Adrian Frater/Gleaner Writer
December 27, 2025
by Adrian Frater
We want a proper road not a skating rink, say fuming Moy Hall residents
Western Bureau: Residents of Moy Hall in St James are now hopping mad, saying infrastructure work to install a water pipeline system and additional work to replace the old asphalt road with concrete…
December 24, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Alleged killer nabbed after 14 years on the run
WESTERN BUREAU: Fourteen years after he was accused of a double murder and the wounding of another woman in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth, 41-year-old Andre Daniels has been taken into custody.…
December 20, 2025
by Adrian Frater
NCB Foundation grants wishes to women from the west
Western Bureau: Kemeshia Black, of Bethel Town, in Westmoreland; and Charmaine Green, of Montego Bay, St James, who were both impacted by Hurricane Melissa, got some much-needed financial help earlier…
December 17, 2025
by Adrian Frater
‘It was not a shoot-out’
WESTERN BUREAU: Some residents of Rose Heights, St James, have rejected the police’s account of an incident in which three men were shot and killed and two firearms allegedly seized in the community…
December 17, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Spanish-Jamaican teen raises over $2m for Cornwall Regional Hospital
Western Bureau: Responding to the devastation left behind in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa, 17-year-old Spanish-Jamaican Kiran Moleon Lopez, a student at the American School of Madrid in Spain, has…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Two Palmers, two painful Melissa experiences
Western Bureau: While scores of residents were converging on the Duanvale Community Centre, in Trelawny, on Friday to collect care packages and other supplies courtesy of Pepsi, which had partnered…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Dog healthcare took a battering from Melissa
WESTERN BUREAU: Veterinary surgeon Dr Stephen Bryan said, when he established Bryan’s Veterinary Clinic on Coke Avenue in Brandon Hill, Montego Bay, a decade and a half ago, it was not only about…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Jimmy Cliff crosses last river
WESTERN BUREAU: The dark clouds that hung over Somerton on Monday and the rains that soaked the quiet St James community felt like nature itself mourning the passing of its beloved son – reggae icon…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
THE FINAL FRONTIER
WESTERN BUREAU: With full access to Cambridge by road now restored, the last frontier in the unprecedented destruction heaped on the people of St James is now fully exposed – the widespread…