WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER YEARS of trying various policing initiatives, including states of emergency (SOE) and zones of special operations (ZOSO), to combat the rapid lawlessness which has been plaguing western Jamaica for over two decades, the Area...
Western Bureau: In a March 2016 Gleaner article, published under the headline, ‘Overwhelming GSAT optimism out west’, a then 12-year-old Ronaldinho ‘Mike’ Headley, who was a student at Hampden Primary School, on the Trelawny-St James border, was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Sangster International Airport now has an ambulance and medical team on location to better handle medical emergencies after a terminal tragedy last week left the Montego Bay-based facility with a black eye. The Gleaner was...
Western Bureau: Lennox Wallace, head of the St James Public Health Services (StJPHS), says failures on the part of MBJ Airport Limited, the operators of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, are to be blamed for Leroy Smith not being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is accusing the operators of the Sangster International Airport of attempting to shift blame amid ongoing criticism of the handling of last week’s incident in which 71-year-old...
Western Bureau: The nephew of a man who died at the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, St James, last Wednesday after falling and hitting his head says in addition to not receiving timely medical attention, his uncle’s body was...
Western Bureau: After an 11-year hiatus, cultural reggae showcase Western Consciousness will be back on the local entertainment calendar in December 2025 and will be staged over two days. The event was held for 24 consecutive years between...
WESTERN BUREAU: Carlington ‘Tommy’ Godfrey, who was one of the prime targets on the Westmoreland police’s most wanted list for a series of crimes, including multiple murders committed in several communities across the parish, was killed in an...
Western Bureau: The fragile peace that has been holding in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, since a major police-military crackdown against criminal gangs in March, was broken on Wednesday with the double murder of two teenagers outside a nightclub in...
Western Bureau: EVERTON TOMLINSON, president of the Westmoreland Football Association, says his former Reno FC teammate, former national midfielder Boysie ‘Bengeleng’ Nicholson, who died yesterday after battling Parkinson’s Disease for several...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fire of unknown origin destroyed three makeshift shops at the burnt-out Montego Bay Arcade in St James early Wednesday morning, leaving behind millions of dollars in losses. According to reports, at about 12:10 a.m., huge columns...
Western Bureau: With the transformative possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) now taking root globally, changing the world from the way we used to know it, Jamaican author and visionary thinker Theo Chambers has decided to delve into this...
Western Bureau: With the members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Area One remaining laser-focused on blunting the lawlessness plaguing the division – comprising St James, Westmoreland, Hanover, and Trelawny, and with the region’s crime...
Western Bureau: If Falmouth native, 16-year-old Jahmaree Reid, was killed by a shark, as has been widely suspected, it would be a particularly rare occurrence as based on the Florida Museum of National History and the American Elasmobranch Society...
WESTERN BUREAU: A Trelawny family is now mourning the death of 16-year-old William Knibb Memorial High School student Jahmaree Reid, who perished at sea on Monday, the apparent victim of a shark attack off the coast of the seaside capital. Late...
Western Bureau: Despite the multibillion-dollar hit Jamaica took from Hurricane Beryl, which did serious damage to various key sectors to include agriculture and tourism, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says that while there will be an uptick in headline...
WESTERN BUREAU: The police have flatly rejected a suggestion that the island’s crime figures are being under-reported. According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) latest crime statistics, up to August 3, there were some 692 murders across...
Western Bureau: A food and beverage manager connected to a popular local hotel chain is now under police investigation in connection with Saturday’s shooing death of another man during a bird-shooting exercise in bushes in Barrett Hall in St James...
Western Bureau: Westmoreland lost one of its most revered sons yesterday when renowned funeral director, Dr Robert ‘Tony’ Doyley, of the Savanna-la-Mar-based Doyley Funeral Home, collapsed and died while playing the organ at the funeral of his...
Western Bureau: Yesterday, track and field coach Rodrick Myles, who is the current coach at William Knibb High School, the alma mater of sprint legend Usain Bolt, was on ‘cloud nine’ as he watched Rojé Stona break the Olympic discus record, and, in...
Western Bureau: Dr Derek Harvey, who recently retired after serving the local health sector for 39 years, which includes his 34-year engagement at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), was hailed for his unwavering dedication and commitment at a...
Western Bureau: Chief Richard Currie, the leader of the Accompong Maroons, is blaming the current tension in Quickstep, the Maroon community along the Trelawny-St Elizabeth border, on what he claimed was the Government’s bid to illicitly exploit...
Western Bureau: In the future, whenever boat captain Caval Smith, of Cave district, Westmoreland, hears Shaggy’s hit song, It Wasn’t Me, it should bring back bittersweet memories. Last Friday, Smiths driver’s licence was found in a parking lot in...
Western Bureau: Four men who reportedly engaged members of the security forces in a blazing gunfight in the resort town of Negril, Westmoreland, early yesterday morning, were shot and killed and six firearms, including three rifles, seized. While...
