WESTERN BUREAU: The public cemetery in the Hanover seaside capital of Lucea is in a sordid state as shrubs obscure many of the graves and overgrowth has turned into huge trees as a result of neglect. The terrible state of affairs, over which many...
WESTERN BUREAU An air of calm has returned to the Green Island High School community in Hanover as the matter of motor vehicles being parked along the sidewalk outside the gates of the school compound has been addressed. This had followed...
Western Bureau With the start of the 2023-2024 academic year just days away, several parents and teachers in the Green Island area of Hanover are expressing concern over what is being described as “a clear-and-present danger” for students of Green...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two Hanover schools, Lucea Primary and Esher Primary, are the first to receive donations from Dreams 4 Jamaica, a newly formed charitable organisation comprising Jamaicans in the US. Principals for both schools, Mrs Y. Anderson-...
WESTERN BUREAU The hard work, determination and sacrifices made by 30 students, 15 each from the Esher Primary and Lucea Primary schools in western Hanover have been celebrated by the Henworth and Sarah Campbell Family Foundation. The students will...
WESTERN BUREAU President of the Community Development Committee (CDC) in Woodsville, Hanover, Sashagay Frazer, is calling on the authorities to make good on several promises to fix the alternate route into the community as to date nothing has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Woodsville, Flower Hill and Hillsbrook, in Eastern Hanover, should be breathing a sigh of relief, at the recent announcement of a government allocation of some $75 million, towards the replacement of the collapsed...
Western Bureau: With the deplorable state of the roads in eastern Hanover causing a nightmare for motorists and paedestrians alike, Derrick Wright, the president of the Hopewell Citizens Association, says he is very concerned about the situation...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE THE sweltering heat and sporadic bouts of rain, residents of Green Island, Hanover, turned out in large numbers on Tuesday to participate in a peace march and public meeting, which formed part of their effort to draw...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seven-year-old Alenia Hall, a grade-two student at the Jericho Primary and Infant School in Hanover, walked away with the coveted Mini Miss Jericho Reunion 2023 title on July 24, as the curtain came down on the 10th edition of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two hundred and sixty-four students from Hanover, who are pursuing varying degrees of studies, will have one less thing to worry about come the start of the 2024 academic year, as the Tryall Fund, one of the parish’s premier...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lucea’s deputy mayor, Andria Dehaney-Grant, is calling for the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) to direct more of its resources to Hanover, saying the parish, which shares the resort town of Negril with Westmoreland, is not getting...
Western Bureau: Two park benches, valued at more than US$1,000, have been installed at Watson Taylor Park in Lucea, Hanover, courtesy of the Friends of Watson Taylor Park (FWTP), a new non-profit, charitable organisation, consisting of local...
Western Bureau: With more than 100 adults and children showing up at the Sandy Bay Primary School, in Hanover, for last weekend’s health fair, which was staged by the Indian High Commission in collaboration with the Hanover Municipal Corporation (...
Western Bureau: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), which is seeking to add much-needed cash to its coffers, says it will be ramping up its revenue collection drive across the parish in the coming weeks, with special attention being given to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The special anniversary committee, which was established to plan, organise, coordinate, promote and implement events for the 300th anniversary of the parish of Hanover, is now officially a subcommittee of the Hanover Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty primary and preparatory school students from Western Hanover, who had excellent results in their Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Examinations, were fêted by their member of parliament, Tamika Davis, on Sunday. The ceremony, dubbed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Plans are well advanced for a school and community health fair to be staged at the Sandy Bay Primary School in Hanover this Sunday, thanks to an initiative by Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Rungsung Masakui, who made a...
Western Bureau: Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Minister Floyd Green has revealed that the sweltering heat now impacting Jamaica is negatively affecting the nation’s food production. The effects of the high temperatures are being manifested in...
WESTERN BUREAU The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) is inviting youths from across the parish to submit applications for the Ministry of Local Government’s Youth Summer Employment Programme (YSEP). Mayor of Lucea, and chairman of the HMC,...
WESTERN BUREAU Parish officials and public passenger vehicle operators have welcomed proposed plans by the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) to construct a transportation centre for the town of Green Island, in the western end of the parish. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: “It’s like a death trap, or walking in a minefield,” one operator of a business along Main Street, Lucea, told The Gleaner about the walk along that thoroughfare in the Hanover capital. What was supposed to be a multifaceted,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PEOPLE’S People’s National Party’s (PNP) political machinery in the Eastern Hanover constituency now has two new faces at its leadership level. They are in Lennox ‘Zico’ Fray, the divisional chairman for the Hopewell Division,...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT IS not an everyday achievement for parents and children to receive the same recognition for excellence and the level of social and community work that they have done over their lifetime. However, Andria Dehaney-Grant, principal...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTRY OF Education building officers and administrators at the Hopewell High School in Hanover are expressing deep concern about the structural integrity and safety of a block of classrooms at that institution. Classrooms sit...
