WESTERN BUREAU: The fruits, vegetables and meat market, located in the town of Hopewell in eastern Hanover, was officially reopened on Thursday, June 23, after being closed for several months for reconstruction and expansion works to be carried out...
WESTERN BUREAU: The learning environment at the deep-rural Chamber’s Pen Primary School in western Hanover is slated for major improvement in a few months, as a contract was signed and refurbishing work scheduled to start immediately at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: SOCIAL AND infrastructural improvements slated to take place in Chambers Pen, Hanover, under a $300-million investment to transform it into a model community are set to begin in a matter of days. Rural Development Minister Desmond...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CASE of the two missing guns from a villa at the five-star Tryall Club in Sandy Bay, Hanover, for which taxi operator Balfour Hutchinson was arrested and charged, has been rescheduled for mention on Tuesday, July 26. The case...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) Eastern Hanover constituency machinery is presenting itself as being ready for any eventualities if either local government or general elections are called in the months ahead. A combined...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Damion Crawford is calling for a special minimum wage to be introduced in the hotel sector, similar to what is in place for security guards. Crawford, who was addressing a combined People’s National Party (PNP) divisional...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVEN STUDENTS from Hanover were presented with grants totalling $205,000, provided by the Board of Supervision for exceptional academic work in their external examinations over the last two years. Keshanae Tomlinson and Dayana-Lee...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRAVERSING THE main street in the Hanover capital of Lucea should take less than two minutes under normal circumstances. However, on any given day, it will take motorists up to half an hour, and sometimes more, to travel the 400-...
WESTERN BUREAU: SUPERINTENDENT OF Police in charge of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Hanover Division, Sharon Beeput, has issued a plea for motorists to stop signalling others with flashing lights when there is an ongoing police operation....
WESTERN BUREAU: A taxi operator at the Tryall Hotel and Villas, Balfour Hutchinson, has been arrested and charged with the disappearance of two firearms from a villa on that property. Hutchinson was charged on Friday, May 27, and offered bail on...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NUMBER of motor vehicle accidents occurring across Hanover, resulting in several deaths and serious injuries, are of great concern to residents of the parish. Consequently, Deputy Superintendent and Divisional Head in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE OVER 600 students and staff at Rhodes Hall High School in western Hanover will now have their teaching and learning experience in a more comfortable setting, as a new block of six classrooms, constructed at a cost of...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting an above-average hurricane season for 2022, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) coordinator in Hanover, Keniesha Stennett-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) officials are denying claims by a councillor in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), that he has personal experience of a shortage of bed linen at the Noel Holmes Hospital, during a visit...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE island now into its fifth wave of COVID-19, municipal and health officials in Hanover are now directing their attention towards amusement events as a means of assisting in controlling the spread of the virus in the parish....
WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE Hanover Health Department (HHD) hauls the operators of Chances Rehabilitation Centre before the courts for operating without the required permits, there are concerns that the number of mentally ill persons seen roaming the...
WESTERN BUREAU: PLANS TO establish a police post in the fast-growing town of Hopewell, Hanover, have hit a snag, which will lead to further delays in the implementation of the much-needed facility. The project, which has been in the making since...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH LABOUR Day 2022 just days away, it has been revealed that Hanover’s Labour Day project for this year will be at the Hanover Infirmary. Mayor of Lucea and Chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), Sheridan Samuels,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TOWN of Lucea, Hanover, now has an environmental problem with piles of dislocated bamboo floating along the coastline, causing an eyesore and preventing fishermen from accessing their boats in some areas. The problem, according...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE POLITICAL directorate at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) is putting plans in place for the implementation of a staff improvement programme to begin later this year. According to Mayor of Lucea and HMC Chairman Sheridan...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER police will be paying close attention to happenings at Hopewell High School, following a recent altercation between students at that learning facility. With recent media reports highlighting several violent...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVEN WOMEN from the district of Kendal, in western Hanover, were honoured by residents on Mother’s Day for their priceless contribution towards building and uplifting that district. Sybil Williams, 82 years old; Hazel Miller, 79;...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Woodsville in Hanover continue to defy orders by the authorities that the badly compromised bridge be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic, claiming that the alternative routes are not feasible. The bridge, which...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE REQUIREMENT for all justices of the peace (JPs) to submit an annual report to their respective custodes has seen some amount of delinquency islandwide, with the level of submission of these annual reports differing from parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FINGER-pointing between the local representatives of the National Works Agency (NWA) and the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) over whose responsibility it is to fix the damaged bridge in the district of Woodsville, Hanover,...
