, the latest Jamaica Constabulary Force Periodic Crime Statistics Review continues to paint an ugly picture of the region, with well above...
Western Bureau:Despite the ongoing state of public emergency in St James and the recent successes of the security forces in seizing illegal firearms, brazen gangsters are still committing murders in the parish, as two persons were killed during the...
Western Bureau:It was a case of tears and laughter at good memories at the Junction Guest House in St Elizabeth on Sunday, as the Haile Clacken Bipolar Foundation, created to immortalise the late Haile Clacken and draw attention to the mental...
Western Bureau:National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says that the gangsters responsible for the gun-slaying of seven persons in a 12-hour murderous rampage in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, on Tuesday night are animals that should be tracked down...
Police crime-scene tape surrounding the three-storey apartment complex in Hatfield, St James, yesterday, was the only indication of the hours-long gun battle last Saturday that left notorious gangster Nico 'Bowza' Samuels dead and four policemen...
Western Bureau:Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the commanding officer for Hanover, says that the police are powerless to stop incidents such as Wednesday's gruesome triple murder in Green Island as aggrieved persons are not utilising the mechanisms...
Western Bureau:It would appear that anger, spawned by rejection, was at the heart of yesterday's brutal triple murder in Green Island, Hanover, where a pregnant mother and her two children were hacked to death by the children's fisherman father. He...
Western Bureau:The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) will move into a new era today at the Wexford Hotel in Montego Bay when it holds its annual general meeting to, among other things, elect a new president.With outgoing president...
Western Bureau:With the killing last Friday night of the main witness, a question mark now hangs over the case against three police officers charged in connection with the death of Mario Deane, who succumbed to injuries sustained at the Barnett...
Western Bureau:While they are not out celebrating, many residents of Cambridge in St James are quietly thankful that they will no longer have to face the wrath of top gangster Ryan 'Ratty' Peterkin, who was killed in a confrontation with a police-...
Western Bureau:The decision to keep the renal and radiology units on the main building at the problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay could be fraught with danger as fresh reports have surfaced of at least one nurse coughing up...
Western Bureau:The Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay was buzzing with activities yesterday as the hospital's administration intensified its bid to move in-house patients from the main building, which is deemed unsafe as a result of the...
Western Bureau:While junior doctors were back on the job at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, on Wednesday, the situation at the 400-bed Type A hospital remains in a state of flux as patients are being removed from the...
WESTERN BUREAU:The emission of noxious fumes plaguing the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, could be far more serious than initially believed as more than 100 nurses have been adversely affected, according to Carmen Johnson...
WESTERN BUREAU:The 1963 Coral Gardens incident, which saw scores of Rastafarians suffering brutality at the hands of agents of the State, will be commemorated at the Pitfour Nyahbinghi Centre in Granville, St James, tomorrow with a series of...
Western Bureau:With some of the gangsters who were displaced from St James by a state of public emergency (SOE) now under pressure in other police divisions, some residents of the western parish are worried that with thepolice-military presence...
Western Bureau:While the vast majority of the teachers in western Jamaica were off the job yesterday, as part of the nationwide protest to press the Government for a better wage package, many schools were forced to find creative ways to conduct...
Western Bureau:There was a strong police-military presence in the volatile Canterbury community in Montego Bay, St James, as residents were on edge following Wednesday's shooting of two men in the community by mask-wearing thugs armed with rifles."...
Western Bureau:With no end in sight to the ongoing woes of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), including the recent re-emergence of the noxious fumes emission, senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr Christopher Ogunsalu is...
Western Bureau:The multimillion-dollar redevelopment of the Montego Bay Waterfront, which is to be spearheaded by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), is still on course for the 2018-2019 financial year.Businessman Winston Dear, chairman of the...
Western Bureau:With the ongoing state of public emergency (SOE) steadily taking root in St James, violent crime is witnessing a drastic reduction. The parish - which was the nation's runaway murder capital last year, with a record 335 murders - is...
WESTERN BUREAU:Ayele Russell, the Negril resident who allegedly murdered his girlfriend last year and buried her body beneath the floor of his bedroom floor in the West End section of the resort town, is now in custody in the United States, where he...
Western Bureau:The ongoing state of public emergency (SOPE) in St James appears to be the elusive antidote that the authorities have been searching for in their quest to stump lottery scam, which the police said was primarily responsible for...
