WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the Government is looking into ways to address what he has described as an upsurge in acquaintance violence, where close family members and persons involved in relationships are using...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang believes that the piloted E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) linking customers in St Andrew; Portmore, St Catherine; and Montego Bay, St James, with food service providers during...
WESTERN BUREAU: With church services having to be restricted due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, some congregations in Jamaica had mixed results in seeking to conduct Easter Sunday services this year, as some held worship online while others...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James has exceeded its vaccination target for the first phase of COVID-19 inoculation, says Lennox Wallace, parish manager for the health department. Wallace said that some sites doubled or tripled their goals. “At one site, it...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the parish manager for the St James Health Department, says that the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay is still a worrisome potential site for COVID-19 spread in the parish despite a COVID-19 testing and education...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some principals in rural Jamaica say their students are now facing serious challenges in completing their school-based assessments (SBA) for their Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams because of the suspension of face-to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two experts are calling on persons in leadership positions not to let themselves be restricted or crippled by a fear of the unknown. This, especially, they said should be taken into consideration when making decisions on how to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Rotary Club of Montego Bay did not allow the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to stop them from celebrating their 60th anniversary yesterday, as they used the popular Zoom platform to connect members for a virtual celebration of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness had no choice but to suspend face-to-face classes for students preparing to sit external examinations in the wake of an unprecedented wave of COVID-19 cases islandwide. That is the view of Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sharon Donaldson, the general manager of General Accident Insurance Company, says that businesses that shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot collect on business interruption coverage claims, even while admitting that...
WESTERN BUREAU: The nation will have to wait longer than promised for the report into Monday’s mysterious disappearance of a vial of AstraZeneca vaccine from the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, as the auditor assigned to that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Sherridene Lee, managing director of I-Doc Concierge Wellness Services Limited, has said that her organisation wants to use its medical service network to help redirect non-COVID-19 patients to appropriate private facilities in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several staffers within the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) have been reassigned after an investigation was launched on Tuesday into 10 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that went missing from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams believes that while there is now greater compliance to COVID-19 prevention protocols at the city’s Charles Gordon Market, he thinks there is a need for shoppers and vendors to be constantly...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mindi Fitz-Henley, the president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), says she is alarmed by reports that persons are using their connections with hospitals to get COVID-19 vaccines ahead of persons with legitimate...
WESTERN BUREAU: Entertainer Patrick ‘Curly Loxx’ Gaynor is suggesting that citizens are disregarding the Government’s protocols against public gatherings, which were instituted to control the spread of COVID-19, because of a psychological mindset...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA) President Dr Faithlyn Wilson is disappointed that the Government has not yet addressed the organisation’s appeal for COVID-19 economic and other support. The crisis has again drawn...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Melody Ennis, director of family health in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, believes that citizens’ hesitation to get tested for COVID-19 is due to the ‘watch-it-and-see’ culture, which has resulted in them monitoring...
WESTERN BUREAU: Charmin McKoy, the regional health educator at the South East Regional Health Authority, says that Christians who are defying the COVID-19 safety regulations, claiming they are “covered under the blood”, must set an example by...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Jasford Gabriel says many educators are uneasy over the face-to-face teaching arrangements for students preparing for external examinations as the island grapples with the COVID-19...
WESTERN BUREAU: With a noticeable indifference towards mask-wearing to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the Second City, the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) and the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) kicked...
WESTERN BUREAU: Members of the clergy in western Jamaica say the disparity in the most recent COVID-19 containment measures announced on Sunday by Prime Minister Andrew Holness covering weddings, funerals and church services leaves room for...
WESTERN BUREAU: The national Youth Parliament of Jamaica (NYPJ) says it is in full support of the Ministry of Education’s recent announcement that only students taking external exams should attend face-to-face classes as part of efforts to curb the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has likened the operations of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, to a war zone as it grapples to find space to admit a rising number of COVID-19 patients...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Grange Hill High School’s graduation class of 1993 recently gave back to their alma mater by providing computer tablets to 37 of the Westmoreland-based institution’s students, to help them pursue their studies online, because of...
