WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICANS continue the staycation trend, the island’s local travel professionals are touting bragging rights as top producers among the country’s finest resorts. Leisure for Pleasure, Go Jamaica Travel and Island Trotters walked...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean is optimistic its tourist arrival numbers in 2023 will surpass pre-pandemic records set in 2019, the best year ever for the tourism-dependent region. Addressing the media at a Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) press...
WESTERN BUREAU: They came to party, but ended up owning a piece of the rock, their parents and grandparents called home long before they were born. BritJam patrons started coming to Jamaica for the annual party event 12 years ago, and today many of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Sandals Foundation, in collaboration with USAID, will pump J$38.5 million into at-risk youths in the vulnerable communities of Flankers, Norwood and Salt Spring in St James over the next 12 months in a project aimed at creating...
WESTERN BUREAU: Caribbean Cruise Shipping and Tours, the local agents for Marella Cruises, are refuting reports that their TUI UK client has stopped taking Jamaican vacationers on their boats, which homeport at the Montego Bay Freeport terminal. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: With 35 main gateways from the United States and connectivity to 200 secondary airports in that North American country, Jamaica is being touted as the most connected destination in the Caribbean. The island’s tourism minister,...
WESTERN BUREAU: At age 36, Dionne Nesbeth was diagnosed with diabetes, and months later she experienced two heart attacks that resembled a case of indigestion. “I started feeling chest pains and thought it was indigestion. I didn’t take it as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former St James Custos Ewen Corrodus died on Monday at a hospital in Florida in the United States after ailing for some time. The Montego Bay businessman, who was 81 years old, served in the position of first citizen of the parish...
Bioprist Institute of Medical Sciences has pledged $4 million in financial aid - $1 million per year for the duration of their studies - to each child of any police officer in Jamaica who decides to study medicine. The student, however, must maintain a good grade point average (GPA), while the aid...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has said that given tourism’s magnetic linkage to other industries, the sector has now become a pillar on which sustainable growth and accelerated development must depend. Patterson, a former...
WESTERN BUREAU: While foreign direct investment has become the bedrock of tourism investment in the Caribbean, Jamaica’s tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett, is calling for more locals to be encouraged to invest in the industry and for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: COMMISSIONER OF Police Major General Antony Anderson says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) under his watch has become very transformational, where everything is designed and calculated before any operation can be given the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland businessman Courtney Laing used his 50th birthday to raise over $1 million to purchase medical supplies for residents of the Westmoreland Infirmary in Savanna-la-Mar. The facility, which houses 70 men and women,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Diego Hines, former chemistry teacher and subject coordinator at Jamaica College (JC), was fondly remembered by his school and the wider community as an educator par excellence during a thanksgiving service last Sunday. The 36-year-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Newly appointed head of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), Rodney Taylor, says new standards to govern international mobile telecommunications are needed as the Caribbean moves inevitably towards 5G technology. Taylor’s...
Members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) are expected to be dispatched to the Montego Bay Wharf as of Monday, owing to the huge numbers of guns and ammunition which have been passing through the port in recent times, The Gleaner has learnt....
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica-born United States Ambassador Noah Nickolas Perry stood with tears in his eyes, pointing towards one of the lanes he grew up in, in the inner city community of Rose Town, near Trench Town, in Kingston last Friday afternoon...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nordia Edwards said when she felt a pain in her abdomen on Wednesday evening, she instinctively knew something terrible had happened to her nine-year-old daughter, Nikita Noel. Hours later, her worst fears would be confirmed as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the Early Childhood Commission, Trisha Williams-Singh, is pressing for the prosecution of the perpetrator of an alleged beating of a three-year-old that triggered the closure of a Mount Salem preschool last week....
Bulla, traditionally a popular treat for Jamaican schoolchildren, usually paired with cheese, made its way up the food ladder last Saturday night as Couples Tower Isle took ‘Reggae Kulcha Explosion’ to another level. The 45th anniversary epicurean...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tarrus Riley got the assignment and it would be an understatement to say that he simply delivered, because the maestro who commanded the attention of guests at Couples Tower Isle last Saturday night was more of a musical demigod....
WESTERN BUREAU: After five years of courting two-time Grammy Award winner Michael Bolton, Jamaica’s Issa Trust Foundation has sealed a deal that will see the American singer and songwriter performing at Couples Sans Souci in Ocho Rios on Saturday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nordia Barrett went bald six months ago, declaring that this was symbolic of her fresh start. “I want my growth to mimic my hair,” she told The Gleaner in October last year, months after relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, in the United...
