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...
WESTERN BUREAU: New parks and green spaces were officially opened at the Lethe and Bickersteth primary and infant schools in St James on Thursday, giving children in the surrounding communities safe and natural spaces to play. The spaces were...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHEENA HEADLEY, the bank employee who was arrested after the police reportedly found cocaine valued at $85 million in her motor vehicle, and her husband Chad Headley, are scheduled to make their next appearance before the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHAVAE SCALE, a civil engineer, social media manager, and graphic designer from the Rose Heights community in St James, has been crowned as the 2022 St James Festival Queen, edging out nine other competitors to claim the title...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR ANTHONY Taylor, chairman of the St James Festival Queen Committee, believes that avenues should be opened for a wider pool of venues to host the annual Miss Jamaica Festival Queen finals outside of Kingston to provide a greater...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans are being urged to practise water conservation, where possible, amid forecasts of below-normal rainfall levels for this year and notices of scheduled water disruptions as the National Water Commission (NWC) prepares for...
WESTERN BUREAU: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES to reach high-level goals has become a way of life for 29-year-old Shadane Ferraro, who last month became the first Jamaican and the first international student to give the George Washington University (GWU)...
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...
