WESTERN BUREAU: Tempers flared during yesterday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) after the Jamaica Labour Party-led (JLP) majority voted to boot two People’s National Party (PNP) councillors who have missed the last...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE GLOBAL Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) – formerly the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica – is on a mission to boost the stock of personal protective equipment in the public health sector by donating 18,000...
WESTERN BUREAU: PATIENT CARE at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland got a significant boost on Tuesday with a joint donation of several items from the Issa Trust Foundation and Food For The Poor. The items included five patient monitors...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE RESIDENTS and staff of the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Adelphi, St James, were fed and provided with protective gear on Sunday, thanks to the generosity of two prominent individuals in the western region and an established...
Western Bureau: The family of six-year-old Cory-Ann Palmer, who rescued her one-year-old sister from their burning house in Norwood, St James, last November, was among the recipients of care package delivered by a team from the Ministry of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fears emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic have caused concerns about blood donations to spiral at Cornwall Regional, the hospital’s senior medical officer has said. Dr Derrick Harvey made the observation during an interview with...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE A decision has been taken to cut the funding earmarked for the ongoing restoration works at the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s (CRH), top stakeholders say the adjustments, which were made in the Government’s 2020-21 Estimates...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) is seeking to have a dialogue with Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) about devising convenient ways for residents of the parish to pay their property taxes, following reports that payment...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is urging the councillors of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) to educate their constituents on the facts regarding COVID-19, in light of reports of discrimination against persons in the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: The poor quality of the customer service at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has added another layer to the inadequacy at the facility, which is undergoing restoration work, despite being the main...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the 2020 ISSA Boys and Girls’ Championship derailed by COVID-19, Petersfield High School in Westmoreland has decided to provide food, including chickens that were being reared for the athletics team, to the more than 280 needy...
WESTERN BUREAU: CLERGYMEN IN western Jamaica are somewhat cautious about how church services are to be conducted during the upcoming two-week trial period announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday evening as part of the effort to ease...
WESTERN BUREAU: David Martin is staging online workshops to help persons learn a new skill in animation and the digital arts as they spend more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin, a Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE)...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justices of the Peace (JP) in western Jamaica are not being barred from inspecting police lock-ups and seeing inmates, despite reports suggesting that they have been barred from doing so due to concerns that outside persons could...
WESTERN BUREAU: The West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (WJC) has been assisting persons affected financially by the COVID-19 outbreak through a generous outreach programme valued at J$5 million. Pastor Glen Samuels, president of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANCHOVY HIGH School in St James is seeking corporate assistance to support its students who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and for whom the school has, within the past week, provided 30 food packages prepared from its own...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH LIMITED Internet access to support their efforts, Camille Davis-Williams, principal of St Paul’s Primary School in Westmoreland, and her staff, have decided to add a special touch to their mandate to their students by...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a bid to help ease the suffering sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Jamaica Conference (NJC) of Seventh-day Adventists has been dishing out care packages valued at J$2.5 million to 2,000 households across the island....
Western Bureau: ALTHOUGH SCHOOLS have been ordered closed due to the presence of COVID-19 in Jamaica, author and publisher Dr Jermaine Gordon has begun hosting storytelling sessions aimed at schoolchildren, utilising the Zoom conferencing app,...
Western Bureau: Except for the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), in Montego Bay, there is no other public medical facility in western Jamaica that is equipped to handle a case like that of Jodian Fearon, who died under controversial circumstances...
Western Bureau: With the increased pressure brought on by the onset of COVID-19, Carmen Johnson, president of the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), is calling for greater support for the nation’s nurses as it relates...
WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says the entity has counselling services for the relatives of persons who died from COVID-19. The WRHA boss made the announcement in the aftermath...
WESTERN BUREAU: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn believes that several laws, including the Disaster Risk Management Act and the Cybercrime Act, should be amended, allowing for harsher penalties when persons use technology to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although taking a financial hit with coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings making allowance for no more than 10 persons present at each service, local churches are still pressing on with their mandate as stewards of their...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA) is currently awaiting the Ministry of Education’s decision on whether the island’s independently run schools will be getting state relief in light of the impact of the coronavirus...
