WESTERN BUREAU Parish officials and public passenger vehicle operators have welcomed proposed plans by the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) to construct a transportation centre for the town of Green Island, in the western end of the parish. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: “It’s like a death trap, or walking in a minefield,” one operator of a business along Main Street, Lucea, told The Gleaner about the walk along that thoroughfare in the Hanover capital. What was supposed to be a multifaceted,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PEOPLE’S People’s National Party’s (PNP) political machinery in the Eastern Hanover constituency now has two new faces at its leadership level. They are in Lennox ‘Zico’ Fray, the divisional chairman for the Hopewell Division,...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT IS not an everyday achievement for parents and children to receive the same recognition for excellence and the level of social and community work that they have done over their lifetime. However, Andria Dehaney-Grant, principal...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTRY OF Education building officers and administrators at the Hopewell High School in Hanover are expressing deep concern about the structural integrity and safety of a block of classrooms at that institution. Classrooms sit...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Justices of the Peace Association (HJPA) has elected Kaneisha Pyne-Palmer as the new president for its 2023-2024 administrative year. Pyne-Palmer, a business process outsourcing (BPO) executive, replaces immediate past...
WESTERN BUREAU Retired educator, former dean of discipline and now community social worker, Christine Hooper-Johnson, is the new president of the Hanover Parish Development Committee (PDC) for the next two years. This follows the staging of the bi-...
WESTERN BUREAU Residents of Seaview in Hopewell in Eastern Hanover have taken the aesthetics and sanitation of their community into their own hands, and have constructed a garbage disposal container at the entrance to the community. The unit,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE WERE sombre faces all round, depicting the mood of the many parents, students, teachers, Green Island High School administrators, and Hanoverians in general who turned out to participate in a candlelight vigil in honour of the...
The Hanover Parish Development Committee will be under new leadership come Wednesday, June 28, the date set for its overdue biannual general meeting.Incumbent president of the body, Petra Foster, although eligible for another two-year term in...
WESTERN BUREAU: An audience of more than 200 waited patiently Saturday night, despite a one hour and 10 minutes power outage, to witness the crowning of 19-year-old recording artiste Tricia Cunningham as the 2023 Miss Hanover Festival Queen. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: COPIES OF master maps of the Hanover capital, Lucea, and also of the fast-growing town of Green Island, have been presented to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and the Hanover Police Division with a view to assist them in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WORK ON Hopewell Police Station in Hanover, which started in January 2023, is now about 70 per cent complete and scheduled for completion in another few months, this according to Commissioner of Police, Antony Anderson. The...
Western Bureau: People wondered if it was going to be a repeat of what transpired in the building shared by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) and the Trelawny Parish Court in March 22, when pieces of plaster began falling out of the roof of...
Western Bureau: The fears of the chairman of the board of governors, and administrators of the Hopewell High School, in Hanover, Dalton Hastings, are being realised, which are the potential collapse of a block of classrooms at that institution,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER police and administrators at Bethel Primary School in Hopewell, Hanover have been left puzzled as to how thieves have managed to remove a safe weighing over 600 pounds from the bursar’s office, without anyone hearing or...
WESTERN BUREAU: It was a classic case of ‘more sellers than buyers’ at Friday’s much-hyped staging of the 2023 Hanover Agricultural Show, on the grounds of the Bioprist Complex (formerly Jockey Factory) in Lucea, Hanover, as while there over 40...
WESTERN BUREAU: Outside of major projects by the HEART/NSTA Trust, Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPSCo), and Guardian Life Insurance Company, Labour Day 2023 was a low-keyed affair in the parish of Hanover as only a very small number of...
Western Bureau With increasing concerns about the high levels of criminal activities in Hanover, Easton Edwards, the councillor for the Lucea division in the parish’s municipal corporation, is embarking on an initiative which will see the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hopewell Transport Centre, in Hanover, which has been underutilised for several years, could soon see significant upgrade work to the existing structure to allow for the venue to be recognised as a start and termination point...
Western Bureau: With five murders and numerous reported cases of shooting, Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the police commander for Hanover, says the police in the parish will be stepping up their efforts to put an end to the rampant lawlessness...
Western Bureau: With space running out at the Hopewell cemetery, in Hanover, and fears mounting that the residents could soon find themselves without a place to bury their dead, the parish’s municipal corporation has indicated that lands have been...
Western Bureau: The contractors working on the new Princess Hotel in Green Island, Hanover, have written to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), promising to underwrite the cost of repairing the roads that residents...
WESTERN BUREAU: The planned development of the Orchard Beach property in Hopewell, Hanover has hit a snag as the pegs which were used as boundary markers by local land surveyor, Preston D Demetrius and Associates, were removed by unknown people. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five-year-old Zola Wynnzor of Mt Alvernia Preparatory and Kindergarten School in Montego Bay is the 2023 Kiwanis Club of Providence Montego Bay Kiddie Bee spelling champion. She won the contest by correctly spelling the word ‘butter...
