Five months after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, the danger hasn’t passed. It’s hanging – literally – over nearly every road, sidewalk, and gate in Westmoreland, especially in the capital. What used to be a routine drive remains a gamble as low...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar is not a town you stroll through for leisure. You move because you must. The capital of Westmoreland, home to an estimated 13,930 people across 3,980 households, has long depended on foot traffic. In this low-lying...
Along Negril’s beachfront and bustling roadside, recovery after Hurricane Melissa is unfolding not in sweeping declarations but in quiet resilience with one plate of food sold, one tourist taxi trip completed, and one customer welcomed back at a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Days before a leptospirosis outbreak was officially declared across several Jamaican parishes, including Westmoreland, public health officials were already warning residents in Whithorn about serious risks linked to using untreated...
WESTERN BUREAU: For residents of Retreat, Red Ground, and Red Road in Westmoreland Western , last week’s torrential downpours brought a familiar misery – flooded roads, stranded motorists, and yet another reminder of the parish’s chronic drainage...
When 65-year-old Noel Lloyd Patterson lost control of his vehicle and plunged into the Rio Cobre at Flat Bridge some time after 10 p.m. on April 13, some of his family members didn’t receive a phone call to notify them of the unfolding tragedy....
For Ieasha McMurray, her experience with motherhood has been far from ordinary. When she first learned that she would be giving birth to twins, she was ecstatic, but joy soon turned to utter shock as she discovered the babies, Azaria and Azora...
