WESTERN BUREAU: MOTORISTS AND and other road-users traversing the streets of Montego Bay, St James, will have to brace for traffic changes in coming days as the National Works Agency (NWA) prepares to do repair work on a section of the city’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon has taken a swipe at Jamaican expatriates who seek greener pastures at the expense of developing their homeland. Vernon insisted that patriotic youths should stay in Jamaica and build their...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTMORELAND Parish Court’s usual handling of judicial matters momentarily came to a halt on Tuesday as Warren Scavella, one of the three men accused of stealing $2 million worth of cellular phones during the Dream Weekend party...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY’S night skies were lit up with colourful displays on Sunday as the special 300-drone showcase made its way to the western city for the Jamaica 60 Western Gala, part of the island’s diamond jubilee celebrations. Hundreds...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams is recovering after he complained of feeling ill during Sunday evening’s Jamaica 60 Western Gala, briefly triggering a halt to the proceedings. Williams had earlier taken part in segments of the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that Jamaica has now recorded its third confirmed case of the monkeypox virus, with the latest patient being the result of local transmission. The two previous cases...
WESTERN BUREAU: Demar Hines and Nekorah Grey have shone brightly to make their home constituency of St James Southern proud, having respectively become the constituency’s top-performing boy and the top-performing girl in this year’s Primary Exit...
WESTERN BUREAU: The three men who were arrested following the recovery of $2 million worth of electronic gadgets that were stolen during the recent Dream Weekend party series in Negril, Westmoreland made their first court appearance in Wednesday,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy House Speaker Juliet Holness is holding on firmly to her stance against corporal punishment as a means of disciplining children despite criticism since she first voiced her position in 2016. “In my observation over the years...
WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF this weekend’s upcoming Jamaica 60 Grand Gala and other Independence celebrations, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is urging citizens to take responsibility for their safety and personal property. That caution was...
WESTERN BUREAU: AMID JAMAICA’S ongoing celebration of its 60th anniversary of emancipation and independence since 1962, one St James-based minister is calling on citizens and political representatives to exhibit repentance for crime and other...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEXTER WILLIAMS and Rebecca Keane, two primary-school students in St James East Central, have distinguished themselves as the top-performing Primary Exit Profile (PEP) students following this year’s sitting of the exam, after two...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jason Wedderburn, Elvis Johnson, and Daniel Hanson, the fishermen who were arrested following last November’s seizure of over 2,000 pounds of cocaine off the coast of Black River, St Elizabeth, will know on December 1 whether the...
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) stalwart politician, Michael Stern, is advising that Jamaica’s leadership should seek to provide skills training for young people in order to ensure they are qualified to fill the country’s most needed...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHEENA AND Chad Headley, the St James couple who are charged in relation to the reported seizure of $85 million worth of cocaine at their home in June, are now contending with alleged environmental breaches concerning the housing of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Retired veteran parliamentarian Pearnel Charles Sr has rallied farmers to form a brigade to stave off the attacks and plunder of produce and livestock. Charles, the father of Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charies Jr,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Deputy Leader Pearnel Charles Sr is urging political representatives to intensify efforts to have students displaced from the education system by the pandemic back into the classroom to finish their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, says that efforts are being made to incorporate renewable energy systems into the supply systems to reduce electricity costs at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 22-year-old farmer who reportedly injured a police officer’s hand during a fight in downtown Montego Bay, St James, was offered bail on Friday. Brian Clarke, who is of a Sunderland address, is charged with assault occasioning...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ECONOMIC Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) has projected that with the country’s wage-to-GDP ratio already breaching the-nine-per-cent limit for this fiscal year, the Ministry of Finance will have to make new regulations to...
WESTERN BUREAU: KEITH DUNCAN, chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), said that with Jamaica having at least 500,000 people who are currently not part of the local labour force, programmes must be put in place to adequately...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) came in for scathing criticism during the monthly meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) for its failure to keep an accurate record of its efforts in prosecuting...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH GARBAGE collection having been cause for major concern in sections of Jamaica, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reiterated that the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will soon be divested of its current...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness is warning school administrators whose budgets may have been affected by the Government’s no-tuition policy, that they are not to use that situation as an excuse to keep students from attending classes...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] is gearing up for a stakeholders’ meeting with members of the St James Police Division after the western city’s Emancipation and Independence celebrations, in order to address several...
