WESTERN BUREAU: Six months after Hurricane Melissa unleashed its fury on western Jamaica, residents of some communities in rural St James have still not got the housing assistance they were promised to rebuild their homes, leaving the properties in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The National Secondary Students’ Council (NSSC) is calling for education stakeholders, including teachers, parents, students, and policymakers, to pay greater attention to the issues faced by neurodivergent students in Jamaica’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five-year-old Mount Alvernia Preparatory and Kindergarten student Kaleo Thomas emerged the toast of Thursday Kiwanis Club of Providence Montego Bay’s 10th annual Kiddie Bee Spelling Competition, copping the much-coveted first-place...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has begun intensifying enforcement measures to compel advertisers to settle outstanding billboard fees, which have gone unpaid despite earlier warnings. The measures, which have been in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police Linroy Edwards, the operations officer for the St James Police Division, says that while the 20 murders recorded in St James this year is one more than the corresponding period last year, the police...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Dialysis Unit at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), in Montego Bay, S James, has received four new dialysis machines, courtesy of the Jamaica Awareness Association of California (JAAC), which is seeking to help in the effort...
WESTERN BUREAU: With some 111 persons killed in motorcycle crashes across the island last year, and many others suffering life-altering injuries, Corporal Ellington Clarke, of the St James Traffic Department, is calling for motorcyclists to obey...
WESTERN BUREAU: Retired educator Dr Cecile Walden was honoured in glowing speeches and songs on Wednesday night at the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) in Montego Bay, where a remembrance service was held in her honour. Scores of past and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, police commander for St James, is appealing to churches and communities to help the police to apprehend thieves who are committing multiple break-ins – even targetting churches. Samuels, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kevin Brown, president of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), says Jamaica needs to prepare to be a leader in technological advancement, arguing that the implementation of robotics and AI is becoming more common in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Vendors at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay are once again crying foul against the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) over the market’s conditions and accusations of unfair treatment by the municipal authorities,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kevin Brown, president of The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), has joined calls for an end to the stigma that currently exists against technical and vocational education and training (TVET) subjects in Jamaica’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following a situation last year, which saw several doctors who were trained in China finding it difficult to get accepted into local hospitals to do their internships, a push is now on to ensure that medical students from St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nickeisha Black, the 34-year-old mother of three children who is battling Stage-3 colorectal cancer, says she is placing her fate in the hands of God and the prospective kindness of others, as she continues to seek help amid...
WESTERN BUREAU: As part of its ongoing efforts to assist residents in the county of Cornwall who were severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa, Restaurant Associates Limited (RAL) has donated 300 emergency portable cots to three...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon wants the Auditor General’s Department to provide an update on the post-Hurricane Melissa arrangement between the Government and the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to restore electricity, citing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor, Richard Vernon, is urging stricter oversight of the city’s business community, arguing that commercial operators should face prosecution for improper waste disposal. The practice, he warns, is costing the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hotelier Adam Stewart, chief executive officer of Sandals Resorts International, has committed $6 million to this year’s staging of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run (JSMCR), which will be held in Montego Bay on Sunday, May 3....
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Cambridge and surrounding communities in St James, many of whom are still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Melissa, recently got some much-needed infrastructural, medical and psychosocial support last Saturday,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Discovery Bay High School in St Ann is hailing its four-year-old Grade Nine Acceleration Programme (GNAP) – which exposes students to the rigours of the Caribbean Secondary Education Council (CSEC) – as a major success story and is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Devon Taylor, president of the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM), is hoping that several concerns relating to the potential environmental impact of the development plans for the Flanker/Providence Beach in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) is in mourning after it lost one of its stalwarts yesterday with the death of Judge Sasha-Marie Ashley, the senior parish judge for Hanover. Ashley passed away after a period of illness. Attorney-...
Western Bureau: A 10,000-foot medical dome, which was slated to be installed on the grounds of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, last month, creating space for approximately 100 additional beds, has still not been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Darien Henry, the principal of the St James-based Montego Bay Community College (MBCC), is renewing calls for greater focus on preparing students for tertiary education, a move he says will strengthen school-leavers’ readiness...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Cambridge and neighbouring communities in St James, which were severely affected by Hurricane Melissa, are set to receive help to rebuild infrastructurally and emotionally, thanks to NorthGate Youth and Family...
