WESTERN BUREAU: Eighteen-year-old Timothy Kent, a grade-11 student of Rhodes Hall High School in Hanover, has been chosen to serve as the Hanover Municipal Corporation’s (HMC) 2021 Youth Mayor. Kent was selected from a field of five students,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight of the 10 street lights which were recently installed along the Orange Bay to Negril roadway in Hanover have been stolen. The lights were erected in response to pleas from residents and motorists, who were faced with the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justices of the peace (JPs) in the parishes of Hanover and Trelawny are now collecting their new seals of authorisation as the Ministry of Justice has commenced its pilot project, which will eventually see all JPs across the island...
WESTERN BUREAU: As global concerns swirl over the new Omicron variant, Dr Kaushal Singh, medical officer of health (MOH) in Hanover, has warned that the projected fourth wave of the deadly coronavirus here could be devastating and is pleading with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Retired educator Kaydeen Myles-Campbell will be the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) candidate for the Chester Castle division in Hanover Eastern, in the next local government election, after she emerged victorious over incumbent...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) appears set to hand over the control of the Watson Taylor Park in Lucea to a group known as ‘Friends of the Watson Taylor Park’, which has made an application to manage the facility, as the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The decision as to whether Fearon DeCarish, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Chester Castle division in eastern Hanover, will be kept on for the next local government elections or if he will be booted is set to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE operators of illegal motorcycles said to be prominently in committing street crimes and other crimes in Hanover, the police traffic division in the parish is now gearing up for major assault aimed at removing them from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some 22 persons, 17 from the Hanover division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and five from the Hanover Municipal Corporation’s (HMC) Poor Relief Department were presented with Heroes Awards during...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Santoy district in Hanover have resorted to blocking the main road in their community to keep out trucks transporting marl to a site that is being dumped up to construct a new hotel in Green Island. According to the...
Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is bemoaning the acute shortage of reliable trucks, which is negatively impacting the organisation’s capacity to be efficient in garbage collection...
WESTERN BUREAU: A novel, three-prong solid waste reduction project was on Thursday launched in the Chambers Pen community in western Hanover by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), in collaboration with its western regional arm,...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROAD USERS in Hanover are poised to see some much better road surfaces across the parish as, during the upcoming weeks, the National Works Agency (NWA) will be undertaking four major road projects spanning several communities....
WESTERN BUREAU: With stakeholders worried that the Hopewell cemetery is on the verge of running out of space, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has been advised to acquire an adjoining 11-acre property to expand the burial ground. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: The daily traffic congestion plaguing several townships in Hanover, including the parish capital Lucea, has drawn the wrath of Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the police commander who wants swift action to be taken to address the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Health Department (HHD) has said it will be seeking to inoculate approximately 6,000 persons in the western parish over the next four weeks as part of its effort to boost the national campaign to get as many Jamaicans as...
WESTERN BUREAU: As an act of gratitude for their efforts, healthcare workers who have been on the frontline in the battle to control the spread of the coronavirus in Hanover, will be at the forefront of the parish’s celebration of National Heroes...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jasmin Johnson, principal of the Bethel Primary School in Hanover, has always had a passion to serve persons with disabilities, so it is not surprising that she has made it a personal project to make regular visits to the West Haven...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE URGING vaccination compliance, Dr Marcia Johnson-Campbell, the regional non-communicable disease programme coordinator in the Western Regional Health Authority, is also calling on Jamaicans to provide each other with physical...
WESTERN BUREAU: While some communities are expressing disgust with the damage to their roads by truckers transporting dumping material to a site under preparation for a new 2,000-room hotel in Hanover Western, the constituency’s Member of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tamika Davis, the member of parliament (MP) for Hanover Western, has joined the growing list of stakeholders calling for the establishment of the much-talked-about Lucea bypass road to address the daily traffic congestion in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a bold bid to curtail the spread of the deadly COVID-19, Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels has established a high-profile task force to execute an ‘all-hands-on-deck’ approach to deal with the troublesome medical crisis in Hanover. “...
Councillor Marvin Sewell of the Green Island division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), says he regrets supporting the approval for the construction of the Princess Hotel, which is to be located in Green Island. The councillor’s regret is...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE increasing demand for space at the Hopewell cemetery in Hanover, there is now great fear among residents of eastern Hanover that they will soon be out of space to bury their deceased loved ones. Ever since the cemetery in...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the courts in the neighbouring parishes of St James and Westmoreland have had to close their doors because of their inability to function amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Hanover courts, through pre-planning and...
