Western Bureau: Students from within the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Region Four - St James, Hanover, and Westmoreland - were last Friday placed on a path to good health when they participated in the annual commemorative day of the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Devon Brown, councillor for the Hopewell division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), wants it to be mandatory for event promoters to apply for and be issued a spirit licence if they intend to serve alcohol at events which...
As the authorities continue to bicker over who is to replace the 100-year-old Woodsville bridge, in Hanover, which recently collapsed, residents of Woodsville, Hillsbrook, and Flower Hill, who have been left without easy access to their communities...
The 2023 Hanover Agricultural Show and Exhibition, the first staging after 2019, will be under the theme, ‘Grow Smart, Eat Smart, Invest in Youth, Invest in Agriculture, Invest in the Future’, on Friday, May 26, at the Bioprist Complex (formerly...
WESTERN BUREAU: A planning committee led by Lucea’s Deputy Mayor Andria Dehaney-Grant has launched an ambitious campaign to raise J$8 million to rehabilitate the courtyard of the Noel Holmes Hospital, the premier health facility in Hanover. In an...
In 1723 northern Westmoreland became the parish of Hanover, now regarded as Jamaica’s smallest parish. A special anniversary committee, established December last year, is preparing to celebrate its 300th anniversary in November with a series of...
WESTERN BUREAU: While fingers are being pointed at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) regarding its inaction to repair the Woodsville bridge before it collapsed last week, the councillors are insisting that the blame should be placed on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The over 100-year-old Woodsville bridge in eastern Hanover has collapsed, a year after the compromised structure was ordered closed by the National Works Agency, sparking fury among residents of several communities who were forced...
WESTERN BUREAU: Persons behind the construction of a church in proximity to the Hopewell High School in Hanover have seemingly defied an order from the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) to construct a border wall to protect students from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has issued a stop order for the erection of a wooden structure in close proximity to the new multimillion-dollar Princess Hotel, now under construction in Green Island, Hanover. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Motorcyclists in Hanover, a region consistently featured in the top three parishes in fatal crashes involving motorcycles, were the recipients of the 11th staging of the National Road Safety Council’s (NRSC) Motorcycle Outreach and...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) will be seeking to end its protracted standoff with persons who are illegally operating nursing homes and rehabilitation centres in the parish. According to deputy mayor of Lucea Andria...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hundreds of female high-school students in the parishes of Hanover and Westmoreland are to benefit from the Kiwanis Club of Negril Point’s 2023 signature project ‘Sit with confidence’, which was designed to cater to the comfort and...
Cacoon Primary and Infant School, in Hanover, which gave a sterling performance while delivering a cultural item at the recent ceremony, staged in Blenheim, Hanover, to mark the 139th birthday of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante could soon...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRUCKING of marl to fill the morass area which forms part of the construction of a new 2,000-room Princess Hotel in Green Island, Hanover, is now the subject of much discontent, as residents say the trucks are destroying the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lucea Deputy Mayor Andria Dehaney-Grant is expressing concern over an increase in the number of of mentally ill people on the streets of Hanover, wondering whether they are just showing up in the parish or if they are being...
The Hanover Health Department (HHD) says that following the inspection of canteens at several schools in the parish over the course of last month, they have concluded that many are operating under conditions deemed as unacceptable. Consequently, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuel is not happy with the time it is taking to survey the property boundaries at the Orchard (Old Steamer) beach in Hopewell, Hanover. The title for the property was recently handed over to the Hanover...
Protracted drought conditions are having a devastating effect on Hanover, where agricultural production is being affected by shortage of water and increased bushfires. Acres of land, which were once lush green, are becoming dry and parched....
WESTERN BUREAU: Collin Virgo, the assistant general secretary of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), is again calling for an end to contract work arrangements in the labour force, saying the practice is unjust. Virgo, who was speaking on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Principal of the Rusea’s High School in Lucea, Donna Anderson, has commended the 1981 alumni for its steady support of the school over the past three years, with its latest being the donation of $400,000 and a hospitality tent to...
Andria Dehaney-Grant, deputy mayor of Lucea and councillor for the Sandy Bay division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), wants a museum exhibiting artefacts depicting the life of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante, who was born in that...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Chambers Pen in Hanover is to benefit from a $89-million road rehabilitation programme. The work on the roads is scheduled to start within two weeks with a completion timeline of nine months. Local Government and...
Western Bureau: Thirty residents of Chambers Pen, in western Hanover, were recently each awarded grants valued at $50,000 by the Social Development Commission (SDC) under the agency’s Local Economic Development Support Programme (LEDSP). The...
WESTERN BUREAU: A contract valued at $89 million has been signed for extensive road rehabilitation for the community of Chambers Pen in western Hanover. The inking comes a little over 18 months after the Ministry of Local Government and Rural...
