WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Bath, near Strathbogie, in Westmoreland, was thrown into mourning yesterday morning when residents woke up to the sad news that two brothers were shot and killed. A third brother was shot and injured by gunmen, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: A teenager from West End Road in Negril, Westmoreland, and a lifeguard from Little London, also in Westmoreland, are now in police custody in St Elizabeth facing robbery and gun-related charges. The charges stem from an incident in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Overseas reggae fans, who will be jetting into Montego Bay for the 2024 edition of Reggae Sumfest, which will be staged between July 14-20, can expect a warm embrace. The city’s mayor, Councillor Richard Vernon, says that a red-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two of St James’ most-feared gangsters were killed within 24 hours, in separate incidents this week. They have been identified as Collin ‘On Cock’ Walters, an enforcer from the notorious 13 Street Gang, which is based in Tucker,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Glenford Miller, who recently took command of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Area One, and his security team survived an attack by gunmen in Montego Bay, St James, late Wednesday night....
WESTERN BUREAU: The criminality plaguing the resort town of Negril, Westmoreland, continued late Monday night when armed thugs shot and injured a man and his wife in their bedroom. The couple are now nursing gunshots wounds at a medical facility....
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police division, which continues to be the epicentre of the nation’s bloodletting based on the latest police data, is to see a major shake-up in senior personnel, effective June 12. The parish, which has recorded more...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a slight reduction in the year-on-year decline in the number of murders committed in the county of Cornwall since 2024, the western region remains bloody with more than 150 killings so far this year, the latest police...
WESTERN BUREAU: While patrons are now gearing up for the customary revelling when Reggae Sumfest 2024 unfolds in Montego Bay, St James, between July 14 and 20, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has his eyes firmly set on the bigger prize, the...
Western Bureau: The official countdown to Reggae Sumfest 2024, Jamaica’s premier music festival, started on Thursday night at the Iberostar Resort, in Montego Bay, with a colourful launch, which was staged against a backdrop of pulsating music and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sporadic shootings in the resort town of Negril, including Tuesday night’s shooting along the popular Norman Manley Boulevard, and the constant blood-letting in nearby St James is creating jitters among tourism stakeholders in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Community Development Minister Desmond McKenzie on Tuesday stated that after eight years of making major investments in the agencies under his ministry, Jamaicans are now feeling their impact and becoming more...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sports Minister Olivia Grange has dismissed as untrue and tribal a statement from the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) accusing her of posting a photograph on her Instagram page in which she did not recognise former Prime...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 22-year-old police officer, who was on cell-guard duty at the Whithorn Police Station in Westmoreland on Saturday, was removed from duty and placed in custody at the same lockup after he was allegedly caught trying to smuggle...
WESTERN BUREAU: Duojon Griffiths, the 24-year-old man implicated in the 2021 murder of fellow Montego Bay resident 20-year-old Massania ‘Karla’ Malcolm and her one-year-old daughter Jordania, was indicted on murder and gun charges by a Florida...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sergeant Arleen McBean, the newly elected chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation, says she is ready to take on whatever challenges lie ahead. “I don’t like to say the road is hard. I will use the words ‘the road appears...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Senator Peter Bunting has labelled Prime Minister Andrew Holness a self-serving hypocrite and coward for seeking to make an issue out of the dual citizenship controversy involving Opposition Leader Mark Golding, saying he...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that going forward, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be looking inward to fill leadership vacancies, including the post of commissioner and in areas of specialisation....
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay-based auto mechanic Luther Reid, who is still reeling from the news that his son was shot and injured in a bizarre shooting incident at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James on Saturday night, is...
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: Senior Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis, after serving an unprecedented six and a half years, is no longer the commander officer for the St James Police division, having taken up new duties in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT Vernon Ellis, whose tenure as police commander for St James will end this weekend, seems to be making one more powerful statement before he leaves as in his latest initiative to rid the parish of illegal...
Western Bureau The news that Doujon Dwayne Griffiths, the 23-year-old man accused of the 2021 killing of 20-year-old Massania ‘Carla-Shay’ Malcolm and her baby daughter ‘Karlie,’ in Miami, Florida, has been caught and arrested by the United States...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ignorance of the law appears to have been the culprit in the failure to seat two of the 17 candidates, who were successful in the February 26 local government election, and should have been sworn in at this past Thursday’s first...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANTHONY FINDLAY, who pleaded guilty to the March 12, 2023 murder of two-year-old Adrian Campbell of Mack Hill district, Trelawny, was sentenced to a combined total of 51 years in prison in the Trelawny Circuit Court on Tuesday. He...
