WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr, has described farming as one of the pathways that persons can take towards earning and achieving prosperity at a very young age. Charles said, for the Ministry of...
WESTERN BUREAU: CONCERNS ARE high within the capital town of Lucea, Hanover, about what appears to be an increase in the number of mentally ill persons now roaming the streets of that town. Councillor Daren Barnes and Deputy Mayor of Lucea Andria...
WESTERN BUREAU: HANOVER’S CHIEF Medical Officer Dr Kaushal Singh has expressed the view that while the COVID-19 infections within the parish are trending down, he is disappointed that persons across the parish are not taking the vaccines. “The...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE voices get louder nationally against the noise pollution being created by motorcyclists, and the number of them involved in criminal activities, the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), Hanover Division, has joined the cry for more...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PROBLEM of a lack of communication between the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and administrators at the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), coupled with the inactivity of the light and power company within the parish, has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Based on the availability of healthcare facilities and health practices by individuals across the country, the life expectancy of Jamaicans has increased over time, with persons living to the age of 70 years and over a common...
WESTERN BUREAU: There were broad smiles and joyful reunions among students and teachers as full-scale engagement of in-person classes resumed islandwide on Monday, with only shift-system schools being allowed another two weeks for complete...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Parish Development Committee (PDC) has embarked on an environmental project to plant trees on school grounds across the parish, aimed at providing both food and shade, while also enhancing the natural environment within...
WESTERN BUREAU: CUSTOS OF Hanover Dr David Stair has described the present Jamaican society as lacking in quality leaders, unlike those of Jamaica’s past who were willing to make personal sacrifices for the benefit of the masses. “I have thought...
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant General Secretary of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) Collin Virgo has lashed out against the now common practice of hiring persons in various industries as contract labourers, arguing that the Government and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THOUSAND OF persons who use the roadway that links the parishes of Hanover and Westmoreland, specifically between the Hanover district of Chester Castle and the Westmoreland township of Bethel Town, will be in for a more comfortable...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK has started in the Hanover capital, Lucea, as the Ministry of Local Government’s ‘Paint the City, Paint the Town’ programme has started in that rural town. With conditions in that town leading to Minister of...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF State in the Office of the Prime Minister (west), Homer Davis, outlined the purpose for which he has been assigned in western Jamaica by Prime Minister Andrew Holness during the recent Cabinet reshuffle. Addressing a...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Jericho in eastern Hanover are peeved at the length of time it is taking to repair roads in their community which have been dug up to lay pipelines under a water-distribution project. It has been several months since...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have labelled the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and the Western Parks and Markets (WPM) as failing in their job and leaving the parish of Hanover wanting...
WESTERN BUREAU: A MEMBER of staff of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) was attacked and wounded while on the job in the Lucea Transportation Centre on Thursday. In a report from superintendent of police in charge of Hanover, Sharon Beeput,...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER WITHOUT Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Clifford Everald Warmington, has blamed poor maintenance for the bad condition of many of the roadways in the constituency of Eastern Hanover, arguing...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MANAGEMENT and staff of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Hanover office are highly anticipating their new office complex, which is being constructed in the Haughton Court area of Lucea, in the parish, and is...
Western Bureau: One of Western Jamaica’s top football players-turned-coach, Anthony ‘Follies’ Williams is dead. Follies, as he was affectionately called, a product and resident of the eastern Hanover town of Hopewell, passed peacefully on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE murder rate in the country reeling at more than three persons per day since the beginning of the year, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Aubyn Hill has expressed the view that criminal activity will not stop...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica, and Montego Bay in particular, will be the focal point for discussions surrounding the future of supply chains and free zones, legal issues concerning developments in global and regional trade, plus new technologies and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Newly minted Minister of Industry, Investment, and Commerce Aubyn Hill has identified the special economic zones (SEZ) as a key sector that can provide a well-needed boost to the Jamaican economy. Addressing the press launch of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD OF the European Union (EU) delegation to Jamaica and Belize, Ambassador Marianne Van Steen, says that despite many improvements in policies, practices and service delivery within the Jamaican justice sector, assisted by the EU...
WESTERN BUREAU: STAKEHOLDER groups have begun planning to alleviate traffic congestion in two of the major towns within the parish of Hanover – Hopewell and the capital Lucea. Both are noted for the long traffic delays and representatives from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR, multi-agency educational project is slated to take place in the Chambers Pen community in western Hanover. Under the project that is slated to begin in another four to six weeks, the Chambers Pen Primary and...
