WESTERN BUREAU: Three persons detained under the ongoing state of public emergency in St James are likely to spend Christmas behind bars because of police defiance of a court order for them to be released, the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) has...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James parents who, along with their attorney-at-law daughter, were arrested and charged for negligence in the theft of 19 guns from a security company they operated in Montego Bay pleaded guilty in the St James Parish Court...
WESTERN BUREAU: Canadian national Fredrick Williams, who was arrested and charged for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Jamaica, will spend Christmas in jail as he was remanded when he appeared in the St James Parish Court yesterday to answer...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Community Development Minister Desmond McKenzie and sector leaders in St James are urging residents of the western parish to exhibit a spirit of unity while seeking to defy crime and violence going into 2020....
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator at the Montego Bay-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CHR), are at odds about the turnaround time for blood samples taken from suspected dengue patients...
WESTERN BUREAU: Songstress Alaine, the main act at Sunday’s staging of the St James Municipal Corporation’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and concert, spoke hope for the holiday period and the upcoming new year in between soulful...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the Granville, St James-based Sam Sharpe Diagnostic and Early Intervention Centre has only been in operation for less than three months, it is providing a welcome avenue for disabled students in western Jamaica to express...
WESTERN BUREAU: Transport Minister Robert Montague says the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) has undertaken upgrading work at two aerodromes in St Elizabeth and Westmoreland as part of an initiative to improve and expand Jamaica’s aviation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Archibald McDonald, chairman of the independent oversight committee monitoring the ongoing restoration work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has given a new date for the completion of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: While dengue remains a major health scare across the island, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is urging Jamaicans not to seek to self-treat with herbal remedies but to seek treatment from trained medical professionals. Tufton...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says that following discussions with the Ministry of Finance, a decision has been taken for some 16 dieticians to be placed in infirmaries across Jamaica to offer better nutritional care to...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a sweeping indictment of critics of security crackdowns across the island, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has insisted that there will be no let-up on states of public emergency (SOE). Holness defended the success of SOEs, which...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is urging shoppers to be mindful of personal safety during the Christmas season, even as he is promising that additional security measures will be put in place in the western city. The St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nichala Facey, the St James man who is charged with the murder of 74-year-old Evelyn Blair, who died a day after she was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire, is to reappear in the St James Parish Court on January 17, 2020...
WESTERN BUREAU: The man charged with the January 5 murder of University of Technology (UTech) student Demar Stennett will have to wait until January 23, 2020, to return to the St James Circuit Court as his DNA is currently undergoing laboratory...
WESTERN BUREAU: The plan by Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) to roll out its Mandarin programme has received strong backing from Professor Ian Boxill, who argues that the teaching of the Chinese language will increase the skill sets and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the two inmates charged in connection with the 2014 death of Mario Deane, will have to wait until January 7, 2020 before their outstanding psychiatric forensic reports will be ready for submission to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager has reaffirmed that vendors will not be permitted to ply their wares illegally in the Trelawny parish capital’s historic Water Square during the upcoming Christmas season. Gager said the town would come...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has warned residents of St James and the wider Jamaica to be on the lookout for unscrupulous persons trying to steal the Jamaica Public Service Company’s (JPS) newly installed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos of St James, wants the parish’s current state of public emergency (SOE) to remain in place until crime becomes more manageable, arguing that Montego Bay’s level of investment could increase if the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has painted a frightening picture of how Jamaica could be crippled by disasters affecting the coastline because of a significant number of important state institutions and parish capitals...
WESTERN BUREAU: At a time when Jamaica’s men and boys are falling prey to violence, crime, and other unsavoury vices, the Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association (EREA) last week presented scholarships and gifts to 15 male students in western...
WESTERN BUREAU: In the wake of a recent fire in St James that killed two children at home while their mother was reportedly at a party, a senior firefighter has called for tougher laws to punish negligent parents. While addressing a child...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos of St James, is hitting out against parents who allow their daughters to get married before reaching the age of consent, while also warning that such young brides can become victims of human...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid has lashed out at former education ministers, describing their policies as disrespectful and a major trigger for the exodus from the classrooms to greener pastures. While...
