WESTERN BUREAU: Alleged sexual harassment victim Janelle Blair says opposition by some members of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) into hearing her testimony regarding reports of misconduct at the Edna Manley College of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Altamont Hotels, Christopher Jarrett, has been named Hotelier of the Year by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA). The hotelier, who has been instrumental in leading the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has urged Jamaica’s tourism industry players to fulfil their corporate social responsibility, arguing that the sector’s success cannot only be simply limited to a rise in employment rates or record...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) has reiterated its condemnation of all forms of sexual abuse against minors on the island. The JHTA’s position comes following the recent publication of the US Department of State’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Howard Mitchell, says it is way past time for the Government and Opposition to fully engage civil society to comprehensively discuss the root causes of crime in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the embattled Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Marigold Harding, has reacted with shock at the principal’s revelation that she had previously warned a lecturer who was recently sent on leave as a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Japan, Malta, Nepal and Hong Kong are to open regional Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centres (GTRCM), in conjunction with Jamaica, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced. The four new partners aim to build...
WESTERN BUREAU: The male lecturer at the centre of the sexual harassment and assault allegations at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts has been sent on leave. This comes following a nine-hour meeting on Tuesday of the board...
WESTERN BUREAU: With creative juices flowing unceasingly in melting pots, Executive Chef Daniel Schweizer is happiest in his industrial kitchen at the Sangster International Airport. Montegonians were recently given the green light to enter...
WESTERN BUREAU: The board of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts is expected to discuss the sexual harassment allegations rocking the St Andrew-based fine arts school at a board meeting today. Several alleged victims of sexual...
WESTERN BUREAU: A male lecturer at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts is reporting that for well over a decade, one of his colleagues has been engaged in sexually predatory behaviour against students and has had hundreds of...
Citing the importance of being good corporate citizens, RIU Palace Jamaica and RIU Reggae, both flagship brands of RIU Resorts, have thrown their support behind two much-needed charities in Montego Bay. The Refuge of Hope Night Shelter in the inner...
WESTERN BUREAU: Scores of mourners turned out at the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, St James, on Tuesday to bid farewell to Pishu Chandiram, described by many as one of the pioneers of Jamaica’s in-bond trade. Chandiram, who died on May 7, was a past...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis has expressed disappointment with the resistance by some stakeholders to the decision by the St James Municipal Corporation to convert a centuries-old cholera cemetery in the city into a car park....
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the efforts of the St James Municipal Corporation, the city of Montego Bay is still grappling with rodent infestation resulting from improper disposal of garbage by some food establishments and street-side food vendors. And...
WESTERN BUREAU: Vowing to give reggae music a major platform in North, South and Central America, Jamaica-born entertainer and promoter, Kass Smith says his upcoming Riviera Nayarit International Reggae Festival is poised to “connect all the dots...
WESTERN BUREAU: It was a sombre atmosphere inside the Holy Trinity Church, West Gate, St James, last Saturday, where scores of persons bid farewell to medical doctor and nutritional expert Anthony Vendryes, who was hailed as “a true patriot and...
Three decades ago, hotelier and farmer Ricky Jackson pumped US$1.5 million into the acquisition of a 4,000 acre property that has become his passion and environmental cause. Over time he has developed Moreland Hill Estate, located at the border of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Calling it a massive win for the local economy, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said that Jamaica is now retaining more earnings from the hospitality sector than at any other time in the nation’s history. Making his...
WESTERN BUREAU: The support and audience reaction to the staging of Jesus Christ Superstar seemed not only to have served as a confidence booster for executive producer Andre Dixon but re-emphasised the dire need for a performing-arts centre in...
They left some of the biggest names in the music industry to return to the place they call home. The original members of Buju Banton’s Til Siloah band, are back with him, and the words that comes from their mouths is a rendition of Half Pint’s One...
NASSAU BAHAMAS: The last time Mark ‘Buju Banton’ Myrie performed to a Bahamian audience, he was hailed a star. Last Saturday night when he returned at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium in Nassau, the former star easily moved from his dancehall genre...
WESTERN BUREAU: The University of the West Indies (UWI) should have its first-ever Graduate School of Tourism up and running at its Western Jamaica Campus in Montego Bay by the beginning of 2020. Speaking at the official groundbreaking for the new...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the Caribbean ecosystem becomes more vulnerable, Sandals Foundation has committed to engaging 100,000 people in environmental conservation over the next 10 years. “This commitment includes working with schools and educators to...
Dave Revels’ Shadows of the ‘60s, Fitzroy ‘Saxie’ Minott, Jumanji band and Lady Marlene brought an international combination to the opening of Montego Bay’s newest attraction, Grand A View Restaurant and Event Place, last Saturday night. Opened...
