WESTERN BUREAU: BISHOP O’GARTH MCKOY, the national superintendent of the United Pentecostal Church of Jamaica, is commending Jamaica’s leadership for its recent refusal to grant diplomatic privileges to the partner of a gay American diplomat, even...
WESTERN BUREAU: Even though she once shared an intimate relationship with Omar Green, Nordia Edwards felt no pity for him yesterday as he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her nine-year-old daughter, Nikita Noel. “He got the chance...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of Detective Sergeant Sheldon Dobson, the policeman who is facing a manslaughter charge in relation to the death of his infant daughter, was put off until December 14 when he appeared in the St Elizabeth Circuit Court in...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has given an assurance that the referendum, which is needed to transform Jamaica into a republic, will not be held at the same time as the country’s general or local...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is urging parents to remember that they should care for their own mental health by creating ‘safe spaces’ for themselves to relieve their stress, even as they help their children to manage their...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police Vernon Ellis, the commanding officer for the St James Police Division, believes that consideration should be given to digitising the approval process for applications for parties and other social...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROMAINE KERR, one of three airport workers who has been on trial for allegedly attempting to smuggle 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight destined for Canada in 2021, was discharged by the St James Parish Court following a no-...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT WAS a sombre atmosphere at the Kings Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mt Salem, St James on Sunday as members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), relatives, and other mourners gathered to bid farewell to the late Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: CARL HILL tends to weep silently whenever he thinks of his younger days in the 1960s and 1970s when gangsters in Montego Bay, St James, died due to violence, a fate he himself could have shared as an active gang member at the time....
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...
