WESTERN BUREAU: Ahead of Hurricane Beryl’s expected landfall in Jamaica today, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says it has moved to send home patients who do not need in-hospital care, as part of efforts to outfit its hospital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Schools within the Ministry of Education’s [MOE] Region 4 zone in western Jamaica are among Jamaica’s various educational institutions which will have their planned examination and graduation schedules moved up in light of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) on Monday ramped up its preparations for a looming Hurricane Beryl, outfitting emergency shelters and cleaning gullies and drains. Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon, who chairs the StJMC,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says that while strides have been made in improving the various benefits offered to both active and retired police personnel, support must still be provided to ensure that they receive...
WESTERN BUREAU: Six first-year students of the Mt Alvernia High School in Montego Bay, St James have received much-needed financial assistance from members of the school’s graduating class of 1989, with each student receiving $75,000 in aid to...
WESTERN BUREAU: British national Sianece Clarke-Johnson has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment or a fine of $300,000 after being convicted on cocaine-smuggling charges. On February 26, Clarke-Johnson checked in at the Sangster International...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Nurses’ Association of Jamaica [NAJ] is acknowledging that while nurses and other medical personnel who go overseas for training should ideally return to Jamaica to impart their skills locally, in some cases many of them migrate...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR YEARS after announcing plans for the construction of a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] institution in his St James North Western constituency, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang says that he is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nerissa J. Persaud, the newest president of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, is set on promoting literacy empowerment for schools and uplifting of community spirit in the western city as the mandate for her year-long administration...
WESTERN BUREAU: Less than 10 years after Mario Deane died from injuries he received after being beaten while in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station’s lock-up in Montego Bay, St James, his mother Mercia Fraser still struggles with renewed...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has set July 15 as the next mention date for Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who allegedly tried to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport on May 9...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang is asserting that while the security forces have been working to halt the flow of drug smuggling operations through Jamaica’s ports of entry, more needs to be done to disrupt narcotics...
WESTERN BUREAU: In light of recent reports of violence in schools across Jamaica, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has emphasised the ongoing need to prioritise social intervention strategies alongside police support to curb the impact of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man charged in connection with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, has once again been denied bail following his latest appearance in the St James Circuit Court...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica’s annual hurricane season having started as of June 1, and with 1,522 reported cases of dengue fever in St James since last September, St James’ medical officer of health Dr Tanique Bailey-Small is renewing calls for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Deputy Mayor, Dwight Crawford, is lamenting that not enough families of the deceased buried in the western city’s historical Pye River Cemetery are helping to maintain the 128-year-old burial ground, even as he gives...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court will learn on September 24 whether an application will be made for the ex-girlfriend of Dorrane Bryan, who allegedly posted intimate videos of her on social media without her knowledge, to give evidence...
WESTERN BUREAU: The presiding judge in the case of Lavaughn Cooke, who is charged with the March 17 murder of security guard Nastacia Smith, rebuked the prosecution and the investigating officer on Wednesday, arguing that the defendant, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of 16 members of the Qahal Yahweh religious group, who are charged with several counts of breaching the Child Care and Protection Act and the Education Act, has been put off for continuation to July 26 due to one defendant...
WESTERN BUREAU: Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who reportedly tried to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport on May 9, seems to have got a rude awakening in the Jamaican jailhouse where he...
WESTERN BUREAU: WOMEN WHO attend the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth to give birth can look forward to a pleasant surprise of gifts for their newborns on the gift-givers’ birthdays, in a reversal of normal gift-giving expectations, through the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oppley Ebanks, the St James man who reportedly used a stone to beat another man to death during a confrontation on January 14, will learn whether his case will be tried in the St James Circuit Court when he attends his scheduled...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Accompong, St Elizabeth has a decades-old legacy of kindness and family values embodied in Eglah Blake, a 100-year-old resident who recently celebrated her milestone birthday and is currently the oldest living...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thomas Edwards, the Manchester resident who was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle $18.7 million worth of cocaine through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport on May 22, was offered bail in the sum of $1.2 million when...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dutch national Patrick Crawford, who has been charged for allegedly attempting to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine on a flight on May 9, is to next appearance before the court on June 10. Crawford, a 44-year-old carpenter of a...
