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Senator Marlon Morgan.
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Consider use in compiling book lists, Morgan urges schools

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Marlon Morgan is urging school administrators to exercise greater care in preparing book lists, arguing that parents are sometimes asked to purchase textbooks and workbooks that end up not being used in the classroom. Morgan, the parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Education, made the appeal while addressing a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) meeting in St Elizabeth on Sunday.

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La Sonja Harrison (left), the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, and Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth, and information, in conversation on the third and final day of the association’s 62nd annual c
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Mile Gully High ‘not fit’ for education, JTA president declares

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison has described the condition of Mile Gully High School in Manchester as unacceptable, declaring that it is “not fit to…
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Sinclair: Gov’t will find Coopers Pen solution

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Charles Sinclair, deputy general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has intimated that the Government will be finding a solution to address the plight of residents of…
J. C. Hutchinson, Jamaica Labour Party deputy leader for Area Council Four, announced his retirement from the post come October after 30 years as an officer.
August 25, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Hutchinson plans to rally Labourites for JLP’s fourth term

WESTERN BUREAU: While J.C. Hutchinson will be stepping down as the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) deputy leader in charge of Area Council Four come October, he has made it clear that he plans to remain…
Medical and healthcare practitioners listen keenly to data on mental health during the Western Regional Health Authority’s Family Health Review, held at the Burchell Baptist Church Hall in Montego Bay on August 20.
August 22, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Stigma blocking children from mental-health care

WESTERN BUREAU: Nurse practitioner Tackaya Brown-Lawrence, who heads the St James Child and Adolescent Wellness Centre, says mental-health stigma remains a major barrier preventing children and…
Healthcare providers take notes during the Western Regional Health Authority’s Family Health Review at the Burchell Baptist Church Hall in Montego Bay on August 20.
August 21, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Nutrition counselling giving pregnant women better shot at beating anaemia

WESTERN BUREAU: Nadine Simmonds-Lewis, the regional nutritionist at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), said a review by the entity has found that pregnant women who received nutrition…
La Sonja Harrison, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, addresses the delegates at the third and final day of the association’s 62nd annual conference at the Ocean Coral Spring Hotel in Trelawny on Wednesday, August 19. H
August 20, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

‘I cannot change who I am’ - JTA boss vows to disrupt education status quo

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says she cannot change, declaring that she will continue to challenge the status quo and ask uncomfortable questions on…
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August 20, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

JTA holds fire on JTC bill

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says the association is waiting patiently to see the revised Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill before they are…
From left: Enrolled Assistant Nurse Codner and Registered Nurse Dawes from the Savanna-la-mar Health Centre; Novlin Leslie Little, parish manager, Westmoreland Public Health Services; Dr Beverley Wright, regional cancer programme coordinator at the Western
August 19, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

FIT hailed as ‘game changer’ in colorectal cancer fight

WESTERN BUREAU: Cancer survivor Dr Beverley Wright, the regional cancer programme coordinator, has described the introduction of the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) in western Jamaica as a “game…
Lennox Wallace (left), parish manager at the St James Public Health Services, was giving support to the drivers from the region at the WRHA Regional Defensive Driving and Driver Sensitisation Programme Cohort 2.
August 18, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

WRHA drivers get defensive-driving boost

WESTERN BUREAU: Drivers employed by the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) are now undergoing a 10-day Driver Sensitisation, Certification and Recertification Programme aimed at upgrading their…