WESTERN BUREAU: Linvern Wright, the president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS), is urging the Government to quickly meet with the nation’s teachers with a view of arriving at an amicable resolution to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister West, wants Jamaica to take advantage of events such as the annual Courts Jamaica-sponsored MoBay City Run to effectively market the country as a health tourism...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sophia McIntosh, coordinator of the University of Technology’s (UTech) western Jamaica campus, wants more of the nation’s youth to seek higher education as at present, only 30 per cent of Jamaica’s population is enrolled at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the deadline for the completion of restoration work on the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) fast approaching, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is hoping to see patients back inside the 400-bed hospital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says that when the ongoing restoration work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James is completed, the Type A health facility will...
WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Andrea Thomas on Tuesday denied bail for Rushawn Patterson, the man charged with the murder of Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, despite his attorney raising health and safety concerns as the prosecution painted him as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica-based family psychologist Dr Beverly Scott wants social workers who are trained in handling mentally ill patients to be assigned to community development committees (CDC), so that they can assist the relatives of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students at the Manning’s School in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, now have an improved opportunity to develop their skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) following last Friday’s official...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James’ longstanding rat infestation problem has resurfaced, and according to Councillor Michael Troupe, the rodents have seemingly relocated from downtown Montego Bay to his Granville Division. Troupe made the statement while...
WESTERN BUREAU: While it remains unclear as to whether there will be fresh wage negotiations between the Jamaica Teachers’ Association [JTA] and the Ministry of Finance, Education Minister Fayval Williams appears to be taking a ‘wait-and-see’...
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...
