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...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says that the community spread of COVID-19 was expected because of the difficulty of tracking people who have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, even as he insists that there is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rayharna WrighT, acting director of employment and career services in the HEART/National Service Training Agency Trust (HEART/NSTA), says as part of its COVID-19 protocol, the entity will be seeking to reduce face-to-face...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sunday’s staging of the Montego Bay Orchid Club’s 29th annual orchid show and sale saw a first-time attendee reaping the reward of his natural green thumb as an orchid plant he found growing in the wild won three awards out of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Garnet Edmonson, regional operations manager for the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), says that teaching children about proper garbage-disposal practices is part of how Jamaicans can take personal responsibility...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Tanique Bailey-Small, medical officer of health for St James, is dismissing reports circulating on social media that cases of COVID-19 are in Jamaica and being covered up, even as she assured that there were no suspected cases...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s long-term tolerance of a culture of violence is to blame for the recent wave of student-centred violence in schools, Richard Troupe, the acting director of the Ministry of Education’s Safety and Security Unit, has said....
WESTERN BUREAU: An American national who was arrested on February 21 after attempting to smuggle 14 pounds of cocaine in two suitcases at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay is to be sentenced on March 10. Percival Joseph, 48, had a tense...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) says better days are on the horizon for ‘home-seeking’ tourism workers in St James as the agency is now formalising plans to provide them with legitimate housing solutions. In outlining the plans...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica poised to improve its standing as an international competitor in the renewable energy sector, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging local interests to become flexible and adaptable to global changes so that potential...
WESTERN BUREAU: Science, Energy and Technology Minister Fayval Williams believes that, in creating policies to promote greater energy efficiency in Jamaica, the phenomenon of persons using electricity that they do not pay for is one issue that must...
WESTERN BUREAU: The western chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association’s (JHTA) is calling for improved ambulance service for local residents albeit admitting that there is no policy in place to have ambulances on-site at hotels for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says that persons employed in solid-waste management will be receiving a 25 per cent salary increase that will take their daily rate from J$2,000 per day to J$2,500 per day effective in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Officials at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) and the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) are dismissing reports of two suspected cases of COVID-19 infection being under quarantine at the Montego Bay-based hospital’s...
WESTERN BUREAU Like the security forces, Gary Howell, the managing director of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), thinks St James’ unplanned communities are helping to foster crime, hence the agency’s drive to legitimise the parish’s informal...
