WESTERN BUREAU: Collel Blake, the parish manager for the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) St James parish office, believes that Jamaican young people should be given more avenues to access information on their culture, including...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students from several schools across St James were given a chance to learn more about the life and work of Jamaica’s cultural icon, Dr the Honourable Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett Coverley, thanks to Monday’s unveiling of the Miss Lou...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of throwing her five-month-old daughter off the roof of a three-storey building, resulting in the child’s death, is to undergo a committal hearing on September 26 to facilitate the transfer...
WESTERN BUREAU: A female vendor, who was captured on video urinating in a container and then pouring the contents into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market (CGM) in Montego Bay, will face prosecution. Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, the medical...
WESTERN BUREAU: While stating that the 2024-2025 school year started well in western Jamaica yesterday, the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) says some high schools in western Jamaica are still dealing with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several enthusiastic students, many accompanied by their parents, were out early on Monday morning for the start of the 2024-2025 school year in rural St James. Some stood outside the gates of their schools for more than an hour,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay is now home to a new diagnostic medical facility, the ACCULAB Diagnostic Centre, where services are geared toward providing efficient and timely screening of patients, combining modern technology, high-quality business...
WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators in western Jamaica are expressing mixed feelings about the readiness of their institutions ahead of Monday’s start of the new academic year, with availability of school supplies and poor road conditions among...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, says the long-awaited National Identification System (NIDS) should be officially launched by the end of 2024. Dixon, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister and whose portfolio...
WESTERN BUREAU: Totlyn McDonald has every reason to rejoice after achieving first place in CB Food’s PAN 2024 competition on Sunday, where her passion for jerk-pan cooking went on display to help her win the competition’s $1 million prize. McDonald...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) prepares to answer a lawsuit brought against it by one of its own former presidents, there is uncertainty over whether the legal showdown may splinter the 60-year-old organisation or if it...
WESTERN BUREAU: The appearance of disgraced former Education Minister Ruel Reid at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA’s) just-concluded 60th annual conference is not a surprise to educators who attended the event, with some saying he was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mickel Jackson, the executive director of Jamaicans for Justice, wants the police to demonstrate accountability in the 10-year-old case of Mario Deane by starting the trial of the three officers charged in relation to his death when...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Dr Mark Smith believes addressing proper parenting in the home is key to stopping school violence, which he says must not be handled separately from violence at the societal level....
WESTERN BUREAU: Contrary to the belief that former Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) president La Sonja Harrison had not approved of the wage agreement signed with the Government in 2023, outgoing JTA president Leighton Johnson said that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mark Smith, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), wants a review of how examinations such as the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) are administered to ensure that students maintain an interest in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mugwena Maluleke, the president of Education International, says the working conditions of Jamaican teachers and their salaries must be improved to prevent the worsening problem of teachers migrating for better-paying jobs...
WESTERN BUREAU: A heated exchange erupted on Monday between outgoing Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Leighton Johnson and the president-elect for 2025-2026, Mark Malabver, over a lawsuit filed against the organisation by former...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorneys attached to the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) yesterday morning took issue with the court after learning that there would be a protracted delay in the handling of their clients’ cases, including matters which are set...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former United States military servicewoman, who was arrested on August 3, after a magazine containing 10 live rounds of ammunition was found in her luggage on her arrival in Jamaica, had her bail extended until September 18 when...
WESTERN BUREAU: Retired St James-based football referee Alva ‘Second’ Gordon was all smiles as he was presented with the Mayor of Montego Bay’s Special Award at Tuesday’s annual Spirit of Independence Civic and Awards ceremony in the western parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mickel Jackson, the executive director of local human rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice [JFJ], says the slow pace at which the case against three police officers who were charged in connection with the 2014 death of Mario Deane, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ten years after her son, Mario Deane, was killed while in police custody at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, Mercia Fraser is stepping up her efforts to get justice for him. Speaking with The Gleaner...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE CREATIVITY expressed through visual arts is not a vocation pursued by many young people in Jamaica, for 36-year-old Christopher Scott, it has been his passion from childhood. Scott, a native of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is confident that with St James’ crime statistics up to August 3, recording 42 fewer murders compared to the same period in 2023, the municipality is progressing in its objective of creating a safer...
