WESTERN BUREAU: THE APPROXIMATELY 40 students of the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf (CCCD) in Granville, St James, are now better equipped for training and integration into the digital workforce following the installation of the school’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has spurned the Opposition’s latest call for a rollback of the gas tax amid what it dubbed a worsening cost-of-living crisis, noting that this would affect revenue targets. “The Government considered...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has indicated that the Government will be reintroducing a mask mandate as the island sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases, a month after this and other restrictions were fully lifted. “It is going to be a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oral Heaven, the newly appointed president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), intends to meet with the western city’s stakeholders on formalising and continuing ongoing development initiatives as he settles...
WESTERN BUREAU: AGRICULTURE MINISTER Pearnel Charles Jr has indicated that consideration is being given to increase the fines for praedial larceny to upwards of $5 million as part of measures to combat the illicit practice that has plagued Jamaica’...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH REHABILITATIVE work on the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s (CRH) main building projected for completion in 2024, there is now uncertainty as to whether the neighbouring West Jamaica Conference (WJC) of Seventh-day Adventists (WJC...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has ordered that a police station diary, which allegedly includes a report about a lost firearm lodged by businessman Michael Issa, is to be presented on June 1 when Issa’s trial for indecent language,...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOOD VENDORS who ply their wares within Montego Bay and the wider St James will be subjected to food safety checks under a programme to be rolled out by the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) in June to ensure that all such...
WESTERN BUREAU: With two major industrial groups having gone on strike this week and under the treat of a major strike in the civil service next week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday urging Jamaicans to let the country’s industrial...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that plans may need to be put in place for the expansion of Montego Bay, St James, the western city for which a drainage programme is now being considered to address a perpetual issue of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has officially called off its search for 68-year-old Beryl Walters, who was washed away during flood rains in the Westgate area of Montego Bay last month. Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORAL JOHNSON, the businessman who was arrested two weeks ago after reportedly being held with more than 19 pounds of cocaine during a police operation in Coral Gardens, St James, was offered bail in the sum of $1.5 million in the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has implemented a training rotation for nurses to get experience in different clinical areas as it continues to lose specialists to overseas employers, with at least 12 senior nurses at...
WESTERN BUREAU: Communications professional Simone Clarke-Cooper is urging teachers to ensure that they see to their own well-being even as they try to teach their students in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, lest the educators suffer...
WESTERN BUREAU: It has been 18 days since 68-year-old Beryl Walters was washed away in floodwaters in Montego Bay, St James, and the St James Municipal Corporation is entering the final phase of its search effort to locate the elderly woman, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE rehabilitation of Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) projected for completion by December 2024, Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Morais Guy is convinced that the renovation costs could be almost double the Government’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FAMILY of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by a male nurse at Noel Holmes Public Hospital in Hanover last year has praised the courts for granting her justice after the accused’s conviction on Tuesday. Damion Bigby, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has issued a directive that no further media reports be carried on the case of accused St James gunwoman Sudeen Hylton and her co-accused Ceon Knight, who are charged with the 2021 murder of Richard ‘Jimmy...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING REPORTS that the junior doctors’ highly anticipated salary scale meeting with the Ministry of Finance has been postponed, the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) is withholding comment on its own salary concerns until...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has admitted that it is not currently planning to set up a regional office in western Jamaica, despite requests for the establishment of such an office, but is asserting that this should not...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANSORD HEWITT, director general of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), believes that all stakeholders must come together to eradicate Jamaica’s culture of looking the other way in relation to electricity theft and encroachment...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Constabulary Force is remaining tight-lipped on its probe into the discovery of a huge stash of foreign currencies totalling approximately J$600 million, which it seized during an operation in western Jamaica earlier...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has promised to do follow-up work in addressing the years-long vexing issue of sustained water supply for residents of Rhyne Park, St James, who have expressed concern that some anticipated...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST James Parish Court has set a hearing date of June 7 in relation to the manslaughter case against Christiann Johnson, the woman whose two young children died in a house fire after she allegedly left them alone at home on May...
WESTERN BUREAU: SECURITY OFFICER Euton Fearon, whose physical bust-up with a student’s stepfather at the St James-based Corinaldi Primary School on April 11 got caught on video, is to attend mediation sessions with the other man ahead of their...
