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...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MAIA Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation is making a fresh appeal for legislation to provide support for persons with autism, including employment for high-functioning autistic persons and protection from various types of...
WESTERN BUREAU: TUESDAY’S MAJOR seizure of $88 million worth of cocaine and a large sum of United States and Canadian currency in western Jamaica has triggered a multinational investigation, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has...
WESTERN BUREAU: MAIA CHUNG, founder of the Maia Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation, is urging Jamaicans who may have information concerning the January 13 murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King to tell what they know, in order to aid the...
WESTERN BUREAU: GORDON BROWN, the attorney for businessman Michael Issa, is booked to stand trial in the St James Parish Court on July 21 for obstruction of justice in relation to a case of resisting arrest and indecent language concerning his...
WESTERN BUREAU: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says that she has instructed the members of her office to contact the authorities if they receive letters that are purported to have been witnessed by justices of the peace (JPs...
Jamanda Kinglocke was still in disbelief as she looked Wednesday at the boulder that smashed into her makeshift board house in Kilmarnock, Westmoreland, two days earlier, which would have endangered the lives of her four young children had the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Youth Education Support (Jamaica YES) non-profit organisation recently gave a boost to the local education sector by partnering with the Texas-based Globe Life Financial Services Company to outfit the St Mary-based...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA slowly returns to some semblance of normality following the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Montego Bay’s Acting Mayor Richard Vernon is urging young people to get involved in farming, in order to bolster Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING LAST month’s fire at a section of the Retirement disposal facility near Granville, St James, some councillors at the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) are adamant that the situation at the waste disposal site, which...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has ordered the parish’s local health authorities to immediately address reports that only a small number of food vendors who operate in St James are duly equipped with food handler’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three wanted men were among 49 persons arrested by the St James police in a recent 14-day surge operation across the parish and several slapped with charges, including murder, shooting and rape. “We saw an increase in serious crimes...
WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators in western Jamaica are calling for security to be beefed up in light of an attack on a security guard by a parent at a St James-based institution earlier this week. On Monday, a 54-year-old security guard at...
WESTERN BUREAU: ONE OF the attorneys representing businessman Michael Issa, the stepfather of nine-year-old Gabriel King, who was murdered on January 13, has challenged his client’s current charges before the court, which stem from a previously...
WESTERN BUREAU: IN LIGHT of several incidents of school violence involving students across Jamaica, the Peace Management Initiative’s (PMI) western Jamaica branch is prepared to ramp up its school intervention programme which was recently revived...
