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...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite losing her hearing as a toddler, Ruth-Ann Collins is not about to let her disability stand in the way of her dream of becoming an executive chef who oversees kitchen operations in a hotel or restaurant. “I want to reach the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Forestry Department has announced that its National Mangrove Management Plan, which was slated for completion earlier this year, will be ready by the end of August, even as the organisation’s Chief Executive Officer...
WESTERN BUREAU: A chilling threat by her 14-year-old son that he will kill himself if she does not get him out of the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre has been causing a Westmoreland woman great anguish as her twin sons allege they are being...
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...
