WESTERN BUREAU: Chantelle Clarke has one wish, and that is to find her 29-year-old schizophrenic brother, Answain Clarke, who has been missing in Montego Bay, St James, since May 5. According to Chantelle, Answain was last seen exiting a taxi...
WESTERN BUREAU: Perry Cummings Jr, outgoing president of the Guild of Students at The University of the West Indies, Mona, has called for a comprehensive public safety strategy in response to recent incidents of violence against women and children...
WESTERN BUREAU: Akili Duncan’s world came crashing down on Saturday when she learnt that her 16-year friendship with Anisa Dilworth had come to an abrupt, devastating end. The childhood best friends, who first met at the DRB Grant Demonstration...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nekeisha Burchell, the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for St James Southern, says there are ambitious plans in place to boost the constituency’s economic development by advocating for greater investments in tourism and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Acting Superintendent of the St James Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), Keneisha Vaccianna, is calling on residents to stop making prank calls to emergency services, describing the act as a dangerous and costly distraction...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Labour Day 2025 looming, Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon says the Charles Gordon Market will be the main parish project for the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC), albeit noting that councillors will undertake smaller...
WESTERN BUREAU: Buoyed by a notable decline in major crimes, Superintendent Mercedes Currie of the St James Police Division has commended the parish’s residents for their ongoing support in crime-fighting efforts. Speaking at the monthly meeting of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St James, is urging members of the public and other stakeholders to join the health department in the fight to keep the parish clean and disease-free amid the ongoing...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the use of artificial intelligence (AI) grows rapidly across the world, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is suggesting that it is better at assisting humans than replacing them. The UNDP shared this analysis in...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Dr Avia Williams dropped out of a Jamaican teachers’ college due to financial hardship, her future looked uncertain. But with perseverance and redirection, she later pursued medicine – ultimately securing a position in internal...
WESTERN BUREAU: For the last nine years, Andrea Hall has been honouring the legacy of her daughter, former Miss Universe Jamaica Shakira Martin, who died of sickle cell complications, through the Shak’s Hope Foundation. Hall’s mission is to assist...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the 10 per cent baseline tariff announced on April 2 and imposed by the United States (US) on countries with which it trades, local agricultural exporters and other stakeholders are expressing ongoing concern over the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The last time 19-year-old Abonique Jones saw her father, Tristan Jones, on April 2 he was alive, well and full of life. She never knew that two weeks later she would be looking down at his lifeless body, leaving her to mourn his...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon anticipates further growth in the city as the Montego Bay Perimeter Road project progresses closer to its 2026 completion date. Vernon, speaking against the backdrop of road construction along...
WESTERN BUREAU: The administrators at Western Parks and Markets’ (WPM) Waste Management Limited continued the inauguration of their new offices with a free health fair for 500 employees to encourage a healthy lifestyle. The health fair was held...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Senator Janice Allen is demanding that her government counterpart Charles Sinclair recant a statement made at a political meeting on the weekend, suggesting that she could be a United States green card holder. According...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on electoral candidates to remove all political campaign material from the streets of St James by the end of this week or face hefty penalties, noting that the municipal authority has not...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Dayton Campbell, the opposition spokesman on agriculture, fisheries, and rural development, says small farmers will greatly benefit, should the People’s National Party (PNP) form the next government, as the party is committed to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny police, led by Superintendent Winston Milton, are preparing to address interpersonal disputes throughout the parish, as, while other serious crimes are declining, residents continue to struggle with poor conflict...
WESTERN BUREAU: Less than 10 years after graduating high school, Chadwayne Walker, a decorated former Kingston College (KC) track athlete, has traded his spikes for a briefcase and a career as a district attorney in Kansas City, United States (US...
WESTERN BUREAU: With three degrees and well on the way to attaining a PhD, Kirkton Bennett is convinced that he was recently denied a teaching job at a high school in St James because of his weight – a concern raised during his interview to fill a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Damoy Wright’s family is devastated following the tragic incident last Friday in Cotton Tree, Trelawny, in which a loaded truck fell on to the motor car he was driving, killing him. The Ulster Spring police say the incident...
WESTERN BUREAU: A number of recently graduated nurses are struggling to find employment in Jamaica’s healthcare system despite the Government’s openness to recruiting foreigners to fill gaps. Angela Rose* graduated from the University of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cheers erupted inside the Godfrey Stewart High School in Westmoreland on Sunday evening as Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters celebrated the news that George Wright, member of parliament (MP) for Westmoreland Central, has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: The struggles of motorists and pedestrians using the pothole-riddled roadway between Montego Bay in St James and Negril, Westmoreland, is steadily being eased, thanks to ongoing road-patching taking place under the Relief Emergency...
