WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that his ministry will soon receive a design draft for the construction of a performing arts centre to be built in Montego Bay, to revive the western city’s theatre culture and enhance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Corporal Elaine Stewart and district constables Juliana Clevon and Marlon Grant, the three cops facing multiple charges in relation to the 2014 death of Mario Deane, will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on March 10 next...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an apparent rejoinder to Chief Justice Bryan Sykes’ commitment to fast-track trials in the Supreme Court, a high court judge has turned the spotlight on routine challenges, such as empanelling juries, as major stumbling blocks to...
WESTERN BUREAU: A lawyer for Gregory Roberts, one of the two men charged with the 2017 murder of St James schoolgirl Shineka Gray, will no longer be appearing as his attorney. Attorney-at-law Shelly-Ann Hyman, who has been representing Roberts,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two years after a devastating fire destroyed the Clifton Boys’ Home in Darliston, Westmoreland, ground was broken yesterday for the rebuilding of the home at the same site. Construction is set to begin within the next two weeks...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis says that the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be publishing notices for occupants of the controversial Bogue Industrial Estate property in Montego Bay to pay J$75 million in outstanding rent...
Jamaica’s first solar power facility, the Westmoreland-based Paradise Park Solar Farm, is poised to become operational by this summer, and the projection is that it will supply 80 gigawatt hours(GWH) of power on an annual basis. David Delaire,...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny Circuit Court has ordered that a video-footage expert be brought in to examine the injuries sustained by Kamoza Clarke, who died in 2014 as a result of a beating he sustained while in the custody of the Trelawny police...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winston Lawson, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), wants a swift update on plans to install some 300 new security cameras in St James under the JamaicaEye initiative. The call comes against...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Belgian national who was arrested for cocaine possession at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Sunday, March 3, was given a suspended sentence in the St James Parish Court yesterday. Jan Gerebern Kempen, a 55-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rahjif Morgan, the man charged with the January 5 murder of University of Technology (UTech) student Demar Stennett in Montego Bay, had his bail extended to March 27 when he appeared in the St James Parish Court yesterday. The 27-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The highly anticipated committal hearing for Dana Minto, the St James nurse who is facing a charge of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the deaths of two persons, was rescheduled yesterday when she appeared before...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two gender-studies experts aligned to The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Western Jamaica Campus (WJC), are of the view that raising Jamaican boys to conform to a masculine culture that emphasises power and ignores...
WESTERN BUREAU: Melissa Harriot, the woman who allegedly stole a three-week-old baby at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay last month, had her bail reduced to $200,000 when she appeared before the St James Parish Court yesterday. The 26-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Novelette Grant, who ended her career in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) as a deputy commissioner of police, is calling for more emphasis to be placed on addressing the educational needs within the justice system in regard to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s leaders have been urged to rescue the disenfranchised, particularly the poor and homeless, for the public good. The call was made by the Reverend Karen Kirlew, president of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU), during her...
WESTERN BUREAU:Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that the total number of reported dengue cases in Jamaica last year stood at 996, over 100 more than had previously been reported, and that 79 cases have been recorded to date since...
WESTERN BUREAU:Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced thatSt James will soon receive 50 vector-control workers to complement the 12 who are currently working in the parish as efforts continue to control the dengue fever outbreak...
WESTERN BUREAU:The case against Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the inmates charged with the 2014 murder of Mario Deane, has been set for mention on May 2, at which time the doctors who wrote their psychiatric reports will answer questions from the...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is ramping up its public education and sensitisation campaign to fortify western Jamaica against the spread of dengue fever, which the Ministry of Health says has reached epidemic levels...
WESTERN BUREAU:Local government Minister Desmond McKenzie has pledged that his administration will provide some much-needed equipment to the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) over the course of the upcoming financial year. This will include two fire-boats...
WESTERN BUREAU:Errol Greene, president of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ), is urging citizens to immediately report any justices of the peace (JP) who breach the regulations of their appointed offices by charging for their services...
WESTERN BUREAU:Zachaeus Smith, vice-president of the New York-based Northeast Alumni and Friends of Godfrey Stewart High School (NAF), wants to see the removal of political influence from the education sector. He is calling for the creation of an...
Social activist O. Dave Allen, who is representing business operators at the People's Arcade in Montego Bay, St James, is planning to take legal action to keep the commercial facility open after it was closed by health authorities recently due to a...
WESTERN BUREAU:Senior Superintendent of Police Anthony Castelle collapsed in the St James Parish Court yesterday after he was found guilty for a 2016 shooting of a pregnant woman. She was shot in her back as she sat in a taxi that was fired on by...
