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WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Alfred Dawes has accused Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton of wasting money on the ongoing restoration of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James, along with engaging in what he...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is facing calls to renounce his British citizenship as a demonstration of his “firm commitment” to Jamaica and to avoid any conflict of interest if he were to become prime minister. After a week of criticisms from...

Amid widespread calls for him to declare his British citizenship, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has indicated that he remains a British citizen but insists that there is no legal basis for him to renounce his status in the United Kingdom (UK) at...

WESTERN BUREAU Centenarian Nora Miller Welsh, a former head deaconess in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is said to be Jamaica’s oldest living person, having reached her 110th birthday. While she is now moving around through the use of a...

Western Bureau: Questions yesterday surrounded Saturday night’s bizarre shooting at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James. While initial reports, including from an alleged eyewitness, indicated that a policeman was disarmed on the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Rosetta Gooden-Anderson, a retired cane-cutter and farmer who now resides in Bastard Cedar Walk, has become Westmoreland and Jamaica’s newest centenarian. With Gooden-Anderson adorned by her centenarian’s crown, family members,...

It is a real mystery, to many residents in the rural district of Clifton in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, how two brothers - 15-year-old Amari Carby and 10-year-old Kemoy Allen, were rendered paraplegic just months apart. “The boys used to be very...

The current impasse between the Government and Opposition, on the report of the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), was bound to happen, according to AJ Nicholson, a former attorney general and minister of justice. Nicholson, speaking with The...

Jamaica would not benefit “at this time” from having a directly elected president, according to the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), which recommends retaining the Cabinet parliamentary system of government over the executive presidential...

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has indicated that plans are in place to collaborate with both early childhood institutions and primary schools to curb violence involving the nation’s youth. Dr Chang, who was speaking at...

Painting a dismal picture of a future Jamaica if the prevailing trend of student violence continues unabated, principal of Spanish Town Primary School Roogae Kirlew says there is dire need for the Ministry of Education to implement policy that...

WESTERN BUREAU: COMMANDER of the St James Police Division, acting Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, has tasked the 19 newly trained public transportation marshals, formerly known as loader men, to show respect to everyone using the public...