WESTERN BUREAU: TRAVIS TUMMINGS, the man charged with the November 2023 murders of two Chetwood Memorial Primary School students and a man in Salt Spring, St James, is to have a committal hearing in the St James Parish Court on March 7. Tummings, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: LARREN PEART, the chief executive officer of research specialist company Bluedot Insights, is warning that students who are ignored and discharged from school for perceived ‘bad’ behaviour will be influenced by criminal elements,...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES’ SENIOR Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis is estimating that the long-awaited rebuilding of the Granville Police Station, which was destroyed by fire in May 2021, may be complete and ready to serve the people of...
WESTERN BUREAU: NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang has declared that investment in research must be treated as an essential part of Jamaica’s education sector, in order for the country to become a fully developed nation-state and halt the...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESMOND SMITH, the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) candidate for the Lorrimers division in Trelawny Southern, has sought to defend himself following reports that residents of Wait-A-Bit accused him of disrespecting them, as he is...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONDAY’S INCLEMENT weather and a lengthy driving distance from Kingston were not enough to stop 32-year-old Lenroy Neil from travelling all the way to his birthplace in Troy, Trelawny, to show his support for Collen Gager, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the price tag for the rehabilitation work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) now set at $21.4 billion, up from its last estimate of $14.6 billion, there is no certainty on whether the cost will remain the same or increase...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Freeman’s Hall, Trelawny, are accusing their political representatives of abandoning them for 50 years, citing the degradation of their community’s roadways and the lack of an adequate water supply, street lights, and...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James-based tyre repairman, who allegedly used a stone to beat another man to death during a confrontation on January 14, was offered bail in the sum of $800,000 when he appeared in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday....
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Dental Association (JDA) and the Jamaica Association of Public Dental Surgeons (JAPDENS) are both voicing concern about the low employment rate in Jamaica’s dentistry industry, with the issue being viewed as a crisis for...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR MONTHS after 61-year-old St James resident Joyce Fearon went missing during a church trip in Christiana, Manchester, her sister Nerissa Cassells is holding fast to hope of the senior citizen’s eventual return. “There is still...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR SHAKA Cooke, president of the Jamaica Dental Association (JDA), says his organisation will be lobbying the Ministry of Health and Wellness to update Jamaica’s Dental Act in order to adequately punish persons who offer illegal...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has announced that a consultative approach, in terms of reaching out for input from community members, will be included in the Government’s $40-billion road rehabilitation campaign under the Shared...
WESTERN BUREAU: GEORGE MILLER has made a name for himself as a prominent barber in Albert Town, Trelawny for approximately 30 years, despite having only one hand, and what others may see as a physical impairment is a means by which he inspires...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is asserting that while medical care and hospital infrastructure have advanced over the years, both in Jamaica and on the global stage, distinctions must be made between technology and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding has declared that, if the People’s National Party (PNP) should gain victory across municipalities in the February 26 local government elections, his administration will emphasise the upholding of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in Trelawny Southern got a morale boost during Thursday’s Nomination Day exercise in Albert Town when former Member of Parliament Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert appeared to support the party’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Magdalene Nwokocha, consultant haematologist and oncologist at the University Hospital of the West Indies [UHWI], is urging cancer patients’ relatives to rally round their ailing loved ones in a greater show of communal support....
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Elorine Turner-Pryce, the founder and general mission director of Eden Joy Whole Foods and a decade-long breast cancer survivor, is urging other women not to be so busy seeing to the needs of others that they neglect themselves...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nigel ‘Mad Ras’ Bailey, the St James man charged in connection with the December 10, 2023, shooting death of 42-year-old Kemar Henry, has been remanded until March 26 following the St James Parish Court’s rejection of his lawyer’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: St Catherine South Eastern Member of Parliament Robert Miller is voicing fresh confidence that Portmore will be designated Jamaica’s 15th parish after the local government elections. “As the prime minister (Andrew Holness) stated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite recent concerns which have been raised about allegations of police brutality and the impact of such reports on Jamaicans’ relationship with law enforcement, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is asserting that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining will be ramping up efforts to ensure that agricultural education is provided to students at the primary school level, in order to instil in youngsters an early understanding of and...
WESTERN BUREAU: “I am tired, I am weary, but even though I am crying, I am joyful. We are overjoyed.” That was the immediate reaction of Nickeda Gray, the aunt of 15-year-old Shineka Gray who was stabbed to death in 2017, moments after a seven-...
WESTERN BUREAU: A SENIOR court judge is warning police officers that they are not to abuse their authority by harassing or assaulting members of the public and that the issue of alleged police brutality must be stopped because it destroys the...
