WESTERN BUREAU: THIEVES ARE on the rampage in the usually quiet Hopewell community in Hanover, having broken into some four bar establishments over the last two weeks, and with two motor vehicles stolen during the last week. The multimillion-dollar...
WESTERN BUREAU: MORE THAN 300 Hanoverians, who turned out for the 12th in a series of Jamaica Regiment Band poppy appeal fundraising concerts, were treated to a musical feast at the Old Jockey Factory complex on Watson Taylor Drive, in Lucea,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Over 200 students from basic schools across the parish of Hanover were examined and treated for hearing abnormalities over a four-day period under a special project implemented through the Tryall Fund, a non-profit registered...
WESTERN BUREAU: When the next general election is called, there is expected to be a unique contest in Hanover Western, as two “home girls”, both of whom are practising attorneys in the parish of their birth, will be up against each other. Member of...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SOME 126 persons were being given national honours and awards in Kingston on Monday, Hanover honoured 10 of its residents for outstanding service to community and the parish. Citations were read for the four men and six women...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH SANITARY conditions at food establishments being the main topic of discussion across Jamaica over the last week, the Hanover Health Department (HHD), in keeping with its mandate to oversee the sanitary conditions at all food...
WESTERN BUREAU: BROKEN CABLE wires, some dangling in mid-air, some touching the ground in the middle of streets, and others hanging across driveways and streets, are a cause of major concern in the town of Lucea, Hanover. During the October monthly...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE DECISION of the police to cease issuing permits for the staging of parties within the parish of Hanover has not gone down well with councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), who have all voiced disapproval. While...
WESTERN BUREAU: The inspector of poor at the Hanover Municipal Corporation wants to see the Bellevue Hospital reconsider its approach to accepting patients as some families and communities are not equipped to deal with those sent home to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: COUNCILLOR FOR the Green Island division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), Marvel Sewell, has described the contract work system being used by several business establishments across the island as modern-day slavery, while...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LEADERSHIP at the Sandy Bay Police Station, in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Hanover division, has begun to put strategies and plans in place to counter indiscipline and any form of criminal activity that may raise its...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO-TIME Member of Parliament (MP) for Hanover Eastern, Dave Brown, firmly believes that he will retain the seat for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) when the next general election is called. Brown, a 57-year-old former Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Municipal Corporation (HMC) has again issued the Doer of Faith Church of God in Hopewell, Hanover, with a stop order over a retaining wall that was being done without its approval. Chief engineering officer of the HMC,...
Western Bureau Following a tour of some badly damaged roads in Western Hanover, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie, while issuing some criticisms about the roads being allowed to deteriorate to the level they are at...
WESTERN BUREAU: The public cemetery in the Hanover seaside capital of Lucea is in a sordid state as shrubs obscure many of the graves and overgrowth has turned into huge trees as a result of neglect. The terrible state of affairs, over which many...
WESTERN BUREAU An air of calm has returned to the Green Island High School community in Hanover as the matter of motor vehicles being parked along the sidewalk outside the gates of the school compound has been addressed. This had followed...
Western Bureau With the start of the 2023-2024 academic year just days away, several parents and teachers in the Green Island area of Hanover are expressing concern over what is being described as “a clear-and-present danger” for students of Green...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two Hanover schools, Lucea Primary and Esher Primary, are the first to receive donations from Dreams 4 Jamaica, a newly formed charitable organisation comprising Jamaicans in the US. Principals for both schools, Mrs Y. Anderson-...
WESTERN BUREAU The hard work, determination and sacrifices made by 30 students, 15 each from the Esher Primary and Lucea Primary schools in western Hanover have been celebrated by the Henworth and Sarah Campbell Family Foundation. The students will...
WESTERN BUREAU President of the Community Development Committee (CDC) in Woodsville, Hanover, Sashagay Frazer, is calling on the authorities to make good on several promises to fix the alternate route into the community as to date nothing has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Woodsville, Flower Hill and Hillsbrook, in Eastern Hanover, should be breathing a sigh of relief, at the recent announcement of a government allocation of some $75 million, towards the replacement of the collapsed...
Western Bureau: With the deplorable state of the roads in eastern Hanover causing a nightmare for motorists and paedestrians alike, Derrick Wright, the president of the Hopewell Citizens Association, says he is very concerned about the situation...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE THE sweltering heat and sporadic bouts of rain, residents of Green Island, Hanover, turned out in large numbers on Tuesday to participate in a peace march and public meeting, which formed part of their effort to draw...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seven-year-old Alenia Hall, a grade-two student at the Jericho Primary and Infant School in Hanover, walked away with the coveted Mini Miss Jericho Reunion 2023 title on July 24, as the curtain came down on the 10th edition of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two hundred and sixty-four students from Hanover, who are pursuing varying degrees of studies, will have one less thing to worry about come the start of the 2024 academic year, as the Tryall Fund, one of the parish’s premier...
