Western Focus

What do you see as your greatest responsibility as a parent?Latoya Wilson, health workerMy daughters' safety and well-being ... nurturing their minds. My older daughter is young, but is growing up, so a part of my responsibility is to even educate...

Kimiko Jones of Paradise, Norwood, St James, is urgently in need of assistance to pay for her first dialysis treatment for renal failure.Jones, who came to The Gleaner with swollen feet, and a puffed stomach, and looking tired, assisted by a friend...

Western Bureau:History will be created at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre in Montego Bay this Thursday night as for the first time in the annals of the 23-year-old music festival, a female artiste, the sensational Lady Saw, will be the...

Do you consider the annual staging of Reggae Sumfest an integral part of your summer experience, if so, why, and if not, why not?

Outgoing Cornwall College head boy Patrick Pinnock (right) hands over the gavel to Head Boy Designate Tahir Thompson during the installation ceremony for head boy and deputy head boys designate at the school’s recent valedictory service in Montego Bay. 

WESTERN BUREAU:The National Housing Trust (NHT) is being accused by stakeholders in Hanover of being negligent after not constructing a single housing scheme in the parish for over three decades. The lands the trust have acquired have turned out to...

Despite buying four multimillion-dollar properties for housing development in the parish, the National Housing Trust (NHT) has not constructed a housing scheme in Hanover for more than 30 years. As a resident of Hanover, how do you believe this has...

Fifty-eight employees of the St James Parish Council were given various awards at the council's inaugural Staff Awards, which was staged at the Seawind Beach Club, Montego Bay, last week.The awards, the brainchild of the council's Public and...

Neil Curtis, founder and president of Farm Up Jamaica, says wide-scale organic agriculture is the key to lifting Jamaica out of its current economic rut and creating a path to prosperity."There is a shortage of organic foods worldwide, whether it is...

Thanks to the generosity of the University of Technology (UTech) Western Campus Seminar Group, women in western Jamaica, who might be at risk for breast cancer will soon be able to access mammography services at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH)...

According to Wikipedia, pop culture's encyclopedia, "The infrastructure of the city is going through a series of explosive modernisations, which once completed, aims to keep Montego Bay as a top destination in the Caribbean and the world." This...