WESTERN BUREAU: Transport and Mining Minister Audley Shaw has said that under his administration, the railway system from Montego Bay to Kingston, which has been out of service since 1992, will be reopened. Addressing journalists during Wednesday’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police Vernon Ellis, of the St James Police Division, is reassuring the public that investigations into the shocking murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King are progressing steadily, despite the apparent lack...
WESTERN BUREAU: CAMERYN HARRIS-LOVE, the American woman who allegedly tried to smuggle nearly $15 million worth of cocaine out of Jamaica on December 4, 2021, will stand trial in the St James Parish Court on March 4 and 8 this year. Harris-Love, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH STUDIES ongoing into the possible use of hemp proteins as a means of fighting the COVID-19 virus, Diane Scott, the chief executive officer of the Jamaican Medical Cannabis Corporation group (JMCC), is voicing support for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced that the Government will soon launch an official calendar of events for which persons fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be eligible to attend. Tufton made the...
WESTERN BUREAU: ARTHUR LYNCH, the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) councillor for the Montego Bay South East division, walked out of the St James Parish Court a free man on Tuesday following the dismissal of assault charges that were...
WESTERN BUREAU: A ST James judge has ordered the prosecution in the case against four Sangster International Airport employees, who reportedly tried to smuggle J$88.1 million worth of cocaine into Canada, to ensure that its case file is adequately...
WESTERN BUREAU: CEON KNIGHT, the man charged alongside accused gunwoman Sudeen Hylton in relation to the August 12, 2021, shooting death of Richard Baker in Glendevon, St James, will need to secure legal representation before his next appearance in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The students of the Salt Spring Primary School in Salt Spring, St James, will now be able to walk along the roadway to and from school in a much safer environment, following Thursday’s official handover of the Jamaica Social...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE RECENT calls for the Government to suspend face-to-face classes because of concerns about further COVID-19 spread, particularly with the Omicron variant having been confirmed in Jamaica, Education Minister Fayval Williams...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the confirmed local presence of the Omicron strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, the Western Regional Health Authority’s (WRHA) regional director, St Andrade Sinclair, is confident that the medical facilities under his...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court denied an application to vary the bail conditions for Kadisha Thomas-Jackson, a British resident who allegedly tried to smuggle one pound of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) Chairman Godfrey Dyer is hitting back against reports of increased numbers of hotel guests testing positive for COVID-19, arguing that those visitors who are confirmed to have the virus are only a...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT AND Mining Minister Audley Shaw says that Jamaica must play a significant amount of ‘catching-up’ to return to the potential for economic growth, which was at the nation’s fingertips up to 1971, less than a decade after it...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) gave now-retired firefighter Dolfin Doeman a noteworthy send-off during its first monthly meeting for 2022 with a citation praising his contributions to the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) since...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ANCHOVY High School in Anchovy, St James, has launched a yearlong series of events to celebrate its 50th anniversary as an institution, starting with the recent swearing-in of its past students’ association’s 2022-2024 executive...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fire investigators were working up to late Sunday afternoon to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed three shops at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, earlier in the day, resulting in losses of up to $3...
WESTERN BUREAU: TREYA PICKING, an environmental officer at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), is advising residents of Montego Bay, St James, not to be alarmed by crocodiles living in the western city’s lagoon near the Bogue...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS Jamaica continues to endure a wave of murders and other violent crimes in the early weeks of 2022, two western Jamaica stakeholders are urging parents to be more proactive in raising their children and to closely monitor their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith is calling for mutual collaboration between schools, parents, and communities for the development of students, as the absence of any one of these stakeholders will result...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH A number having been murdered in St James since the start of the year, Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams is urging the Government to fast-track legislation that will severely punish perpetrators of gun crimes and persons who...
WESTERN BUREAU: NURSES ASSOCIATION of Jamaica (NAJ) President Patsy Edwards-Henry believes they are now in “crisis mode”, given the number of healthcare workers across the island who have been impacted by COVID-19, and other illnesses with flu-like...
WESTERN BUREAU: DELEGATES OF the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) will be meeting this Friday, January 14, to determine whether to accept the Government’s latest offer in ongoing wage talks. Providing a brief update on the protracted wage...
WESTERN BUREAU: HOWARD MITCHELL, board member of the Issa Trust Foundation, has made a call for strategic assistance to be given by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in developing the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital in Westmoreland so it can...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS PART of its ongoing thrust to support the local health sector, the Issa Trust Foundation has donated $57 million in COVID-19 personal protective equipment and other medical supplies to the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA...
