WESTERN BUREAU: The need for potable water and properly paved roads dominated complaints from residents at an Hanover Eastern community Development Fund (CDF) constituency consultation on Tuesday at Bethel Primary School in Hopewell. Concerns...
WESTERN BUREAU: For the next three months, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) will be putting into effect an advertisement and building amnesty, which will become effective on April 1 and run until June 30. Mayor of Lucea and Chairman of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Repeated flooding in the Oceanpointe Housing Scheme in Point, Hanover, is being blamed for the suspension of the 2026 ‘Back to School’ treat, usually hosted by the Oceanpointe Community Outreach Group for children within the parish...
Western Bureau: Andrea Purkiss, the member of parliament (MP) for Hanover Eastern, is taking the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to task, arguing that the entity is usurping her authority as the legitimate representative of the...
Western Bureau: The domestic dispute numbers have not climbed, but police in Hanover are fielding calls with growing frequency. Deputy Superintendent Courtney Wilson says the parish needs stronger conflict-resolution training to stop minor...
Western Bureau: After four years of using the makeshift bridge, which they created when the 100-year-old Woodsville Bridge collapsed in 2022, residents of the eastern Hanover community are greeting the news that they are to get a new bridge with...
Western Bureau: Reacting to the spate of traffic accidents near the Grand Palladium Hotels and Resorts – widely regarded as an accident blackspot – the Hanover Chamber of Commerce is calling for the installation of traffic lights in the area, in...
Western Bureau: Veteran educator Sandrene Hill-Sherwood, a long-serving teacher at the Sandy Bay Primary School, is the new chairperson for the Hanover Justices of the Peace Association (HJPA) after being elected at that body’s recent annual...
WESTERN BUREAU: Six new bus sheds are being built in Hanover as part of efforts to provide greater comfort for the travelling public. The project, scheduled for completion within three months, is funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover’s two members of parliament (MPs) Heatha Miller-Bennett and Andrea Purkiss, want to see the relevant documentation to verify a claim by Local Government Minister Pearnel Charles Jr that more than J$330 million has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Colin Virgo, assistant general secretary of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), used the occasion of the annual civic ceremony to mark the birthday of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante on Tuesday to again raise...
Western Bureau: The plan to scale down Tuesday’s annual celebration of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante’s birthday at his birthplace in Blenheim, Hanover, was averted at the last minute after the Government intervened, providing the funding...
Western Bureau: Twenty-six students, five years old and under, from the Passion Basic School and Daycare in Johnson Town, Hanover, were given a first-hand experience in plant identification and naming during a recent visit to the nearby Grand...
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid mounting complaints from staff and councillors that the aging Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) administrative building is deteriorating around them, calls are growing for national intervention to address what has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Health Department (HHD) has embarked on a garbage clearing drive as a health protection amid complaints from residents that the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s Western Parks and Markets (NSWMA/WPM) is falling...
Western Bureau: As was the case last year, the celebration to mark the birthday of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante, at his birthplace in Blenheim, Hanover, has been scaled down because of lack of funding to stage the event in the traditional...
Western Bureau: Superintendent Andrew Nish, the police commander for Hanover, says that for this year, his team would be paying greater attention to traffic management with a view to preventing the increasing number of traffic accidents, which has...
Western Bureau: Citing the strain on its limited resources, the Hanover branch of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is urging individuals making crank calls to its emergency number to end the practice that could potentially cost persons their lives...
Western Bureau: It has been more than three months since Hurricane Melissa devastated western Jamaica, but the impact is still being felt in the region with some families in Hanover, whose homes were destroyed, still being housed in shelters....
Western Bureau: Heavy rains that lashed sections of Hanover this week took a heavy toll on the parish, causing major flooding in the OceanPointe Housing Development and land slippage in other areas, including some that were impacted by Hurricane...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver has reiterated his call for every school in the island to have a dean of discipline, expressing disappointment that both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels says he will be collaborating with Hanover Western Member of Parliament Heatha Miller-Bennett to develop a comprehensive cleaning plan for the Venture Gutter, which runs through the town of Lucea and...
Western Bureau: When Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica on October 28 last year, 44-year-old Theresa Diana Wedderburn of Pell River, Hanover, and her husband and five children, were among the scores of impacted families that were left homeless....
Western Bureau: Andrea Purkiss, the opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) spokesperson on tourism, says she is deeply troubled by the way workers in the tourism industry have been treated since the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which caused...
Western Bureau: With several of her constituents still without roofs on their homes, some nine weeks after the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, Heatha Miller-Bennett, the member of parliament (MP) for Hanover Western, has started an...
