WESTERN BUREAU: Dana Minto, the St James nurse charged with causing death by dangerous driving, following a traffic accident that claimed two lives in 2017, pleaded guilty in the St James Circuit Court on Tuesday and will be sentenced on April 30....
WESTERN BUREAU: As fears of the deadly coronavirus continue to swirl globally, the health authorities in western Jamaica say they have fine-tuned plans for rigorous screening at all ports of entry and the establishment of an isolation zone at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The newly formed past students’ association of the Anchovy High School in St James has announced an ambitious plan to transform the school into the high school of choice in western Jamaica, ahead of the school’s 50th anniversary...
WESTERN BUREAU: Owen Speid, the outspoken president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is calling on the government and local organisations to move swiftly to address the ongoing dengue crisis in Jamaica, which has claimed 64 lives over...
WESTERN BUREAU: A High Court judge yesterday sharply criticised the police’s failure to stop romantic liaisons between children on the grounds of the St James Parish Library, which sits across from the St James Parish Court in downtown Montego Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: The local education sector is expected to take another hit from the lure of so-called greener pasture as, according to Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid, more teachers are poised to leave the island for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following emergency surgery this week, doctors have determined that a nurse who fell down a flight of stairs at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, was not as badly injured as previously thought....
WESTERN BUREAU: Disgruntled over working conditions at the St James Parish Library in Montego Bay, including the facility being used for sexual liaisons, staff yesterday mounted placards of protest to press home their discontentment. Marilee Moodie...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nichala Facey, the St James man who allegedly killed an elderly woman by setting her on fire last April, will have his case committed to the St James Circuit Court for trial on April 20. Facey, who is charged with murder in relation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Janet Silvera, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), is calling for Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips to meet with stakeholders in western Jamaica to iron out...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Public Health Department has opened up a new front in its rodent eradication campaign with the formation of small operational groups with local businesses and other stakeholders to spearhead the drive. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be seeking dialogue with the National Water Commission (NWC) to determine what remedial action will be taken to supply water to rural communities in the parish during the planned...
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Vernon Ellis, the commander in charge of the St James Police Division, says there were no ulterior motives in the police’s failure to provide its mandated monthly report at the last two sittings of the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although the restorative justice process is being promoted as a way of resolving disputes and reducing the number of court cases being sent for trial, at least two stakeholders in the process differ on how well informed the public...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is appealing to residents of St James to exercise greater responsibility with their garbage disposal, including motorists whose habit of throwing garbage out of their cars contributes to the parish’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James recorded one confirmed death from dengue fever in the past year, medical officer of health for the parish, Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, has revealed. While addressing Thursday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Member of parliament for St James North West, Dr Horace Chang, has announced plans for the construction of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) school in Norwood, which is located in his constituency. The school...
WESTERN BUREAU: A High Court judge used Tuesday’s start to the St James Circuit Court’s Hilary session to warn prospective jurors in St James that he would not accept reprisal fears or health challenges as a valid basis for them to be excused from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pastor Glen Samuels, president of the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (WJC), wants pastors and church leaders to do more to retain their young people’s membership in order to keep the youth from falling into crime...
WESTERN BUREAU: Little Daniel Duval Thomas evidently couldn’t wait to be the first child born at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James, crashing the New Year’s party three months premature despite his mother’s efforts to delay the delivery....
WESTERN BUREAU: The Maldon Primary School family in Maldon, St James, will start the 2020 school term mourning the sudden death of principal Audrey Bernard-Kilbourne on Boxing Day. Bernard-Kilbourne, who hailed from the Stonebrooke community in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following reports that there are at least two suspected cases of malaria in Jamaica, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is giving assurance that his organisation is equipped to treat...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the western Jamaica arm of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), Reverend Everton Jackson, is strongly urging the Government to reconsider its decision to cut funding for the violence-intervention programme, arguing...
England McCrane, the woman arrested and charged after allegedly conning several residents in western Jamaica out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while operating under the guise of being a certified medical doctor, had the case against her...
Eighteen-year-old Shawn Lyons, a dance enthusiast and a student of the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf in Granville, St James, is determined to show that deaf people can be worthwhile contributors to Jamaica’s workforce, despite having lost...
