Western Bureau: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says he will be proposing a reduction in the fees being charged by municipal corporations for the staging of entertainment events when the green light is given for the reopening of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the Lay Magistrate Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) wants to see a continuation of the existing arrangement that sees some parishes having justices of the peace (JP) associations and lay magistrate associations operating...
WESTERN BUREAU: Andre Lawrence, the newly minted president of the Hanover Justices of the Peace Association (HJPA), has hit the ground running as just days after his elevation to the position, he has made his presence felt in the Cacoon Community...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Cacoon Community Development Committee (CDC) has initiated a drive to ensure that the children, the aged and the needy are fed with breakfast on Tuesdays and Fridays. The CDC plans to extend this initiative to all weekdays, by...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is now officially here, Kenisha Dunbar, the disaster preparedness coordinator for Hanover, says the western parish is only partially ready and preparatory work will continue during the months...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Clerk of the Courts at the Hanover Parish Court, Andre Lawrence, has been elected to serve as the new president of the Hanover Justices of the Peace Association (HJPA) for the 2021/222 administrative year. Lawrence, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Easton Edwards, the councillor for the Lucea division, wants the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), the police, and local business stakeholders to join forces in seeking to get JamaicaEye to establish a CCTV network in the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: The stormy relationship between the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) grew more contentious at the corporation’s monthly meeting last Thursday, as councillors took Detommie Fuller, JPS’...
WESTERN BUREAU: An increasing volume of prank calls to the Hanover Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade has been wreaking havoc on the firefighters, who are being kept busy responding to non-existent fires, sapping their energy and resulting in...
Western Bureau: Two of the three so-called rehabilitation centres which were issued with closure notices by the Hanover Health Department (HHD), are still operating in defiance of the order, while a third facility, whose operation is also...
Western Bureau: With the parish development committee (PDC) now up and running, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has decided to establish a local public accounts committee (PAC) to oversee its income and budgetary expenditures, among other...
Western Bureau: Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the police commander for the Hanover Division, is appealing to residents of the western parish to comply with the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) requirements, especially in the observance of...
Western Bureau: Despite being the nation’s smallest parish, Hanover has recorded the largest number of arrests as it relates to breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) since the measure was introduced in March 2020 as part of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: As national outrage continues to mount amid the growing cases of violence against the nation’s women and children, the Hanover Parish Development Committee (HPDC) has joined the fray in registering its disgust, while calling for an...
Western Bureau: Last Thursday’s Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) recruitment drive in St James was an overwhelming success as approximately 265 applicants turned out for what was the second such exercise in the police Area One division, which...
WESTERN BUREAU: With legal action mounted against two illegal rehabilitation centres in the parish, Hanover health authorities have stumbled upon yet another such facility. The development has stoked the ire of the Hanover Health Department (HHD)...
Western Bureau: Residents of Jericho and Claremont in eastern Hanover are now breathing a collective sigh of relief as a 2.7-kilometre of roadway that joins the two districts, which was in state of disrepair, is now being fixed. Janel Ricketts, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE public cemeteries now running out of space and backyard burials all but completely outlawed, residents in Hanover are becoming increasingly worried about what will become of deceased persons in the near future, if this...
WESTERN BUREAU: The revenue intake at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has taken a major beating as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the corporation in dire straits as it relates to maintaining its various services....
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Public Health Department (HHD) is to initiate court action against the operators of the Chances Rehabilitation Centre, which is not only operating without the requisite permission from the Hanover Municipal Corporation (...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several Hanover residents who responded to calls to take their first of two COVID-19 jabs at the Orchard Sports Complex in Hopewell yesterday were disappointed when at the 9 a.m. appointed time, the vaccines and many of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has given approval for construction work to start on phase one of the Princess Hotel in Industry Cove, Green Island, which will increase the parish’s hotel room stock by 1,010 luxury rooms....
WESTERN BUREAU: Justices of the Peace (JPs) across the island will be assigned government email addresses shortly, as part of a drive by the Ministry of Justice to get them to engage in technology in carrying out the various obligations of their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is expressing disappointment that, despite the availability of funds and lands identified for construction, the much-needed Hanover Justice Centre has still not rolled off the drawing board. During a...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the need to educate the public about the importance of getting vaccinated as part of the national effort to blunt the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck is now seeking the help of the island’s justices of the...
