WESTERN BUREAU: Overcast skies and the threat of rain could not dampen Sunday’s Christmas cheer at the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Adelphi, St James, where representatives of the Janet Richards Foundation and the Usain Bolt Foundation came...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite expectations of increased travel as many Jamaicans fly in or out to visit family for Christmas, even while the winter tourist season picks up amid relaxed curfew hours, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has...
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, was offered bail in the sum of $1.5 million yesterday after her Jamaican surety was brought...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) is calling for persons who are caught illegally dumping garbage in community spaces to be severely prosecuted, saying the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is facing major...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James-based Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) is being accused of discrimination by a former nurse, who says she was wrongfully and maliciously dismissed from her job in the diagnostic centre because of her age, just months...
WESTERN BUREAU: While applauding the latest initiatives to establish free community Wi-Fi access across Jamaica, including a new Internet hotspot in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith says greater...
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, has been denied bail due to not having a fixed Jamaican address, following her first appearance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling for the creation of a training institute specialising in Jamaican entertainment and culture, in time for the nation’s 60th anniversary of independence, as a way of acknowledging the tourism...
WESTERN BUREAU: While acknowledging that the current COVID-19 vaccination rate among Jamaica’s tourism workers is at approximately 70 per cent to date, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling on the other 30 per cent to take their jabs in order to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Robert Nesta Morgan, the state minister in the Ministry of Education, says there will be greater emphasis on the development of Jamaica’s early-childhood education sector, including the provision of advancement and training...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 160-year-old Bethlehem Moravian College in Malvern, St Elizabeth, now has an early-childhood centre, which was created specifically for the training of early-childhood education teachers. The new facility, which was officially...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prominent Montego Bay businessman Lachu Ramchandani has been made an honorary fellow by the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC), in recognition of his contributions to the western city’s business community and to western Jamaica’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) is expected to announce its next move in regard to its ongoing wage negotiations with the Government today, following a meeting with its members. Yesterday, NAJ President Patsy Edwards-Henry...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Court of Appeal has issued an order to overturn the 2016 conviction of Russell Samms, who was found guilty and serving time for the 2012 shooting death of 12-year-old Ricardo Dove as he slept at home. A retrial is to take place...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sudeen Hylton, the St James woman facing a murder charge arising from an incident in which Richard ‘Jimmy’ Baker, also of the western parish, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting; and her co-accused, Ceon Knight, appeared in...
WESTERN BUREAU: ONE HUNDRED and twenty women recently benefited from free breast cancer screenings through the efforts of the western Jamaica-based Janet Richards Foundation, in an initiative which was sponsored by the family of the late Gwendolyn...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Alisha Robb-Allen, acting senior director of the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ HIV/STI Unit, says that young people and communities must be empowered to make responsible sexual choices, even while admitting that the ministry...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) is planning to step up its advocacy for the police force and the army to discontinue their practice of asking applicants to take HIV tests even as it pushes for other organisations to stop...
WESTERN BUREAU: Calyssa Walker, the 10-year-old child who suffered a bullet wound during a major shooting incident in downtown Montego Bay on October 6, is desperately in need of financial help to secure the US$50,000 (J$7.8 million) needed for...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) says it is looking forward to a planned meeting in December with members of the judiciary and other stakeholders to discuss the treatment of inmates held under the recently imposed states of public...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has doubled down on his intentions to commission a case study on the lengthy rehabilitation of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, in order to avoid...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mindi Fitz-Henley, president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), has said that members acting contrary to the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts by discouraging citizens from taking the jab without sound...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has announced that with some 300 Jamaicans seeking a place in the country’s infirmaries, those facilities may soon open their doors to welcome new arrivals of homeless residents, if the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is hopeful that the construction of the Western Children and Adolescents Hospital, which is being built on the grounds of the Cornwall Regional Hospital, in Montego Bay, will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton on Thursday announced that the multi-billion dollar rehabilitation works on the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), in Montego Bay, St James, could begin before the upcoming Christmas season and...
