WESTERN BUREAU: Agriculture Minister Floyd Green says he is confident that the construction of a hot-water treatment plant, which is slated to be completed during the current financial year, will help to open more doors for Jamaica in the mango-...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the number of in-house COVID-19 patients at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) now down to 18, the Western Regional Health Authority’s (WRHA) clinical coordinator, Dr Delroy Fray, says that plans can proceed to gradually...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican teachers who fraudulently mark up students’ School-Based Assessment (SBA) coursework have been condemned for undermining the integrity of the education system and robbing children of valuable experience needed for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) President Janet Silvera is calling for the stricter enforcement of law and order in downtown Montego Bay, particularly with taxi operators, as part of the effort to reduce...
WESTERN BUREAU: Academically minded young women from the parishes of St James and Westmoreland are being given an opportunity to receive a newly launched scholarship, created in honour of the similarly academic and philanthropic Carmen Victoria...
WESTERN BUREAU: LLOYD DISTANT, the president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), is renewing the call for business operators to join Jamaica’s formal economic system instead of lingering in the informal sector, which includes unincorporated...
Journalism lost a giant last week with the passing of Michael Sharpe. Sharpe’s legacy was never in question, though the 65-year-old seemed far from calling it a day before his untimely passing. He had more to do. That zeal for journalism was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Shannon Worton, assistant director of school-related psychological assessments and clinical interventions at the Florida-based Nova Southeastern University, is dismissing claims that vaccines cause autism. “There have been some...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Maia Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation (MCADF) is calling for inter-ministerial cooperation between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, and other stakeholders, to provide proper social support for people...
WESTERN BUREAU: Economist Johnique Francis is warning that if Jamaica’s politicians do not adequately address the problem of gender-based violence, that neglect will result in a lack of trust that will impact the nation’s economic opportunities. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Michael Sharpe came under the wings of news editor Janet Mowatt at RJR in 1983, she recalled the energy and enthusiasm that the cub reporter had on assignments. It was that youthful zeal that colleagues say propelled him to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Abigail Malcolm, caretaker councillor for Westmoreland’s Cornwall Mountain division and a survivor of domestic violence, wants stronger support systems to be put in place for women who want to leave abusive relationships, as well as...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the embattled Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright grapples with assault allegations, several residents of the constituency came out in a show of force in Savanna-la-Mar and Whithorn on Friday to protest...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pointing out that many of the accepted forms of punishment do not work on insolent children, Clifton Boys’ Home Chairman the Reverend Hartley Perrin said that the probe into alleged beatings at the facility brings into fresh focus...
WESTERN BUREAU: With their prayers answered for the Government to relax tight COVID-19 restrictions which allow only a few congregants to gather for worship, a number of clergymen are pleased that some members unable to access online streams will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two staff members have been suspended as the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and the board of the Clifton Boys’ Home probe allegations that more than half of the wards at the home had been beaten with a switch....
WESTERN BUREAU: With what appears to be a runaway success in Jamaica’s recent COVID-19 vaccination drive, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says he is not concerned with the anti-vaccination...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Jasford Gabriel has dismissed declarations from Education Minister Fayval Williams of declining classroom engagement time with students. Gabriel said that he has received no reports of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Sean Lavery Faith Hall in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, was abuzz with activity on Sunday as residents came out in droves to receive their vaccination against COVID-19, as part of the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ four-day...
WESTERN BUREAU: There was a war of words at last Thursday’s monthly sitting of the St James Municipal Corporation as several councillors accused their Mt Salem division counterpart, Kerry Thomas, of ingratitude as it relates to the effectiveness...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the Government is looking into ways to address what he has described as an upsurge in acquaintance violence, where close family members and persons involved in relationships are using...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang believes that the piloted E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) linking customers in St Andrew; Portmore, St Catherine; and Montego Bay, St James, with food service providers during...
WESTERN BUREAU: With church services having to be restricted due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, some congregations in Jamaica had mixed results in seeking to conduct Easter Sunday services this year, as some held worship online while others...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James has exceeded its vaccination target for the first phase of COVID-19 inoculation, says Lennox Wallace, parish manager for the health department. Wallace said that some sites doubled or tripled their goals. “At one site, it...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the parish manager for the St James Health Department, says that the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay is still a worrisome potential site for COVID-19 spread in the parish despite a COVID-19 testing and education...
