WESTERN BUREAU: Alleged quack doctor Alicia England was denied bail yesterday when she made her second appearance in the St James Parish Court to answer to fraud charges as her true identity has not yet been verified despite a previous court order...
WESTERN BUREAU: Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, says the recent murders of teachers Clevon Campbell and Samuel Martin have robbed the educational system of two educators at a time when there is...
WESTERN BUREAU: With ongoing dry conditions and water shortages plaguing some parts of the island, Pearnel Charles Jr, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, has said that the Government is doing all it can...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of St James are being urged by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to take advantage of its mortgage discounts so that it can hand over to landowners the approximately 8,000 property titles it has in its possession. In...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has strongly condemned the vicious murders of students Shantae Skyers and Tricia Morris and lecturer Samuel Martin, which took place within a three-week period, and is calling on Jamaicans to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) has come out swinging against criticism levelled against the corporation by Lennox Wallace, the chief public health inspector for St James, who is unhappy about health issues at the People’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The long-awaited committal hearing for Montego Bay-based nurse Dana Minto, who is charged with causing death by dangerous driving following an accident in 2017, which claimed two lives, was put off yet again on Wednesday. Minto was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry-Ann Cunningham, the St James teacher who is charged in connection with the death of Anchovy Primary School student Easton Stapleton, who was killed in a vehicular accident at the school last June, will stand trial for common-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican goat farmers are bleating for greater protection from farm thieves who have pillaged their herds and robbed them of revenue, a senior Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) branch president has said. Speaking at the 2019...
WESTERN BUREAU: Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, is urging teachers to pay keen attention to how they treat boys in the classroom and to create an environment where they will not shy away from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos rotulorum for St James, is calling for immediate action to be taken to stop the growing murder tally in the parish, which he says is renewing fear among residents. Pitkin was speaking at the 38th...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, J.C. Hutchinson, has announced that in the next two years, the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will become a non-government agency and will have to finance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry-Ann Cunningham, the St James teacher charged in connection with the death of Anchovy Primary School student Easton Stapleton, had her committal hearing deferred yet again when she appeared in the St James Parish Court on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the chief public health inspector for St James, is supporting a suggestion from Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis for the St James Health Department to train representatives from the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) decision to publish the names of persons owing some J$70 million in back rent for occupancy of the controversial Bogue Industrial Estate lands in Montego Bay is bearing fruit as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gregory Roberts and Mario Morrison, the two men charged with the 2017 murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl student Shineka Gray, will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on June 3. The men were given the new trial date and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the chief public health inspector for St James, says that the St James Health Department needs more vector-control workers to help in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is making a fresh appeal to business operators in the western city and the rest of St James to practise proper waste disposal in order to eliminate the parish’s perpetual problems with rat infestation....
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has ordered that the true identity of suspected quack doctor Alicia England be verified before her next court appearance on May 14. England, who allegedly posed as a medical doctor under the names ‘England...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry-Ann Cunningham, the St James teacher charged in connection with the death of Anchovy Primary School student, Easton Stapleton, will learn on April 17 whether she will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court. It was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Santana Morris, Jamaica’s youth ambassador to the United Nations, has commended the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) for putting in place plans to introduce Mandarin in its curriculum this September. Dr Marie Nelson, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dana Minto, the nurse charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a 2017 accident which claimed two lives, is scheduled to undergo her long-awaited committal hearing on May 2, after the hearing was postponed for a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) in St James will be offering the Chinese language Mandarin, as a course when the next academic year begins. MBCC’s principal, Dr Marie Nelson, confirmed the September start following yesterday’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority, said construction of the long-awaited Western Children’s Hospital, which will be located in Montego Bay, is scheduled to begin in June and is expected to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has hit back at critics who continue to voice disapproval of the price tag for the ‘Welcome to Montego Bay’ sign near the Sangster International Airport in the western city. The sign, which was built...
