WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says $628 million has been allocated for the ministry’s school maintenance programme for the 2025-2026 school year. According to her, 202 schools that are currently suffering from termite...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) will be paying close attention to today’s meeting with union groups at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), where stakeholders are slated to discuss salary-related issues. During her...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 1092 Palms residential complex, which had its groundbreaking ceremony near the Whitter Village in Ironshore, St James, last Friday, is expected to enhance the physical appearance of the community, as well as boost property...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mark Malabver, the new president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is urging the Ministry of Education to provide greater support for the nation’s educators amid their ongoing salary dispute with the Government. The JTA,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two men were arrested in Lilliput, St James, yesterday (Friday) by the newly formed Area One Police Division’s Agricultural Protection Branch (APB) after they were found with 2,000lb of unstamped beef and pork, which is believed to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon says the ability to entice foreign investors to pump funding into the western city is dependent on the ability to maintain a low crime rate, which the St James capital has been able to do since the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thirty-year-old Theodore Grizzle of Falmouth, Trelawny, is in need of urgent help. He needs to have bone marrow transplant surgery done in the United States by the end of September and is relying on public support. Grizzle’s surgery...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James businessman Clive Anthony Brown never expected any reward for simply cleaning a gutter in his community, yet that humble act resulted in two children’s lives being saved in 2023, earning him recognition on Independence Day...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Knockalva Polytechnic College in Hanover, which is now steeped in preparation for its October 24 Founder’s Day celebration, is expressing gratitude to the stakeholders who assisted in its recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane...
WESTERN BUREAU: Anthony Lawrence, the chairman of the Knockalva Polytechnic College, in Hanover, is calling for the Government of Jamaica to implement policies that will allow the country’s farmers to integrate modern technology into their farming...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon this week heaped praise on the St James police for the dramatic reduction in murders in the parish. Since the start of the year, St James has recorded 34 murders in comparison to the 83 murders...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Content district and surrounding communities in St James can now engage in nighttime sporting activities after the installation of solar-powered floodlights at the Content Community Centre. The lights, which are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon says the implementation date for the city’s new traffic management plan will be announced once ongoing discussions between the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) and key stakeholders conclude....
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon says that, once the ongoing upgrades to the downtown area of the western city are complete, handcart and food vendors will not be allowed to operate outside of designated zones. Speaking at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] on Wednesday, signed a $23-million contract with Homer Davis, member of parliament for St James Southern, for a road rehabilitation project in Richmond Hill, Catadupa. The project, which...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESPECTED POLLSTERS Don Anderson, and social commentator Kay Osborne are not impressed with the attitude of Christians towards local politics, saying they are largely silent when it comes to participating in the political process or...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Mount Alvernia High School, which is celebrating its centennial year, yesterday received a generous $5-million donation towards the refurbishing of its auditorium from a group called The Friends of Luke Organisation....
WESTERN BUREAU: With yesterday's absence of the defendants’ lawyer, King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, the ongoing trial of the 16 members of the Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group, who are charged with breaches of both the Child Care and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Social commentator and retired journalist Kay Osborne is calling for a revision of the current consultative process on the Caribbean Court of Justice [CCJ] as Jamaica’s final appellate court, to allow citizens a more direct avenue...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marsha Atherley-Ikechi, the executive director of the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR), is calling on utility regulators in the Caribbean region to become more adaptable to better manage the various issues...
WESTERN BUREAU:i Montego Bay’s Hosanna Preparatory School has again come up trumps in this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations, with three students – Tenese Mowatt, Derwin Hamil, and Tanner Reid – winning government scholarships....
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says millions of dollars are now being spent to bring water to several well-established communities in St James Southern, which has been suffering from a chronic shortage of water over several years...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says that St James Health Services, to include the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), is equipped and ready to give proper medical assistance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oral Johnson, who was held with 23 pounds of cocaine during a police operation in Coral Gardens, St James, on April 26, 2022, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday. Johnson, a bar and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shaquan Maxwell and Robertha McKenzie, who distinguished themselves by being the top male and female in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations in St James East Central, were recently recognised by East Central St James...
