WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition spokesman on Science and Technology, Julian Robinson, has warned that great care must be taken when sharing sensitive information on the many videoconferencing options on social media. There has been a sharp increase in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The restriction on social gatherings as a result of COVID-19 has not stopped the philanthropic drive of former banker Janet Richards, who has stepped up her outreach charity projects for at-risk children in St James, which she has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, says he is confident that the Mount Salem-based health facility can adequately facilitate COVID-19 patients, even if the numbers increase...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Homer Davis is calling on residents of St James not to selfishly deprive others of water when the commodity is trucked to their communities, as an adequate supply of water is needed for proper sanitation to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis has instructed representatives of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) not to collect fees from vendors at the Charles Gordon Market before the official opening time to prevent a violation of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Workers in the essential services in St James, including medical personnel and firefighters, are calling for greater protection as they work on the front lines responding to emergencies even as the island battles the coronavirus...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some local private schools that were forced to close their doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic might never reopen after the viral plague ends unless they receive government subventions to plug funding deficits. Dr Faithlyn Wilson...
WESTERN BUREAU: LAMBERT JOHNSON, president of the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA), says it would be foolish and illegal for any COVID-19 patient to sneak out of Jamaica at this time, as was the case in Grenada recently, when a man left that country...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition spokesperson on Justice, Donna Scott Mottley, has called for a thorough investigation into the actions of correctional officers monitoring incarcerated dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel, following a recent seizure of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Being a society with a social interaction tradition heavily based on physical contact, renowned western Jamaica-based family therapist Dr Beverly Scott says the sudden change in social norms, brought on by the onset of the COVID-19...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the all-round dislocation caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says that the multibillion-dollar restoration work at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) will continue, despite...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the global spread of COVID-19 becoming increasingly ominous, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says it is boosting its isolation room and protective gear capacity for hospitals for which it has oversight. Errol...
WESTERN BUREAU: ERROL GREENE, the regional director for the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is making a fresh appeal to citizens not to violate the Government’s restriction on social gatherings, one of the measures put in place to reduce...
WESTERN BUREAU: Private schools have urged the Government to outline whether they will receive a COVID-19 stimulus to stay afloat amid mass closures that will last for at least a month. Dr Faithlyn Wilson, president of the Jamaica Independent...
WESTERN BUREAU: IN A bid to observe the COVID-19 protocol, the St James Circuit Court on Wednesday shifted the next hearing date for the case against Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the inmates charged with murder in relation to the 2014 death of...
Western Bureau: OWEN SPEID, the outspoken president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, is calling for an increase in pension allocations for retired and disabled teachers, who are among Jamaica’s most vulnerable citizens, as the nations put...
WESTERN BUREAU: ATTORNEY-AT-LAW LAMBERT Johnson, the president of the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA), says his organisation is fully supportive of the regulations put in place to dictate how many persons can be in a courtroom at any one time, and...
WESTERN BUREAU: It would appear that the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) is struggling to rigidly enforce strict compliance with the COVID-19 social-distancing protocols and mass-gathering ban. The MoBay hospital’s Accident and Emergency...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Reverend Hartley Perrin, custos of Westmoreland, believes that the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica has given a fresh sense of urgency to completing the rebuilding of the Clifton Boys’ Home so that the 28 displaced...
WESTERN BUREAU: The long-awaited trial of Kerry-Ann Cunningham, the St James teacher who is charged in connection with the death of a student who was killed in a car accident at the Anchovy Primary School in St James in June 2018, was last Tuesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Courtney Morgan and Pauline Smith, who recently pleaded guilty in relation to the theft of 19 guns and several rounds of ammunition from a security company they operate in Montego Bay, had their sentencing put off yesterday until...
WESTERN BUREAU: The COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak which has emerged as a significant global threat, killing close to 1,000 persons globally, appears to be an even greater threat to persons who smoke or use narcotics, especially minors, says the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay residents have been urged to be more proactive in managing mosquito-control activities in order to prevent a potential collision of dengue fever with the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far recorded 12 confirmed cases. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: The case against England McCrane, the woman who allegedly conned residents of western Jamaica out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while posing as a medical doctor, has again been deferred by the St James Parish Court until May...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has revealed that the court case in which it was embroiled with gay-rights lobby Montego Bay Pride, after the corporation refused to allow the group to use the Montego Bay Cultural Centre...
