WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry Thomas, councillor of the Mt Salem division in the St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC], is calling on the island’s municipal corporations to advocate more strongly for fixed local government elections, if they hope to gain...
WESTERN BUREAU: GREGORY ROBERTS, the man accused of the 2017 murder of 15-year-old Green Pond High School student Shineka Gray, will have to wait for another six months for his case to proceed to trial. He has been in custody for the past six years...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man accused of killing social media personality Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, will have to wait until March 21 to know if his bail hearing will be addressed by the court. When Patterson appear in the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE cost of renovating the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s [CRH] in Montego Bay now at a whopping $14.1 billion, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is still insisting that renovating, instead of following the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President-elect Leighton Johnson, who on Monday visited Mount Alvernia High School in St James where teachers were staging a sit-in to register their dissatisfaction with the proposed compensation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Security guard Rohan Rose, one of two men charged in connection with the death of popular media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is expected to get a clearer picture of the legal challenges awaiting him following...
WESTERN BUREAU: The local Islamic community has joined relatives and residents of a number of St James communities in distancing themselves from Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal, whose sentencing was again postponed in New York on Monday after he was...
WESTERN BUREAU: LATOYA MINNETT-Hall, public education and special projects manager in the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA), is lamenting how children are being sexualised to the point that they are no longer allowed to enjoy their formative...
WESTERN BUREAU: DARIEN HENRY, principal of the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) in St James, is strongly recommending that Jamaica’s education system should get proactive in arresting the widening wave of pornography addiction among the nation’...
WESTERN BUREAU: REVEREND DAVEWIN Thomas, pastor of the Burchell Memorial Baptist Church in Montego Bay, St James, is suggesting that a national day of mourning be put in place for Jamaicans who have died under various circumstances, to allow for...
WESTERN BUREAU: DETECTIVE SERGEANT Sheldon Dobson, the policeman whose infant daughter died after being locked in his car at the Black River Police Station last January, will have to wait until February 28 to know whether he will stand trial in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: An outstanding forensic certificate has forced the St James Parish Court to delay the continuation of the case against Ashanta Ferguson, the British woman charged last November in relation to the seizure of two kilogrammes of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Customs Agency has been praised by a senior manager for innovating during the COVID-19 era and surmounting challenges presented by the pandemic. That response has included renewed attention on the improvement of customer...
WESTERN BUREAU: AMID OUTRAGE over reports of fraud at financial institutions, including a $3-billion scam at investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), a St James pastor has warned against casting judgement too quickly on the accused...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, minister of state in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in the Office of the Prime Minister, is recommending that media workers should have a pension scheme put in place in order to support them...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORLEN DEERS, a resident of Glendevon in St James, is bracing for a head-on collision with the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) over his worries about the absence of a sidewalk along Felicity Road in the community. It is a...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be pushing for legislation to mandate representatives of state agencies such as the National Works Agency (NWA) to attend the corporation’s monthly sittings, in light of that agency’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FATHER’S House transitional home in St James, which has been recently linked to the scandal-hit Embracing Orphans charity’s executive director, Carl Robanske, is currently still in operation, albeit with scant and inconsistent...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR FRANCINE Phillips-Kelly, the medical officer of health for St James, is urging fresh caution and renewed vigilance in preventing COVID-19 spread and infection, as 15 positive cases of the disease have been confirmed in the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF this year’s 43rd annual staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), the initiative’s chairman, Reverend Samuel McCook, says the event is an avenue for the Church to exercise its influence in combating...
WESTERN BUREAU: REVEREND SAMUEL McCook, the chairman of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), has said that religious leaders are playing a key role in helping the island tackle social ills, including crime and violence. McCook expressed...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO MONTHS after fire gutted her home and destroyed her sewing equipment and goods in Wakefield, Trelawny, 58-year-old Pearly McLean is facing an uncertain future as she has been unable to make her own living since then. While...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CORNWALL Bar Association (CBA) is throwing its support behind statements recently issued by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes questioning the increasing use of the term ‘violence producers’ in reference to persons who are accused by the...
