WESTERN BUREAU: THIRTY MICRO-ENTERPRISE business operators in Salt Spring, St James, are now proud recipients of a grant valued at $5.8 million to enhance their economic prospects, which they received during Friday’s launch of the Jamaica Social...
WESTERN BUREAU: OMAR SWEENEY, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), is urging beneficiaries of the fund’s grant projects not to sell the equipment they get from programmes meant to bolster their businesses if they no...
WESTERN BUREAU: Floyd Green, minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, is urging veteran farmers and students seeking to enter the agricultural sector to find ways of using modern technology in the industry to make farming a...
WESTERN BUREAU: DERRICK DESLANDES, chairman of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), is calling for young people to be guided and coaxed into giving greater support and being more involved in the development of Jamaica’s agricultural sector,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SYDNEY Pagon STEM Academy in Braes River, St Elizabeth, formerly known as the Elim Agricultural School, was the proud recipient of a new mobile milking machine from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on Wednesday, in...
WESTERN BUREAU: William Knibb Memorial High School Principal Linvern Wright is calling for more resources to be made available to tackle the problem of violence and other delinquent behaviour in schools following the deadly dispute between two...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says that Jamaica must transform its education system so that students can be empowered to become innovators in the globally growing technological age and be qualified to take on the projected 97...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CANADA-based Children of Light Outreach Ministry is on track to continue its mission of supporting students in every parish across Jamaica in achieving their educational pursuits, a mission the group has been dedicated to since...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Jamaica-based Family and Parenting Centre is making plans, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to target men as positive role models and leaders in their families and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Black River High School star student Yhannai Ferron picked up her latest award this week with the Canada-based Children of Light outreach ministry presenting her with her 61st academic accolade. The 17-year-old lower sixth form...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE Flanker, St James community is often categorised as one of western Jamaica’s most volatile areas, so 30 of its residents were recently empowered with violence-prevention skills provided through the Positive Pathways Community...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROHAN CUMMINGS, the western Jamaica businessman who was arrested and charged earlier this month after reportedly being held with US$850,000 (J$130 million) worth of cocaine inside a bus he was driving, was offered bail when he made...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Health Department has revealed that a highly anticipated meeting with London-based recycling company Blue Planet Renewables to discuss potential recycling of waste oil collected from restaurants in the parish, is...
WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH JAMAICA has reported a significantly low number of tuberculosis cases up to 2020, and there have been no significant reports of the disease in recent times, Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA) President Dr Mindi...
WESTERN BUREAU: A call is being sounded from the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) for the Child Development Agency (CDA) and other child-focused organisations to get proactive on investigating recent child killings that have taken place in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Members of St James’ disabled community are lauding the possibility of more doors being opened for them following the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) recent announcement that it will reject building-construction plans that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several councillors at the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) are calling for stronger action to be taken against persons who illicitly dump their garbage across the parish, which may be contributing to a significant increase...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has announced that, as part of efforts to be inclusive of disabled citizens, it will refuse to grant building permits to developers who submit building plans that are not in line with the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HOMER DAVIS, minister of state in the Office of the Prime Minister, is vowing that work on the long-awaited Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project will progress by or before the end of the 2022 calendar year. Speaking on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MONTEGO Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) has kick-started its latest efforts to support the St James-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) by securing $3 million of the $50 million it hopes to raise through its 2022...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett believes that the island could tap the local film industry to become ‘Jollywood’, or the Jamaican Hollywood, in order to market its culture on the small and big screen. Bartlett made the declaration...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gleaner photographer Ashley Anguin made her directorial debut on Sunday with the premiere of her first short film, Link Up, at The University of the West Indies’ Western Jamaica Campus. The film follows Alex, played by Brian...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Michael Troupe, the outspoken minority leader in the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC), found himself muzzled during Thursday’s monthly meeting of the corporation following a testy exchange with other councillors and...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESTAURANT-GOERS AND fast food lovers in Montego Bay, St James, now have brand-new options for where they want to go to appease their cravings, following Thursday afternoon’s official opening of new branches of Popeye’s and Burger...
WESTERN BUREAU: MARK BARNETT, president of the National Water Commission (NWC), has given his assurance that the company will be working to bring its water treatment plant in Martha Brae, Trelawny, up to full capacity by June this year. Barnett...
