WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Jericho in eastern Hanover are peeved at the length of time it is taking to repair roads in their community which have been dug up to lay pipelines under a water-distribution project. It has been several months since...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have labelled the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and the Western Parks and Markets (WPM) as failing in their job and leaving the parish of Hanover wanting...
WESTERN BUREAU: A MEMBER of staff of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) was attacked and wounded while on the job in the Lucea Transportation Centre on Thursday. In a report from superintendent of police in charge of Hanover, Sharon Beeput,...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER WITHOUT Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Clifford Everald Warmington, has blamed poor maintenance for the bad condition of many of the roadways in the constituency of Eastern Hanover, arguing...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MANAGEMENT and staff of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Hanover office are highly anticipating their new office complex, which is being constructed in the Haughton Court area of Lucea, in the parish, and is...
Western Bureau: One of Western Jamaica’s top football players-turned-coach, Anthony ‘Follies’ Williams is dead. Follies, as he was affectionately called, a product and resident of the eastern Hanover town of Hopewell, passed peacefully on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE murder rate in the country reeling at more than three persons per day since the beginning of the year, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Aubyn Hill has expressed the view that criminal activity will not stop...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica, and Montego Bay in particular, will be the focal point for discussions surrounding the future of supply chains and free zones, legal issues concerning developments in global and regional trade, plus new technologies and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Newly minted Minister of Industry, Investment, and Commerce Aubyn Hill has identified the special economic zones (SEZ) as a key sector that can provide a well-needed boost to the Jamaican economy. Addressing the press launch of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD OF the European Union (EU) delegation to Jamaica and Belize, Ambassador Marianne Van Steen, says that despite many improvements in policies, practices and service delivery within the Jamaican justice sector, assisted by the EU...
WESTERN BUREAU: STAKEHOLDER groups have begun planning to alleviate traffic congestion in two of the major towns within the parish of Hanover – Hopewell and the capital Lucea. Both are noted for the long traffic delays and representatives from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR, multi-agency educational project is slated to take place in the Chambers Pen community in western Hanover. Under the project that is slated to begin in another four to six weeks, the Chambers Pen Primary and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER capital of Lucea and the town of Hopewell, also in the parish, will both benefit from beautification works in the coming weeks, as the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development’s ‘Paint the City, Paint the Town...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie has underscored the decision not to allow spectators at the upcoming Reggae Boyz Concacaf final-round football World Cup qualifier home matches slated to take place at...
WESTERN BUREAU: HAVING COME under fire from residents in Westmoreland about the rising crime situation in the parish, especially the number of murders being committed, Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has announced plans for personnel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Custos Rotolorum of Westmoreland Hartley Perrin has bemoaned the level of fear that is gripping residents of the crime-torn parish. “We are here, and we fraid like hell, when I leave here to go where I live I am going to be looking...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE THE ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic across the island and across the varying sectors of the economy over the last two years, the over 8,000 farmers in Hanover are hoping to improve their production levels for 2022 over the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HARD HIT by praedial larceny, Hanover farmers have been urged to report matters of stolen property to the police, and also develop a close relationship with the lawmen to reduce incidents and recover losses by having the culprits...
WESTERN BUREAU: PEDESTRIANS AND motorists who utilise the Orange Bay to Negril roadway in Hanover have welcomed the move by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to replace street lights that were stolen months after they were placed along a two...
WESTERN BUREAU: With several interest groups calling on the Government to readjust the New Year’s Eve curfew to an earlier time than the designated 1 a.m. as a COVID-19 controlling measure, Dr Kaushal Singh, the medical officer of health (MOH) for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover Charities (HC) this year handed out $29 million in support to some 205 students in the western parish. The Katrin Casserly-led charitable organisation has been playing a pivotal role in helping students access tertiary-level...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) infrastructure in Hanover is now under siege as thieves have removed street lights and power wires with impunity, blanketing roads in many communities in total darkness at night. The Orange Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels, who is also the chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), is committed to bringing Christmas cheer to children in the western parish with a special...
WESTERN BUREAU: For the first quarter of 2022, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) will be ramping up efforts to counteract a decline in revenue since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement comes on the heels of a recent...
WESTERN BUREAU Based on the plans being developed to handle the traffic flow in the town of Lucea during the upcoming Christmas season, pedestrians and motorists travelling through the Hanover parish capital should have things much easier than the...
