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...
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...
