Published:Thursday | August 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:With the new academic year getting under way, some 120 new students have been enrolled at the University of Technology's (UTech) western Jamaica campus, which is located in downtown Montego Bay, St. James.Addressing the new students...
Published:Tuesday | August 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The delegates of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) flatly rejected the Government's wage offer, which was presented to them during a closed session at the association's 52nd annual conference in Montego Bay yesterday.While not...
Published:Thursday | August 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:Despite a range of new initiatives, the parishes of Hanover, Westmoreland and St James, which are home to the nation's two main tourist resort towns (Montego Bay and Negril), remain the hub of the nation's bloodletting, with a...
Published:Wednesday | August 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The police in St James are now said to be facing a worrisome situation as marauding gunmen are reportedly standing up to them and engaging them in gunfights on the streets of the western parish.The revelation came in the aftermath of...
Published:Monday | August 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The St James woman who was arrested on Sunday after she was allegedly found with identity information associated with the lotto scam has still not been charged, albeit she remains in police custody and could find herself in deep...
Published:Saturday | August 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Researchers at the Montego Bay, St James-based International Postgraduate Medical College (IPMC) are raising concern that the practice of oral sex in Jamaica could be responsible for the outbreak of a gum disease which is proving challenging to...
Published:Friday | July 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The residents of Granville, St James, who were looking forward to putting on their dancing shoes tonight to celebrate Jamaica 55 with a street dance, will have to make alternate arrangements as the St James Police High Command has...
Published:Wednesday | July 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:While it would appear that the Government is now ready to roll out the new zones of special operations initiative, lay magistrates, who are expected to play a pivotal role in its implementation, are still unsure of what role they will...
Published:Tuesday | July 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau: As St James continues to bleed, with the murder toll racing past 160 following the killing of two persons in a brazen gun attack in Salt Spring on Monday, it would appear that Montego Bay's mayor, Homer Davis, is ready to embrace the...
Published:Sunday | July 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:If not for the 'dissing showdown' between Alkaline and Tommy Lee Sparta, which generated the show's most excitement, Sumfest Friday night's unofficial 'artist of the night' title might have fallen into Spice's lap.She was rolled on...
Published:Thursday | July 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:The city of Montego Bay is now home to a branch of LASCO Money following last week's official opening at the Dump Up Beach and Events Park on Howard Cooke Boulevard. The entity is located at Bay West Shopping Centre on Union Street....
Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The Montego Bay business community was thrown into mourning yesterday afternoon when prominent 52-year-old businessman Winston Chue, of a Westgate Hill address, was murdered gangland-style on Miriam Way in the downtown section of the...
Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau: Tension is now high in the Paradise Crescent community in Montego Bay, St. James, where two brothers were killed gangland style early Monday morning in the aftermath of an overnight quarrel, which turned deadly, much to the chagrin...
Published:Sunday | July 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The relentless drive by the Hanover police to rid the parish of notorious gangsters was met with more success on Saturday as a man said to be a member of the One Voice gang was arrested and a loaded firearm seized during a police...
Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:While fully supportive of the proposed Zones of Special Operations Bill, which is expected to significantly affect St James, the nation's undisputed murder capital, government Senator Charles Sinclair says that he has no desire to...
Published:Monday | July 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:With more than 260 murders since the start of the year, the police's Area One division is the nation's undisputed murder capital and should be significantly impacted when the Zones of Special Operations crime-fighting initiative comes...
Published:Monday | July 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:Tears flowed at Glendevon Primary and Junior High School in St James yesterday, as teachers and students struggled to come to grips with the fact that nine-year-old Kala Bailey, who was one of the sparkling gems in her grade three...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 11:12 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The Montego Bay based International Postgraduate Medical College (IPMC) is now on the verge of getting accreditation for its Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Programme, which is a master's degree programme, from the Royal College of...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:At 14-year-old boy is now in police custody following the fatal shooting of a nine-year-old girl in the volatile Hendon/Norwood community in Montego Bay, St James, last Friday.The dead child has been identified as Kala Bailey of the...
Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 11:11 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:With noxious fumes still plaguing the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James despite the extensive work being done to fix the problematic ventilation system, an old chimney, thought to be the source of the latest bout of the offensive...
Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:The police's bid to tame lawlessness in the Area One police division, which has churned out more than 100 murders since the start of the year, is now getting significant new resources,...
Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:As stakeholders continued to grapple with a solution to crime in St James, government senator Charles Sinclair is calling for a summit to examine all the contending views."It is my view that there needs to be a joint sector leaders'...
Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:With alleged multiple murderer Shernado Leslie now out of the way, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sharon Beeput, the commanding officer for the Hanover Police Division, is confident that some measure of peace should return to the...
Published:Saturday | June 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Joan Rattray, the mother of Elvis Malcolm, the man who was murdered metres from the St James Parish Court just over one week ago, is convinced that her son's killers were rogue cops."It was a carefully planned, professional execution," Rattray told...
Published:Saturday | June 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
Western Bureau:Head of the police operations in western Jamaica, Assistant Commissioner of Police Warren Clarke, is blaming the culture and the penchant for lawlessness in that section of the island on issues which have existed for decades."For many...
