Western Bureau: Tears flowed freely along Sun Valley Road in Glendevon, St James, on Tuesday morning as the full extent of a devastating overnight fire, which gutted three business places, was revealed under the glare of the morning sun. “I lose...
WESTERN BUREAU: Since 2019, Mesheka Brown had been trying to adjust to life with glaucoma, which had robbed her of her sight in one eye and was threatening the other, so she was not taken totally by surprise when the second eye went dark last year...
WESTERN BUREAU: A man believed to have been the mastermind behind Tuesday’s murder of deejay Roger ‘Jaggy D’ Walker, a police source told The Gleaner, was shot and killed in a gunfight with the Hanover police early Friday morning. The deceased man...
WESTERN BUREAU: Veteran deejay Roger Walker, popularly known as ‘Jaggy D’, was murdered shortly after midday on Monday in Hopewell, Hanover, when an unknown assailant opened fire, killing him on the spot. Reports are that Walker was speaking to...
Western Bureau: After Hurricane Melissa, with all the fury of its 195-mile-per-hour winds, many Jamaicans emerged as heroes in numerous communities, especially in western Jamaica, risking their lives to help and protect others from potential...
Western Bureau: Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels, who is spearheading the call for a national response to the spate of recent floodings in Hanover, believes the dredging of the town’s harbour to address the build-up of silt is key to solving the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon says the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be leasing lands in proximity to the Montego Bay Sports Complex in Catherine Hall to facilitate a $3-billion Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy House Speaker Heroy Clarke has cited climate instability and transnational crime as existential threats to the Caribbean requiring an urgent global response, noting that these are the most pressing issues affecting regional...
WESERN BUREAU: At the mention of JAMCO Entertainment, laughter is usually the first thing that comes to mind. The company is the force behind the popular comedy series Come Av A Laugh, which has delivered rib-tickling humour to local and...
Western Bureau: With the 2026 hurricane season just months away, some residents of Phase Two of the Estuary Housing Scheme, in St James, are worried about the slow pace of the rehabilitation work on a section of their community, which caved in...
Western Bureau: For the second time in recent months, the medical staff at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has gone public in registering their disgust with the overcrowding and poor working conditions at the Type...
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 surface have left their hillside community with...
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. Daniels’ arrest last week comes amid what police...
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 this week when they became beneficiaries of the...
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 on Monday. The residents, who attempted to block...
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 raised over $2 million to help provide supplies...
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 with entities such as KFC, Pizza Hut and Wata,...
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 caring for dogs and cats – his primary area of...
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 James ‘Jimmy Cliff’ Chambers. Somerton has...
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 devastation of homes, farms, schools, and critical...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has praised medical personnel for their resilience after Hurricane Melissa caused widespread damage to health facilities, calling the Category 5 storm one of the most devastating on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dancehall star Rodney ‘Bounty Killer’ Price, through his Bounty Killer Foundation and International DJ and record producer DJ Khaled’s We the Best Foundation, on Monday donated $8 million to four hospitals in western Jamaica to...
WESTERN BUREAU: While Hurricane Melissa has not left behind many positive memories, it may have laid the foundation for a stronger relationship between the police in Montego Hills, St James, and residents of the surrounding communities. With the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid cries for food, water, and the removal of mud-soaked debris, one resident of Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, St James, says his only wish is to clear the sludge from his home and move on from the horrors of Hurricane Melissa. “...
