WESTERN BUREAU: Vocal cheers and vuvuzelas resounded throughout the Montego Bay Cultural Centre on Sunday evening as 18-year-old Karena Gayle overcame five competitors to be crowned Miss St James Festival Queen 2023. Gayle, a resident of Bogue...
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE WAS great jubilation at several primary schools in St James yesterday as students got the results of their Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations, with many children and their parents celebrating their conquest of this year’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: PARENTS OF the St James-based Salt Spring Primary and Infant School recently got a financial boost to help their children’s back-to-school preparations for the upcoming September term, with a combined $200,000 in grants given by...
WESTERN BUREAU: GAIRY GRAHAM, the St Elizabeth man who was arrested for trying to smuggle 5.5 kilogrammes of cocaine on a flight to London, England, at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on June 8, was yesterday sentenced to 10...
WESTERN BUREAU: COMMUTERS WERE left stranded yesterday as taxi operators who ply the Montego Bay to Trelawny route withdrew their services for several hours in protest over poor road conditions, and the drivers are adamant that they will continue...
WESTERN BUREAU: The People’s National Party’s (PNP) delegates in St Elizabeth North Eastern yesterday voted in attorney-at-law Zuleika Jess as the party’s prospective candidate to contest the seat in the next general election amid mixed responses...
WESTERN BUREAU: MICHELLE VIRGO, the flight attendant who was arrested and charged after three pounds of cocaine was reportedly found in her luggage at Sangster International Airport on June 6, was offered bail in the sum of $1 million during her...
WESTERN BUREAU: PATRONS SEEKING to attend the upcoming Montego Bay Jerk and Food Festival 2023 (MoBay Jerk Fest) can look forward to a musically soul-filled affair while they enjoy the various jerked dishes that will be available when the annual...
WESTERN BUREAU: PROFESSOR TREVOR Munroe, the founding director of National Integrity Action (NIA), is recommending that Jamaica’s constitution reform committee should spend at least one year compiling educational material to properly inform the...
WESTERN BUREAU: LAST week’s abduction and murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe, has prompted National Integrity Action’s [NIA] founding director, Professor Trevor Munroe, to call for a review of how the guidelines are used to sentence offenders...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE JAMAICA continues its gradual economic recovery following the global COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is pledging that his administration will maintain the country’s sense of financial discipline even as he...
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers, the commanding officer for the Area One Police Division in western Jamaica, has credited the vigilance of the security forces’ anti-narcotics agents as a factor in the recent...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ANTICIPATED trial of Chad and Sheena Headley, the St James couple who were arrested last June after $85 million worth of cocaine was allegedly found at their home, has been pushed back to July 14 due to the absence of one of...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH JAMAICA now in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Montego Bay’s Mayor Leeroy Williams is warning that the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be cracking down hard on anyone dumping waste into drains and gullies or...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY’S multiagency raid at the controversial Bayith Yahweh worship complex in Norwood, St James, councillors at the St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] are raising serious concerns about whether a health assessment...
WESTERN BUREAU: MOUNT ALVERNIA High School in Montego Bay, St James, has increased its capacity to train its student cohort in mastering the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum, following the official inauguration of...
WESTERN BUREAU: DAVID THOMAS, the British national who was caught trying to smuggle 16 pounds of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport on May 3, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by the St James Parish Court on Wednesday. Thomas...
WESTERN BUREAU: Michael McAnuff-Jones, the vice-president of the Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ), is hopeful that the Government will abide by a list of recommendations asking for parliamentarians to be paid based on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rohan Cummings, the western Jamaica businessman who was reportedly held with cocaine valued at US$850,000 (J$130,008,520) in a bus he was driving, will know his fate on July 5 when the verdict in the case is handed down in the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Floyd Green, the newly appointed minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining, says he will be engaging stakeholders in the mining sector over the next three weeks to determine how to strengthen Jamaica’s local mining industry....
WESTERN BUREAU: Vivion Scully, former head of Global Digital Services at the Jamaica Promotions Corporation [JAMPRO], is now the new chief executive officer of the Agro-Investment Corporation [AIC]. His appointment became effective on Thursday, May...
WESTERN BUREAU: The planned committal hearing for Kirk ‘Kirky’ Lawson, the St James man who is accused of shooting and injuring a policeman during a gun battle in February, has been rescheduled for July 21 in the St James Parish Court. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR DAY 2023 activities were largely quiet on Tuesday, with members of St James’ civic and political leadership uniting for the parish’s main project, planting trees at the Salt Spring Primary and Infant School. The activity was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister (West), is vowing that the ongoing construction of the Montego Bay Perimeter Road will not be allowed to create the level of inconvenience residents in eastern Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ashanta Ferguson, the British woman who was arrested last November after she was caught trying to smuggle four and a half pounds of cocaine onto an outgoing flight to England, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. Ferguson was...
