WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Courtney Daye on Monday dismissed another attempt by the prosecution to have a lock-up policy document admitted into evidence. The policy was allegedly in effect in August 2014, when Mario Deane was fatally beaten while in...
Western Bureau: Businessman Ras Astor Black, renowned for his many unsuccessful attempts to win a seat in representational politics, wants the north coast highway, from the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay to Mammee Bay, in St Ann, to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seasoned road racer Kamar Thomas, with a time of 33 minutes 38 seconds, and Tonya Busse, who clocked 45:04, were the toast of yesterday’s ninth staging of the Jill Stewart Montego Bay City Run, copping the male and female 10K...
Western Bureau: While many Jamaicans have been expressing delight that the security forces appear to be turning the tables on gunmen, resulting in more than 80 persons killed in alleged confrontations with lawmen since the start of the year,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thieves broke into the police’s Area One Accident Investigation Reconstruction Unit (AIRU) facility on Orange Street in Montego Bay, St James, on Saturday, stealing several items, including a ballistic vest. The crooks, who were...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two Nicaraguans and a Jamaican man, who were arrested during a joint police-military operation off the coast of Westmoreland on March 31, have been formally charged following the seizure of 1,480 pounds (672.6 kilograms) of ganja....
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang, who is also the member of parliament for Northwest St James, has promised party leader and Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness to deliver the parish’s five parliamentary...
Western Bureau: The firearm popularly known as the ‘Chip Glock’, which is said to be the weapon of choice among Jamaican gangsters based in the United States (US), has now been discovered in the possession of local thugs, with one reportedly seized...
WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth’s Jam-Iconic Experience sign, which was unveiled last Friday by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, has not found favour with some residents of Trelawny, who believe it represents a dark period in the seaside town’s history...
Western Bureau: WELLESLEY BOLT, the father of track and field superstar Usain Bolt, has died. He reportedly died at a medical facility in Kingston yesterday, just hours after he was transported there from his home in Sherwood Content, Trelawny....
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaican Government is standing firm on its pronouncement that Emirates Airline will launch weekly scheduled flights between Dubai and Montego Bay starting April 10, via a code-sharing arrangement. “Starting next month,...
Western Bureau: A cloud of concern yesterday hung over St James High School, in Montego Bay, as staffers on the morning shift turned up to find the school’s gates padlocked and police personnel present on the compound. While it could not be...
Western Bureau: Montego Bay-based entities, the Bioprist Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) and the Heinz Simonitsch School on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create a strategic partnership to enhance educational...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five months after the St James Health Services promised that the problematic issue of raw sewage flowing along a busy thoroughfare at the Porto Bello entrance to Cornwall Court in Montego Bay would be addressed, the situation has...
Western Bureau: Shadwayne Ellis, the taxi operator, who surrendered to the Westmoreland police last Friday, two days after he allegedly inflicted fatal chop wounds on jerk chicken vendor, 54-year-old Rodroy ‘Jerky’ Powell, on Wednesday afternoon,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Classes were suspended at St James High School in Montego Bay, St James, on Tuesday, a day after a longstanding acrimonious relationship between Principal Joseph Williams and Chairman Christopher McCurdy boiled over during a staff...
Western Bureau: While acknowledging that his role as chairman of the island’s resilient corridors during the COVID-19 pandemic was most challenging and demanding, businessman John Byles, the deputy executive chairman of Chukka Caribbean...
WESTERN BUREAU: News that the St James Public Health Services shut down the canteen at Cornwall College in Montego Bay over health concerns was met with praise from a parent who expressed relief that the authorities had finally intervened. “I have...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Richard Currie, leader of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, is calling for indigenous groups, including the Maroons, Rastafarians, and Tainos, to have a seat at the table in Jamaica’s ongoing discussions to sever ties...
WESTERN BUREAU: Long-serving Hanover custos and beloved medical doctor, Dr David Stair, has passed away. He was discovered slumped over in the bathroom of his Pond Piece home in Hopewell, Hanover, late yesterday afternoon by concerned co-workers...
WESTERN BUREAU: Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary General of United Nations Tourism, is set to visit Jamaica for the highly anticipated Global Tourism Resilience Conference and Expo, scheduled to take place at the Princess Grand Jamaica Resort in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sadness swept through the Riu Palace Aquarelle Hotel in Trelawny on Monday when a three-year-old child, enjoying a swim with her mother at the hotel pool, reportedly got into difficulty and became unresponsive. The child, identified...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the St James commander Superintendent Eron Samuels is confident that the police are prepared to handle criminal deportees from the United States who might return to continue their activities, many residents, particularly in...
Western Bureau: Having recently completed a four-month renovation exercise, which has given the 21-year-old Riu Negril Hotel in Hanover a brand-new look, the property, which is led by its general manager, Luis Suarez, is now ready to capitalise on...
Western Bureau: The Montego Bay-based International Postgraduate Medical College (IPMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) to have students from Africa complete their postgraduate...
