WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Teachers’ Association (JTA) has publicly honoured Ann-Marie Robb, the teacher who spearheaded the search for Nattalie Dawkins, the Clarendon teacher who went missing on March 30 and was subsequently found dead in bushes...
WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Fayval Williams is refuting the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) claims that educators are being blamed for the challenges in the sector, a phenomenon which the organisation’s president, Winston Smith, said...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Noel Cowell, a senior lecturer at The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Mona School of Business and Management, has taken Prime Minister Andrew Holness to task for failing to include teachers on his Education Transformation...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of Health and Wellness has launched its official COVID-19 vaccination website, which will provide critical information for persons seeking clarity on the protocols and queries surrounding the ongoing drive to achieve...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winston Smith, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), said that teachers should not be blamed when the education sector is hit with challenges, as this adds to the mental distress that educators...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Roy Fairclough, one of western Jamaica’s most prominent lawyers and a member of Jamaica’s Legal Aid Council, died on Sunday morning following a brief period of illness. Fairclough, who was in his early 70s and had...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the nation’s health infrastructure under stress as several hospitals are now beyond their maximum capacity as it relates to bed-space for COVID-19 patients, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is seeking available...
WESTERN BUREAU: With two private schools buckling under pressure from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Faithlyn Wilson, president of the Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA), is predicting that the financial situation of these...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the judicial system in western Jamaica taking a battering from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the shutting down of the parish courts in St James and Westmoreland earlier this week, the St James Health...
WESTERN BUREAU: With recent outbreaks of the coronavirus resulting in the closure of the St James and Westmoreland parish courts, the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) is calling for court sittings to be done virtually, which will allow cases to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the island grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, readjustments are being done for shift assignments and monitoring of oxygen usage at medical facilities in under the umbrella of the the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the restrictions presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, South Florida-based Through Our Eyes Foundation, whose members include several National Football League (NFL) players, is planning an outreach trip to Jamaica for 2022....
WESTERN BUREAU: IT has been 59 years since Jamaica gained Independence from British rule, but 72-year-old farmer Errol Reid of Content, St James, still remembers the celebratory fun and community camaraderie that was on full display in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eighteen-year-old Tianna Smith and 13-year-old Tousaint Desouza, two young members of the Maldon Baptist Church in Maldon, St James, are this year’s recipients of scholarships valued at $20,000 each, courtesy of the church’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James health officials have expressed concern that unregulated entertainment events may pose a greater risk of coronavirus transmission than large parties like the upcoming Dream Weekend series. Parties have been banned for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Ministry of Local Government, has taken a swing at anti-vaxxers who are resisting inoculation with any COVID-19 vaccines, urging them to support the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ ongoing efforts...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says that persons who do not satisfy the Ministry of Health’s protocols for receiving COVID-19 vaccines, including those with medical conditions that would preclude them from receiving their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is asserting that persons who do not get vaccinated against COVID-19 cannot expect to be treated similarly to those who are inoculated against the virus, for which 52,504 infections have been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Should circumstances force the nation’s teachers into another bout of virtual teaching/learning, educators in western Jamaica say the situation is likely to be just as challenging as the last school year as many students are still...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, parish manager for the St James Health Department, says that while he is concerned about potential COVID-19 spread through social events, to include funerals, his department remains vigilant in its efforts to keep...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following reports that some medical professionals are concerned about their mental health in the high-stressed COVID-19 environment, Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) President Dr Mindi Fitz-Henley is urging physicians not...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister and Member of Parliament for St James East Central, Edmund Bartlett, has announced that $500,000 will be allocated towards schoolbook support for the top 30 students who have passed this year’s Primary Exit Profile...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jason Rose, the St James-based pastor charged with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl; his wife Kemhi Rose and the teenager’s mother, who along with him are also facing a charge of seeking to pervert the course of justice, were...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Cornwall College alumni associations of South Florida, Canada, and New York came up big for the Montego Bay-based school last week, collectively donating some 115 Dell laptop computers, valued at $10 million, to the school. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison says that while she stands firmly on the side of disciplining children in order to teach them proper behaviour, she is totally against using physical abuse as a disciplinary measure. “...
