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...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica’s 60th Independence day less than a month away, Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams is reminding Jamaicans to treat the country’s national symbols with greater respect. Williams cited the misuse of Jamaica’s flag and lack...
WESTERN BUREAU: WESTERN JAMAICA-based family therapist Dr Beverly Scott says that many instances of abuse of elderly persons take place because the abusers are carrying out a form of revenge for ill treatments committed against them in earlier...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROBERT MORGAN, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for information, has declared that the modern media must be willing to evolve its practices to match technology’s evolution or lose a...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA shifts from analogue television to the new ATSC 3.0 digital technology, one broadcast consultant is cautioning that transition be managed carefully with consideration for the effect on cost and the local environment. Gary...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dominican Republic Ambassador Angie Shakira Martinez Tejera is urging parents to give adequate attention to their children in order to foster their academic and personal development. She made the call at Sunday’s school-leaving...
WESTERN BUREAU: BROADCASTING COMMISSION Executive Director Cordel Green is resolute that with Jamaica’s switchover to ATSC 3.0 television transmission earlier this year, analogue must completely give way to digital by 2023. Speaking to journalists...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sunday afternoon saw a jubilant celebration from the John Rollins Success Primary School’s graduating class of 2022, as they honour their status as the St James-based school’s first cohort who had successfully completed the blended-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oral Johnson, the businessman who was reportedly held with more than 19 pounds of cocaine by the police during an operation in Coral Gardens, St James, on April 26, is set to stand trial in the St James Parish Court on October 6....
WESTERN BUREAU: Following the recording of one local case of monkeypox, Dr Derek Harvey, the senior medical officer (SMO) at the Cornwall Regional Hospital [CRH] in St James, says that the Type A facility can be repurposed as necessary to treat any...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) has announced that it will soon hold a gospel concert as part of continued fundraising efforts in support of the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s (CRH) ongoing restoration. This...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oral Heaven, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), has vowed that his organisation’s newly formed Cornwall Regional Hospital [CRH] Committee will closely watch the Type A hospital’s ongoing...
WESTERN BUREAU: TEARS AND tributes flowed in equal measure at the Mount Salem Seventh-day Adventist Church in St James, where relatives and friends of 68-year-old Beryl Walters gathered to reflect on her life in a thanksgiving service on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT WAS an emotional, musical and wine-flavoured celebration on Sunday evening as patrons came together for the official launch of transformational speaker Conroy D. Thompson’s second book, Believe: Made for More, at the University...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOR ST James-based youngsters Mackiel Blair and Dane Dyer, Sunday evening will be etched in their memories for a long time as they were both gifted with scholarships valued at a combined $100,000 to aid them in furthering their...
WESTERN BUREAU: A freak storm that damaged sections of Aberdeen High School in St Elizabeth at the weekend has rallied a spirit of resilience among faculty, past students, and residents of the northeastern St Elizabeth community amid relief that no...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police have informed that there are no fresh updates into the killing of nine-year-old Gabriel King’s earlier this year, which sparked national outrage and prompted calls for information to aid the authorities’ probe...
