ALL BUILDING plans above 9,000 square metres must be sent to the Corporate Area for approval by the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), but Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), wants an end to that practice, saying it is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has assured stakeholders in Westmoreland that action will be taken to devise a plan towards building a central sewerage system in the parish capital of Savanna-la-Mar, in an effort to advance the development of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the Westmoreland Police Division wants the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) social intervention committee to prioritise the issue of job placements for youth in the troubled Russia community who have already received...
WESTERN BUREAU: EDMUND BARTLETT, member of parliament for St James East Central, has promised to help residents of Barrett Town who are living on captured Crown lands to transform their homes and commercial operations into wealth. Bartlett said the...
WESTERN BUREAU: COUNCILLOR for the Little London division in Westmoreland, Ian Myles, has said builders and potential homeowners are being forced to pay excessive fees upwards of $700,000 to have their properties inspected and passed by private and...
WESTERN BUREAU: HOPETON MATERNITY Health Centre, located in the hills of eastern St James, will be restored and reopened before August 6, when the country celebrates its 60th anniversary of Independence, says Lennox Wallace, manager at the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents are increasingly offering information that has bolstered the investigative and intelligence-gathering capacity of the security forces, putting criminals on the back foot, says Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROUGHLY EIGHT months since a zone of special operations (ZOSO) was declared in their community, residents of Norwood in St James have benefited from an investment of $7.8 million under the micro-enterprise programme. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: BERTEL MOORE, the political directorate at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), says he will not be intimidated by the comments made by Desmond McKenzie, minister of local government and rural development, about his...
WESTERN BUREAU: BERTEL MOORE, mayor of Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland, says the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in the parish capital is not enough, as people are still being killed. Since the start of this year, there have been three double...
WESTERN BUREAU: HAVING SECTOR committees as part of the country’s procurement process makes no sense, argued Clifford Everald Warmington, minister without portfolio with responsibility for works, in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job...
WESTERN BUREAU: FARMERS IN eastern Westmoreland have expressed delight with the commencement of the rehabilitation of the Marchmont to Retrieve main road. According to John Brown, a farmer from the area, the last 25 years he has been bearing the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ANDREW Holness-led Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation has said inadequate representation at the parliamentary level in more than 30 years has led to the derelict state of many roads in Westmoreland. “I’ve found some...
WESTERN BUREAU “ALMOST FIVE years later, the numbers are not perfect, but we are moving in the right direction,” says Omar Sweeney, deputy chairman of the Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) Social Intervention Committee of the Denham Town ZOSO in...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE POLICE have arrested a 27-year-old woman for breaching the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act, following the discovery of banking information and lead sheets at her home in Cambridge, St James, last...
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER living in less-than-ideal conditions for decades as neglect, poverty and gang feuds held their community in a chokehod, some residents in sections of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, are set to benefit from the Government’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Chamber of Commerce (JCC) says Government should end the age-old practice of setting the rates for minimum wage and instead allow wages to be determined by the demand for labour under the free-market system. The free...
WESTERN BUREAU: ERIC CLARKE, chairman of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is reporting that preparations are in high gear for the completion and official opening of the delayed COVID-19 field hospital in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland....
WESTERN BUREAU: Impaired by decades of internal gang feuds, Heroy Clarke, the St James central member of parliament, has said he will not rest until the community of Salt Spring is transformed into a safe passage that is free from criminal elements...
WESTERN BUREAU: POLICE OFFICERS deserve a better salary package and they will be getting more, says Dr Horace Chang, deputy prime minister and minister of national security. “While not getting into too big a debate, the police deserve more pay and...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that allegations of abuse by soldiers within the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, will be probed by the army. Residents in the troubled...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has refused to comment on the damning report from the Integrity Commission on the corruption scandal surrounding the installation of a 220-volt charging port at...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has rebuffed calls for his resignation amid an escalating homicide rate and pledged that Jamaicans will soon see the gains of an assault on violent crime. The country ended last year with...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has frozen all vacation leave over the next two months because of skeletal staff treating swelling numbers of COVID-19 patients at the four major hospitals in the region. Approximately 15...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), has said that he will not be forced to disrupt the livelihood of small business operators in order to build a fruit and vegetable market in Negril. Speaking at...
