WESTERN BUREAU: Janet Silvera, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), is calling for Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips to meet with stakeholders in western Jamaica to iron out...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Public Health Department has opened up a new front in its rodent eradication campaign with the formation of small operational groups with local businesses and other stakeholders to spearhead the drive. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be seeking dialogue with the National Water Commission (NWC) to determine what remedial action will be taken to supply water to rural communities in the parish during the planned...
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Vernon Ellis, the commander in charge of the St James Police Division, says there were no ulterior motives in the police’s failure to provide its mandated monthly report at the last two sittings of the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although the restorative justice process is being promoted as a way of resolving disputes and reducing the number of court cases being sent for trial, at least two stakeholders in the process differ on how well informed the public...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is appealing to residents of St James to exercise greater responsibility with their garbage disposal, including motorists whose habit of throwing garbage out of their cars contributes to the parish’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James recorded one confirmed death from dengue fever in the past year, medical officer of health for the parish, Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, has revealed. While addressing Thursday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Member of parliament for St James North West, Dr Horace Chang, has announced plans for the construction of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) school in Norwood, which is located in his constituency. The school...
WESTERN BUREAU: A High Court judge used Tuesday’s start to the St James Circuit Court’s Hilary session to warn prospective jurors in St James that he would not accept reprisal fears or health challenges as a valid basis for them to be excused from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pastor Glen Samuels, president of the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (WJC), wants pastors and church leaders to do more to retain their young people’s membership in order to keep the youth from falling into crime...
WESTERN BUREAU: Little Daniel Duval Thomas evidently couldn’t wait to be the first child born at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James, crashing the New Year’s party three months premature despite his mother’s efforts to delay the delivery....
WESTERN BUREAU: The Maldon Primary School family in Maldon, St James, will start the 2020 school term mourning the sudden death of principal Audrey Bernard-Kilbourne on Boxing Day. Bernard-Kilbourne, who hailed from the Stonebrooke community in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following reports that there are at least two suspected cases of malaria in Jamaica, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is giving assurance that his organisation is equipped to treat...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the western Jamaica arm of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), Reverend Everton Jackson, is strongly urging the Government to reconsider its decision to cut funding for the violence-intervention programme, arguing...
England McCrane, the woman arrested and charged after allegedly conning several residents in western Jamaica out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while operating under the guise of being a certified medical doctor, had the case against her...
Eighteen-year-old Shawn Lyons, a dance enthusiast and a student of the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf in Granville, St James, is determined to show that deaf people can be worthwhile contributors to Jamaica’s workforce, despite having lost...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three persons detained under the ongoing state of public emergency in St James are likely to spend Christmas behind bars because of police defiance of a court order for them to be released, the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) has...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James parents who, along with their attorney-at-law daughter, were arrested and charged for negligence in the theft of 19 guns from a security company they operated in Montego Bay pleaded guilty in the St James Parish Court...
WESTERN BUREAU: Canadian national Fredrick Williams, who was arrested and charged for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Jamaica, will spend Christmas in jail as he was remanded when he appeared in the St James Parish Court yesterday to answer...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Community Development Minister Desmond McKenzie and sector leaders in St James are urging residents of the western parish to exhibit a spirit of unity while seeking to defy crime and violence going into 2020....
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator at the Montego Bay-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CHR), are at odds about the turnaround time for blood samples taken from suspected dengue patients...
WESTERN BUREAU: Songstress Alaine, the main act at Sunday’s staging of the St James Municipal Corporation’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and concert, spoke hope for the holiday period and the upcoming new year in between soulful...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the Granville, St James-based Sam Sharpe Diagnostic and Early Intervention Centre has only been in operation for less than three months, it is providing a welcome avenue for disabled students in western Jamaica to express...
WESTERN BUREAU: Transport Minister Robert Montague says the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) has undertaken upgrading work at two aerodromes in St Elizabeth and Westmoreland as part of an initiative to improve and expand Jamaica’s aviation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Archibald McDonald, chairman of the independent oversight committee monitoring the ongoing restoration work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has given a new date for the completion of the...
