WESTERN BUREAU: She was poised to ace all nine Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams and would have sat the first of them today. But Shevanae Besley drowned last Friday, days ahead of her 18th birthday. The 17-year-old Green Island High...
WESTERN BUREAU: An avid reader of The Gleaner for 88 years, nonagenarian Fitzroy Buchanan has credited his development to the knowledge and awareness gained from reading the near-200-year-old newspaper. Buchanan, who turned 95 on Monday, picked up...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he has asked the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) to give him an assessment of what the country’s prospects are for growth in light of recent shocks to the economy, including the industrial...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 30,000-strong union representing civil servants has rejected the Government’s latest compensation package, issuing a 72-hour ultimatum to respond to simmering concerns or face industrial action. The Jamaica Civil Service...
WESTERN BUREAU: Emaar Properties, a multinational real estate development company in the United Arab Emirates, is in discussions with Jamaica’s Ministry of Tourism and is eyeing St Thomas and Portland for potential hotel projects. Tourism Minister...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police’s new operations boss, Deputy Superintendent Eron Samuels, has credited the increase in high-intensity searches in the western Jamaica parish for the recent arrests, gun finds, and gang disruption. In...
WESTERN BUREAU: Early childhood institutions (ECIs) within Region Four have the highest ratio of compliance with industry benchmarks, outpacing the rest of the island, and educators have credited consistency for the achievement. With a compliance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Popular gospel group Adoracion is mourning the death of two of its singers, who were killed when their car hit an embankment and a utility pole along the Bogue main road in Montego Bay, St James, on Monday night. Collin Graham, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: A cloud of mystery surrounds the death of 20-year-old Christie ‘Kiddy’ McBean, who was found dead with a single stab wound to the chest at her home in Hurlock, St James, on Monday morning. According to a relative, McBean, who worked...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica-born four-time Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross has moved her prowess from on the track to cameras of the popular cable network series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta. On Sunday, Richards-Ross made her debut on Season 14 of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James couple is accusing both their private obstetrician and the public hospital staff of causing the death of their baby boy, who was scheduled to be born on April 11. Further, 33-year-old Lishae Brown and 51-year-old Lawford...
WESTERN BUREAU: The storming of a medical ward by men demanding the release of a patient has sparked calls for the ramping up of security at Cornwall Regional Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department. Dr Derek Harvey, senior medical officer,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Beryl Walters has never missed communion, but the family now views her indication last week that she would miss Saturday’s ritual because of ill health as an omen of the tragedy that was to unfold on April 19. Beryl, and her 12-year...
WESTERN BUREAU: Head of the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica, Lenworth Kelly, wants unattached Jamaican youth “pulled off the corners” and put to work instead of construction workers being sought from overseas to work in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: RIU Resorts will pump between US$80 million and US$100 million into its newest Jamaican resort, RIU Aquarelle in Trelawny, creating some 450 jobs in the long term and 800 during construction, says Carmen Riu, chief executive officer...
WESTERN BUREAU: Losing her twin brother while in the womb and inheriting a disability has not stopped 100m Para-athlete Asoynia Campbell from outrunning those she competes with in track and field. The 24-year-old made history last weekend when she...
WESTERN BUREAU: A motion by Portland Eastern Member of Parliament (MP) Ann-Marie Vaz for a review and implementation of change in standing orders regarding women’s dress code in Parliament has received overwhelming support from females on both...
WESTERN BUREAU: Principal of Corinaldi Avenue Primary, Deon Anglin, said her staff are fearful of a repeat of the violence that resulted in the injury to a security guard who was involved in a bust-up with a student’s step-parent on Monday. Classes...
WESTERN BUREAU: Miami-based QCAS Aero will operate a first-class-only charter service into the Ian Fleming Airport in St Mary from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as of Thursday, June 16. The aviation management company will operate an Embraer 145...
WESTERN BUREAU: After pumping US$7 million into education in western Jamaica, Negril hotel investors Rockhouse Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education to expand its inclusive model school in Savanna-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Government’s projection is for three million cruise ship passengers to be making Jamaica their destination in another three years’ time, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has said. “We have established the infrastructure, and we...
WESTERN BUREAU: With 90 per cent of planned tourism investments on track, the construction industry will need 12,000 workers, multiple building contractors, engineers, project managers and a number of other specialists, the tourism minister has...
WESTERN BUREAU: “Is this how my life is going waste away? Is this where my future ends?” Those are the painful reflections of 11-year-old Calyssa Walker, who was hit by a stray bullet during a gunfight as she travelled in a taxi along McCatty...
WESTERN BUREAU: Performing well above expectations, American Airlines has added Ocho Rios, in St Ann to its Jamaican roster. The airline, which has been flying to Jamaica for the last 45 years, launches service to the tourist resort area as of...
WESTERN BUREAU: In the seven years that the Tourism Linkages Network (TLN) has existed, local producers of goods and services to the tourism industry have grossed $700 million through its Speed Networking event, says tourism minister Edmund...
