WESTERN BUREAU: Darwin Telemaque, chairman of the Port Management Association of the Caribbean (PMAC), says CARICOM is gridlocked logistically, as a result of systemic disconnection and outdated colonial-era regulations. Telemaque, who was speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU Savanna-la-mar Mayor Danree Delancy, who also heads the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation, is calling on residents of the western parish to use the celebration of the nation’s 62nd anniversary of Independence as a catalyst to...
WESTERN BUREAU Route taxi and bus operators in Westmoreland have welcomed the relocation of the Savanna-la-Mar-based public transportation centre from Barracks Road to Beckford Street. “We just have to move with the programme because there is no...
WESTERN BUREAU: The country will have a national plan to transform the transportation sector within six months under the next administration of the People’s National Party (PNP), says Mikael Phillips, the opposition shadow minister of transport and...
Elaine Allen-Bradley, head of the 70-member Negril Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), has blasted the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) which she blames for the protracted delay of the setting up of a fruit and vegetables market for...
Clinical psychologist Dr Delroy Fray at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) said if the government is able to forge a partnership with private healthcare providers to use their operating theatre and radiology services healthcare delivery...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANNMARIE GOULBOURNE, manager at Environmental Management Services (EMS), said that specific recommendations have been given to the investors of Bamboo Bioproducts International (BBI) on their plan for the construction and...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that although more people are in jobs, there are several sectors struggling to find workers. This, according to him, is largely because a substantial number of the country’s six per cent unemployed have chosen to...
WESTERN BUREAU: THREE YEARS after it was officially launched, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) Critical Illness Trust Fund is now operational and will soon start delivering benefits to teachers suffering from lifestyle diseases and other...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winston Smith, the immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is urging Prime Minister Andrew Holness to rethink his Government’s decision to discontinue the National Housing Trust (NHT) subsidy for public...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students who attend institutions in Westmoreland yesterday welcomed the installation of a free public Wi-Fi hotspot in the parish capital Savanna-la-Mar. Highlighting the importance of Internet services, the students from Godfrey...
WESTERN BUREAU: With a price tag of approximately $175 million and a timeline of just over two years, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed disappointment that the 5,300-square-foot new Little London Police Station will take that long to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESMOND MCKENZIE, minister of local government and rural development, has said he is unable to give a definitive timeline as to when new garbage trucks will be procured to ease the inadequacy in the fleet of the National Solid...
WESTERN BUREAU. Political battle lines have been drawn as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seeks to end the People’s National Party’s 40-year control of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) when the next local government elections are held....
WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Justice Bryan Sykes says steps are being taken to assist defendants to embrace the plea-bargaining arrangement, which will allow them to get as much as a 50 per cent reduction in their sentences if they plead guilty in court...
WESTERN BUREAU:Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos of St James, says the people of the parish are grappling with fear and uncertainty as to what will happen when the ongoing state of public emergency (SOE) comes to an end on January 31, next year."We...
WESTERN BUREAU:The problematic issue of sexual attacks against visitors to the island, inside the walls of local hotels, again came to the fore recently when Asif Ahmad, the British high commissioner to Jamaica, said that British nationals,...
WESTERN BUREAU:Organisers of the upcoming Montego Bay Mayor's Charity Ball, slated for Saturday, December 1, will be seeking to raise $7 million to be used to care for less fortunate children, senior citizens and the homeless in St James.The event,...
WESTERN BUREAU:Prime Minister Andrew Holness has issued a warning to the new homeowners at the Castlewood Housing Scheme in Granville, Trelawny, imploring them not to allow criminal dons to devalue the investment they have made in their dream homes...
Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie says Montego Bay and other municipalities may soon directly elect their mayors."I believe, eventually, we will have to go that way, but it has to be done when a proper system is put in place," McKenzie...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Government has applied for a loan from the Exim Bank to build the Montego Bay, St James, perimeter road, commonly called the Montego Bay Bypass, for which construction is set to commence in the 2019-2020 financial year."We have...
WESTERN BUREAU:Agriculture Minister Audley Shaw said if it comes to that, the Government is prepared to ban certain types of dogs from entering the country in order to protect Jamaicans from being attacked and killed by these animals."Before we are...
