Western Bureau: Three hundred students from 17 schools in St James were the grateful recipients of $5 million in school supplies provided by the New Fortress Energy company, which had a somewhat scaled-down back-to-school fair on the grounds of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government might engage security guards to help enforce Jamaica’s COVID-19 health regulations because of persistent breaches, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said. “There are still too many individuals who have...
WESTERN BUREAU: Though mass gatherings are already prohibited under coronavirus legislation, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has cranked up its public-education machinery to promote compliance with safety laws as Jamaica’s election...
Western Bureau: Amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, where Jamaica has recorded some 1,023 cases and 14 deaths, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is voicing hope that the country will recover from the crisis due to the strong spirit of its people...
WESTERN BUREAU: After approximately 30 years without access to running water in their homes, residents of Flower Hill, St James, are now singing praises following an official ceremony commissioning a supply system in the community on Friday. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the country celebrated 58 years of independence amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and the war on crime, Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis has made a fresh appeal for Jamaicans to do their part to prevent the spread of the virus and...
Western Bureau: Anthony Stultz, president of the Godfrey Stewart High School Past Students’ Association’s local chapter, has promised that his organisation will play its part to upgrade the school’s feeding programme, to include the creation of an...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forensic psychiatric expert Dr Myo Kyaw Oo has lamented the shortage of psychiatrists to treat Jamaica’s approximately 240 prison inmates who have mental-health issues. Oo, the only doctor in Jamaica who is licensed to do forensic...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mercia Frasier, the mother of Mario Deane, is now nursing bittersweet emotions after a judge ruled yesterday that the two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in relation to her son’s 2014 death should be released. “Honestly, I...
WESTERN BUREAU: With increasing calls for the construction of the long-awaited western justice court complex in Montego Bay to get under way, three years after its initial announcement in 2017, the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) has said additional...
WESTERN BUREAU: The much-anticipated plea and case management hearing for Rahjief Morgan, the man accused of last January’s stabbing death of University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) student Demar Stennett, has been rescheduled to October 8,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kaylia Pinnock, the 15-year-old Anchovy High School student who is battling a stage-two brain tumour, got some much-needed financial assistance yesterday when she was presented with a cheque for J$1.4 million by the school’s past...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several students from the Sudbury All-Age and Infant School in Orange, St James, were ecstatic yesterday after they were presented with roughly 230 bags and school supplies by Caribbean Footsteps, a newly registered charity. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Farmers, small business operators, and shoppers in St James are commending the Social Development Commission (SDC) for staging the Rose Hall Community Market and Business Fair on Thursday, which provided them with a marketing...
Western Bureau: The case against Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the inmates charged with murder in relation to the 2014 death of Mario Deane, has been delayed until July 29 to allow enough time for the men’s attorneys to receive an outstanding...
Western Bureau: Kenute Hare, director of the Ministry of Transport and Mining’s Road Safety Unit (RSU), is warning motorists that speed limit signs have nothing to do with road safety, noting that it depends on a driver’s ability to react to a...
WESTERN BUREAU: High-school students in western Jamaica, who sat for yesterday’s first set of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) papers, were in full compliance with the Ministry...
WESTERN BUREAU: After almost two weeks of surveillance following an explosion of COVID-19 cases in their community, residents of Norwood in St James have expressed satisfaction with the efforts of the health authorities to stem further spread of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Government Senator Charles Sinclair has taken issue with a recent statement by the Opposition leader Dr Peter Phillips who accused the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) led St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) of trying to weaken the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Motorists traversing along Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay, St James, will no longer have to worry about a gaping hole which had been in the structure for at least three years. Three weeks ago, road users complained to The...
Western Bureau: For the seventh consecutive time, the absence of a long-awaited medical psychiatric report has led to a delay in the case against Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the two inmates charged with murder arising from the 2014 death of Mario...
Western Bureau: As Jamaica’s economy continues its steady reopening amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, attorney-at-law Khadrea Folkes, former senior legal officer to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is warning employers to minimise all...
Western Bureau: While applauding the Government’s handling of this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations, with 80 per cent of students getting into their schools of choice, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid says that...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Physiotherapy Department at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay got a much-needed gift on Tuesday when the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) presented the institution with 2,000 face masks and 50 face...
Western Bureau: Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is accusing the Government of failing to capitalise on a clear chance to introduce a national school bus system when schools were reopened on June 8 for students...
