WESTERN BUREAU: AUDREY DEER-WILLIAMS, the chief technical director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is dismissing recent suggestions by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang that social-intervention programmes have failed to...
WESTERN BUREAU: After approximately 40 years of inconsistent water supply in their community, residents of Brampton, Trelawny are rejoicing following Thursday’s official commissioning of the National Water Commission’s [NWC] Baron Hill to Samuel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, is urging Jamaicans to speak out against anyone who makes an illegal connection to National Water Commission (NWC) pipelines. He issued...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF several St James communities will become the first beneficiaries of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s newly launched Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) Community Engagement Series,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SAGA surrounding the two men who were caught on video fighting at the St James-based Corinaldi Avenue Primary School on April 11 seems nowhere near ready to end, as they are to continue attending restorative justice sessions...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WATER woes which residents of Westgate Hills, St James, have had to contend with for years will now be a thing of the past, following the official commissioning of a new 100,000-gallon water tank by the National Water Commission...
WESTERN BUREAU: Denise Antonio, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) resident representative in Jamaica, said that a total change of mindset is needed among Jamaicans in order for the SALIENT initiative to work. Antonio made the...
WESTERN BUREAU: NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang is lamenting that Jamaica’s crime rate could have been far lower if half of the $387 billion spent on social-intervention programmes between 2007 and 2018 had been channelled into upgrading...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL BUSINESS operators who attended this week’s eighth Annual International Conference and Exhibition (AICE) 2022 at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James, are praising it for the networking opportunities it...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says that Jamaica is ready to take advantage of potential upcoming investments in the Caribbean region, including those tied to the expansion of special economic zones that are expected to boost the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CORNWALL Bar Association (CBA) has strongly condemned recent remarks made by Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte that persons charged with murder will be denied bail under a new bail act that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared that special economic zones (SEZs), localised areas subjected to preferential economic regulations, must adapt to the world’s perpetual challenges in order to effectively serve the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stung by public criticism over his proposal that the Government appease gangs and referee violent conflicts, State Minister Homer Davis has back-pedalled on his advocacy for the State to negotiate with St James’ underworld. Davis’...
WESTERN BUREAU: RAYMOND PRYCE, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) former deputy general secretary, has taken a jab at the current controversy over the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport’s decision to cancel this year’s Festival...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THE St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] continues to grapple with illicit garbage disposal across the parish, Dwight Crawford, councillor for the Spring Garden Division, wants authorities to publish the full identities of...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT HAS been eight years since the St James Parish Court dismissed a ganja case which had been brought against Tashoya Colquhoun, but the ghost of that old matter continues to follow her around up to present day, and she wants it...
WESTERN BUREAU: Newly appointed chairman for the Jamaica Labour Party’s Cambridge division in St James, businessman Javin Baker, has vowed to improve conditions in the constituency and preserve the legacy of his predecessor, St James Southern...
WESTERN BUREAU: GOVERNMENT SENATOR Charles Sinclair has come out swinging against the Opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) recent criticisms of Prime Minister Andrew Holness over the handling of the National Housing Trust (NHT), arguing that...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH SEVERAL of Jamaica’s teachers having died in the last month under circumstances attributed to the education sector’s increasingly stressful work environment, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has sounded a fresh reminder...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE proposed Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill creating a stir over its proposed mandate of penalising teachers who are not sufficiently qualified, one Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) presidential hopeful is urging...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett wants management systems to be instituted for heritage sites and community locations across Jamaica before any money is spent in future on rehabilitating such venues, which, he says, often end up...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE INVESTIGATING officer in businessman Michael Issa’s case of indecent language, abusive language, and resisting arrest addressed concerns on Wednesday about the lack of entries in the police diary which recorded the defendant’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Central Member of Parliament (MP) Heroy Clarke is appealing to criminals to stop killing the Second City’s youth, following last Wednesday’s triple murder at a birthday party in Rose Heights in Montego Bay. “We notice we...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS OF the St James-based Anchovy High School had a lengthy wait to sit their Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)-administered tests on Monday morning, as auxiliary staff padlocked the front gate as they called for the removal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s national swimmers continue to bemoan the lack of a proper swimming pool in western Jamaica for them to train and hone their skills, even after several of their number have been honoured by the parish’s municipal...
