WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Maurice McCurdy, the lawyer for Michael ‘Dry Goods’ Williams, who is facing a murder charge arising from the August 11 shooting death of Wesley Robinson in Ramble, St James, is accusing the police of not making the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Joseph ‘Gio’ McKenzie, the St James man who was recently arrested and charged for two murders committed a year apart – in April 2023 and April 2024 – was remanded in custody when he appeared in the St James Parish Court yesterday....
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is supporting a call for the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to dispose of items which vendors left overnight in the western city without properly packing them away. “The thing is,...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of the 16 members of the controversial Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group, who are charged with breaching the Child Care and Protection Act and the Education Act, has been rescheduled to November 15 because of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is calling for the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) to carry out research on why Jamaica’s roads are deteriorating at such a rapid pace and whether utilising alternative construction methods would...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a recent incident in which a policeman was seriously injured in a hit-and run incident, Superintendent Eron Samuels, the police commander for St James, says law enforcement remains resolute in their bid to rein in violence-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tennessee-based breast cancer specialist, Dr Sonya Reid, says diet and lifestyle choices play a key role in breast cancer care, albeit 90 per cent of breast cancer cases do not have a clear cause for their development. Speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says that, despite the concerns about the easy access to e-cigarettes and the absence of legislation to address tobacco use, Jamaica is still not yet in a position to institute a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Tara Tyme, the pastor of St Paul’s United Church in Montego Bay, St James, is urging Jamaica’s judges and other legal representatives to apply justice in practical ways instead of only fulfilling the letter of the law. Tyme...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) President Michael Hemmings is making a fresh call for a forensic laboratory to be set up in western Jamaica to process ballistics reports and other forensic matters at a faster pace than currently...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has thrown his voice into the debate around the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) recent suggestion of merging Jamaica’s Emancipation and Independence celebrations into one extended holiday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Janine Morris, consultant psychiatrist at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, believes that a fear of reduced sexual appeal is preventing some women from getting early screening for breast cancer. Addressing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Consultant surgeon Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is alarmed at the rise in the number of breast cancer diagnoses since 2021, amid an increase in the number of young women...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James woman facing a murder charge in relation to the death of her infant daughter is to have a hearing to determine if she is fit to stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on November 5. Shamoya Green, who is accused of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The much-anticipated committal hearing for Shamoya Green, the St James woman facing a murder charge for allegedly throwing her baby daughter off a rooftop to her death last December, will proceed on September 30 without an assessor...
WESTERN BUREAU: Denese Adams, the vendor who was caught in a viral video urinating into a container and then pouring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, made her first appearance in the St James Parish Court...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man charged with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is booked to return to the St James Circuit Court on October 18 when two outstanding documents will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is not resisting calls for its members to wear body-worn cameras for the sake of accountability but is insisting that the implementation must be done in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Donovan Campbell, the director of The University of the West Indies’ [UWI] Western Jamaica Campus, believes that the Jamaican society’s expectations of boys and young men must change in order to help them see education as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), in St James, says it will be staging several activities in the lead-up to its 50th anniversary celebration on September 29, 2025. The college’s anniversary celebration, which is being held under...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jill Stewart MoBay City Run charity organisation, formerly the ‘MoBay City Run,’ yesterday, handed out $8 million in scholarship funds to students from several schools in western Jamaica, the first major scholarship donation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Keron Watson, the man who allegedly used social media to lure a woman into committing sexual acts for money in 2017, was again denied bail when he appeared in the St James Circuit Court on Tuesday, despite pleas from his lawyer....
WESTERN BUREAU: Ricardo Bennett, the principal of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), St James, wants the Government to provide financial assistance to tertiary-level students who want to become teachers. Speaking to journalists following...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight years after Janice Hines was shot and injured when police officers fired on a taxi she was in during a high-speed chase in St James, her lawyer is accusing the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) of ignoring their attempts to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police Linroy Edwards, operations officer for the St James Police Division, has reported that a firearm that was taken from Joseph McKenzie, one of St James’ most wanted men who was captured last month, has...
