Western Focus

Outreach and education officer at the Montego Bay Marine Park, Joshua Bailey, is urging beach users across the island to keep the shores garbage-free in order to preserve Jamaica's image as a prime tourist destination.

WESTERN BUREAU:Itinerant vendors who sell fruits and craft items on the Negril beach strip say they are tired of playing a cat-and-mouse game with law-enforcement officers, and want to be legally registered to walk and sell on the seashore.

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WESTERN BUREAU:Social scientist Donavan Reynolds, a postgraduate student completing an LLM in international human-rights law at Birkbeck, University of London, has applied to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), seeking to be the party's candidate in the Western Westmoreland constituency.

WESTERN BUREAU:The Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday issued a subpoena for the arresting officer in the case against an accused hotel-room burglar, after the officer failed to provide a statement for the prosecution's case file.

WESTERN BUREAU:Twenty-year-old Shelly Dean-Bartley of Sheffield in Westmoreland, was crowned karaoke champion at the finale of the Sea Star Inn inaugural 13-week competition, held Monday night at the West End resort.

WESTERN BUREAU:The case against three St James men who are charged in connection with the theft of a woman's BlackBerry cell phone has been deferred to September 18 in order to assign a lawyer to one of the defendants.

WESTERN BUREAU:Faced with constant water lock-offs lasting several days at a time, residents of Coral Gardens in St James say they are in utter distress and are blaming the National Water Commission (NWC) for neglect.

While contestants belted out lyrics in a bid to take the crown at the Sea Star Inn Karaoke Competition, the ladies turned up the heat in the coolness of the night last Monday.

WESTERN BUREAU:DVine Living Essentials is riding a wave of interest that has led to a surge in the establishment of health and wellness facilities across Jamaica.

Top-performing students from the East Central St James constituency were presented with educational scholarships by Member of Parliament Edmund Bartlett recently.

Sergeant Tai Cameron of the Hanover Fire Department's Emergency Medical Services checks the blood pressure of a community member during the National Centre for Youth Development's empowerment and wellness fair in the Upper Rock Spring community last week