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...
WESTERN BUREAU: LIEUTENANT COLONEL Oral Khan, chairman of the Uniformed Youth Groups Secretariat, is urging Jamaicans to show more support for the nation’s uniformed youth groups by joining these service organisations in positions of leadership,...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWENTY AT-RISK young men from several communities in St James have been given an opportunity to improve their marketability for the working world with the launch of the Jamaica Public Service Company’s (JPS) Empowering At-Risk...
WESTERN BUREAU: With calls growing for the death penalty to be reinstated in the island, Charles Clayton, the director of the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s Community Renewal Programme, has cautioned that there is no evidence that capital...
WESTERN BUREAU: George Overton, the director of operations at the Guardsman Group, says that crime in Jamaica has become a business over the past five decades, with the proceeds of various criminal activities being pumped into the country’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James, was filled with musical encouragement as local entertainers showed their support for the first day of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (MBCCI) 2022...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some of Westmoreland’s youth have expressed appreciation for the Ministry of Justice’s newly launched alternative dispute resolution services’ public education campaign, while also voicing disappointment that violence in schools has...
WESTERN BUREAU: While entertainment sector players may be chomping at the bit to resume hosting various social events following the Government’s relaxation of COVID-19 prevention measures, Montego Bay Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon is warning that...
WESTERN BUREAU: JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck has taken a fresh swipe at Jamaica’s prevailing ‘informer fi dead’ culture, declaring that all citizens who speak out against all acts of criminality in their communities should be praised for their...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Library may soon be restored to being a symbol of Montego Bay’s potential for greatness, following Wednesday evening’s revival launch of its Friends of the Library programme to garner support for the parish’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: STAFF AT at the St James Infirmary in Montego Bay have proven themselves capable of managing the safety of 45 elderly residents in their care in case of an earthquake, following an earthquake evacuation drill that was held at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has warned businesses in the parish of increased monitoring to ensure that corporate disaster readiness plans are on par with the authority’s own response and management system. Deputy...
