Western Focus

WESTERN BUREAU:Although the Ministry of Tourism has given the green light for personal water jet ski operations to be resumed, operators in Negril, unlike their Ocho Rios counterparts, say they are nowhere near ready to accept the new set of rules.

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WESTERN BUREAU:Abigail Arthurs and Mewra Brown advanced to the final 10 of the Sea Star Inn's 13-week-long karaoke contest, which got under way at the resort on Monday night.

WESTERN BUREAU:Two Jamaicans, three Belizeans, and a Grenadian made up the six recipients of microentrepreneurship awards at the third annual Citi Foundation/CMFA Microfinance Awards held during the Fifth Caribbean Microfinance Forum, which was held at the Iberostar resort in Montego Bay last week.

WESTERN BUREAU:The case against a Venezuelan man, who reportedly swallowed approximately US$103,000 (J$11,446,924.57) to avoid declaring the money to customs earlier this year, has been deferred to June 23 to allow his attorney time to take further...

Marketing and extension officer of the All Island Banana Growers Association, Carolyn Anglin, shows off several fingers of bananas to JUTA driver Oscar Campbel during the Agro-tourism Farmers' Market at the Catherine Hall mini-stadium in Montego Bay last Friday.

Former principal of the Farm Primary and Junior High School in Montego Bay, Ida Rhoden, was last Thursday honoured for giving 39 years of service to education at an appreciation ceremony held at the Calvary Baptist Church.

A St James woman who reportedly stole a cellular phone from a male complainant walked out of the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court a free woman on Monday, after the complainant asked for the case to be dismissed.

Tiny tots from the Glendevon Seventh-day Adventist Preschool and Kindergarten had a fun-filled time learning about different occupations during a career-day exercise held at the school last Thursday.

President of the Mount Peace/Clifton Farmers' Association, Collin Johnson, has expressed what he says is grave concern about the indiscriminate felling of trees, within sections of the hills overlooking the community of Kew in Lucea, Hanover.

Key industry players, including executives of financial intermediates, and urban and rural young entrepreneurs are set to meet at the Iberostar Rose Hall Hotel in Montego Bay for the Caribbean Microfinance Forum V (CMF V) this week.