WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF the Logwood community in western Hanover are looking to reclaim its distinction as a model district.The area, once known as one of the most peaceful communities in the parish is now largely regarded as the Hanover...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Municipal Corporation (HMC) is now in possession of the land title for the Orchard Beach property in Hopewell, Hanover, and has started the process to get the property surveyed, with a view to knowing the boundaries of...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LACK of adequate lighting on the heavily traversed roadway between Orange Bay and Negril in Hanover has become a topic of discussion with councillor for the Green Island Division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC),...
WESTERN BUREAU: “BLENHEIM DESERVES better than what is happening there now with regard to water. It deserves much better than that,” Sheridan Samuels, mayor of Lucea and chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), argued while showing his...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO AILING Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) officers attached to the Green Island Police Station in the Hanover Division are more confident today that they will be able to access much-needed medical care, as they were presented...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Parish Manager for RADA Aston King Jr is hoping for a reversal of a trend of part-time farming in the agricultural sector which resulted in a dip in production levels and output of major crops across Hanover last year. He...
WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH representatives of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) held a community consultation meeting with the Hopewell community in Hanover, where the design of a multimillion-dollar development plan for the Old Steamer Beach in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Persistent traffic congestion in the Hanover towns of Hopewell and Lucea should soon be a thing of the past. This as both head of the parish’s division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Sharon Beeput, and chairman of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A shortage of staff is preventing the Jamaica Fire Brigade’s (JFB) Hanover Division in Lucea from operating a seven-day, 24-hour emergency medical service (EMS). A report tabled in the Hanover Municipal Corporation’s (HMC) January...
WESTERN BUREAU: SUPERINTENDENT IN charge of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Hanover Division, Sharon Beeput, is recommending that rumble strips be placed along four roadways in Hanover, as those thoroughfares have become hotspots for...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA)/Western Parks and Markets (WPM) is being lambasted by councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), and residents of the parish, for its lack of action towards removing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hopewell and surrounding communities in Hanover are now pleased that work has started to establish a police station in the seaside Hanover town. After years of lobbying by Superintendent Sharon Beeput, who heads the...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEDICAL OFFICER for Hanover Dr Kaushal Singh is calling on Jamaicans to continue to follow the established health protocols to keep up the fight against the latest subvariants of the COVID-19 virus, which have been causing concerns...
WESTERN BUREAU: ACTION BY the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Hanover Division has saved properties valued at approximately $4 billion. This has resulted from its response to 157 fire emergency calls during 2022. Over the period, 18 houses were also...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE AREA in the Sir Alexander Bustamante Square in Lucea, Hanover, where the natural municipal Christmas tree is always lit has been officially named the James Anthony Lawrence Park. Lawrence, a son of Richmond in the parish, served...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE Christmas holiday weekend draws nearer, vending plans of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and other festivities slated to take place in the parish are now being unveiled. Mayor of Lucea and Chairman of the HMC,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has noted that more young women are stepping up to fill the void being left by older farmers even while their young male counterparts continue to express little interest in the sector. Charles...
WESTERN BUREAU: TEN OF the 106 new Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) graduates from intake No. 24 have been placed in Hanover. However, as much as they are appreciated, their arrival has created additional problems for supervisors in that parish. With...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Health Department (HHD) has its hands full in trying to contain the number of unlicensed nursing homes and rehabilitation centres in the parish, as notices served by the health department on existing ones are being...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Western Parks and Markets (WPM) now promising to clear up the backlog of garbage existing in the parish of Hanover, the Hanover Health Department (HHD) has simultaneously...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hopewell, Hanover, have been left fuming after mounds of tree trimmings and uncollected garbage were left at the Old Steamer Beach after a clean-up exercise, with unanswered questions about exactly who was behind the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Aldwayne Beckford, Ministry of Health parish manager at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Hanover says the situation of a pile-up of unwashed linen at the facility has been addressed, and arrangements are now in place to prevent...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Old Steamer Beach in Hopewell, Hanover, is to be developed this time by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), some twenty years after similar plans were put forward by the Ministry of Local Government in 2002. Dr Carey Wallace,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Courtney Daye has expressed concern about the number of murder cases down for trial in the Michaelmas sitting of the Hanover Circuit Court, noting that the history of that parish was a very peaceful one. In addressing an...
WESTERN BUREAU: MUNICIPAL POLICE personnel attached to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have hit back at criticisms by Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels of “doing nothing”, arguing that they “have been given basket to carry water”. Samuels, who...
