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Published:Tuesday | November 19, 2024 | 12:06 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Villa Mimosa in Discovery Bay, St Ann, was the setting for a love story that proves second chances can be breathtakingly beautiful. Two Saturdays ago, under a cloudless Jamaican sky, Charles Rose and Claudia Stanley said, "I do...

Published:Friday | March 1, 2024 | 12:05 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Supreme Court Justice Simone Wolfe-Reece on Wednesday heard an application by a former student of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), who sought judicial review of the institution’s decision to expel him. The student, Timoy...

Published:Friday | February 2, 2024 | 12:14 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Highlighting the influential role of western Jamaica in shaping election outcomes, former St Mary Western Member of Parliament Robert 'Bobby' Montague has underscored the strategic move by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in...

Published:Friday | February 2, 2024 | 12:13 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Today, Jamaica's Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett and his executive team are scheduled to meet with the president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, Robin Russell, along with representative of the Tourism Crisis...

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2024 | 12:26 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Hackers yesterday infiltrated a Zoom meeting attended by more than 60 members of the diaspora who were invited to witness the historic launch of the new JAM-DEM (Jamaica Diaspora Engagement Model) virtual platform. The platform...

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2024 | 12:25 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: A groundbreaking virtual platform, the first of its kind in the region, known as JAM-DEM (Jamaica Diaspora Engagement Model), was officially handed over to the Jamaican Government on Tuesday, marking a significant milestone eight...

Published:Friday | January 5, 2024 | 12:08 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: An imminent solution is on the horizon for the exasperation faced by travellers grappling with the traffic quagmire at Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, assures Sharon Hislop, MBJ Airport Limited’s commercial...

Published:Thursday | September 7, 2023 | 12:28 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Merely 10 days after his company was recognised as the ‘Leading Independent Car Rental in the Caribbean, at the World Travel Awards in St Lucia, Michael Campbell, managing director of Island Car Rentals, has died. Campbell, who...

Published:Tuesday | August 1, 2023 | 4:02 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Some residents in Westmoreland are being accused of taking depravity to another level Sunday night, when they reportedly chose to strip the carcass of a cow involved in an accident that killed a policeman, rather than offering help...

Published:Saturday | April 29, 2023 | 5:00 PMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: A 37-year-old man is dead, and the driver of a Toyota Voxy on the run after allegedly causing the collision of a four-vehicle crash along the Great River Bridge in Hanover this morning. The dead man has been identified as...

Published:Thursday | December 23, 2021 | 12:09 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Forty days after an American woman rented a 2017 Toyota Corolla from Sixt-Rent-A-Car at the Sangster International Airport, she seems to have disappeared into thin air and the vehicle is nowhere to be found. The woman, Antiellia M...

Published:Monday | November 9, 2020 | 12:14 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: The Holness administration has overturned a decision by a state watchdog not to allow mining and quarrying at the Dry Harbour Mountain in Discovery Bay, St Ann, despite compelling arguments in an environmental impact assessment (...

Published:Monday | October 12, 2020 | 12:07 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer -

The Jamaica Pegasus in Kingston has converted some of its bedrooms into small meeting spaces to accommodate a new concept tagged ‘CO(ME) Work’, targeting people who wish to work in a digital space in the capital city. The 300-plus room business...

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