WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRIAL of Indra Waite, who allegedly conspired to smuggle over 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight bound for Canada in 2021, has been rescheduled for continuation in the St James Parish Court on December 5 due to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: RONALDO RICKETTS, the man accused of killing several homeless people in Montego Bay between July and August this year, is to be brought back to the St James Parish Court on December 5 as his case file is still incomplete. Presiding...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness is vowing that harsher penalties are on the horizon for perpetrators of violent crimes and those who shelter them or otherwise remain silent about their misdeeds. Holness made the pledge on Thursday...
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding is voicing fresh concerns that mandatory minimum sentences for murder and firearms offences could result in an overburdening of Jamaica’s prison system, which has previously been criticised for its...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING THE Government’s latest declaration of a state of public emergency (SOE) for St James, after Monday evening’s gun-slaying of two children in the parish, Opposition Leader Mark Golding is adamant that what is needed to...
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER and People’s National Party [PNP] President Mark Golding is accusing the media of not giving enough attention to Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ failure to have his 2021 and 2022 statutory declarations publicised....
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER and People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding is backing calls for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith to resign from her post, following Jamaica’s failure to cast a vote on a humanitarian...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Welness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced that, come February 2024, the ministry will sign a contract with a business-process outsourcing (BPO) company to create a telephone network for patients in Jamaica’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: JUST DAYS after Jamaica was rocked by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake last Monday, Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr used the impact of the incident to emphasise the Caribbean region’s need to strengthen its member...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH MINISTER Dr Christopher Tufton has clapped back at criticisms of the Government’s handling of Jamaica’s healthcare system. He declared that those who disparage the efforts of the Holness administration to revamp the health...
WESTERN BUREAU: DENSIL WILLIAMS, principal of The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, is recommending that measures be taken to maintain the Caribbean region’s sustainable economic growth and improve social security systems for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that his ministry will soon compile and release a full set of recommendations geared at benefiting employees of the Canadian farm work programme, following his recent fact-...
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding has criticised House Speaker Juliet Holness for not immediately sharing the attorney general’s opinion on the tabling in Parliament of reports from her department and the Integrity Commission....
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER and People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has issued a call for Jamaica’s healthcare system to receive a complete overhaul in order to tackle recurring issues such as limited bed spaces in hospitals...
WESTERN BUREAU: INDUSTRY, INVESTMENT and Commerce Minister Senator Aubyn Hill says micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) must seek to build their wealth by forging partnerships with overseas markets and clients instead of relying only on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING REPORTS that a female grade nine student of a St Elizabeth-based high school was raped by an older student at the institution earlier this week, Dr Morais Guy is questioning whether the proper procedure was initially...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT MINISTER Daryl Vaz has indicated that plans are progressing for the development of several air transport facilities across Jamaica, including the Negril Aerodrome in Westmoreland and the Ian Fleming International Airport...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE Sangster International Airport expected to welcome a record five million visitors this year by December, Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says he is satisfied with the ongoing efforts to expand the Montego Bay-based facility to...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR MORAIS Guy, the opposition spokesman on health, is recommending that the Ministry of Health and Wellness hold quarterly briefings to keep the public updated on the progression of restoration work at the St James-based Cornwall...
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding is urging the Government to treat the replacement of the collapsed Troy bridge in Trelawny Southern as an emergency situation. Golding made the call as residents in the parishes of Trelawny and...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is urging the church community to ensure that it plays its part in raising young people to be upstanding citizens, even as he vows that the authorities will continue to work with the Church...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEATED WORDS were exchanged on Friday as the lawyer for Indra Waite, the sole defendant now on trial for allegedly conspiring to smuggle more than 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight bound for Canada in 2021, called the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Charles ‘Ras Negus’ Largie, the Rastafarian whose arrest for possessing two pounds of ganja triggered a silent protest by other Rastafarians outside the St James Parish Court in April, is booked to return to court for his trial’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) has set a December deadline to submit to the police a crime study commissioned in an effort to identify the origin of crime and arrest its ongoing societal spread. Speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St Elizabeth man who was arrested in September 2021, after more than five kilogrammes of cocaine was allegedly found in his vehicle in Bogue Village, Montego Bay, is to return to the St James Parish Court on November 13 for the...
