WESTERN BUREAU: With 19 murders committed in Hanover since the start of the year, lead personnel in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Hanover Division are viewing that figure positively. “We are looking at 19 (murders) now, 25 last year to date,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the Orchard Housing Scheme in Hopewell, Hanover, are calling for the removal of all political paraphernalia in their community. The call has come over two months after the local polls and against the background of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH NOT regarded as one of the crime hotspots in Hanover, the police say Hopewell has a high incidence of domestic violence. Inspector of Police Godfrey Lawrence, the officer in charge of the recently opened Hopewell Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: The proposed merger between the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), which was announced by Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, last year, is still in the making and should...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hopewell, Hanover, are now crying for help to rid the town of a growing pile of metal waste, which is ballooning in the ‘River Gully’ area. They say that in addition to being an eyesore, there are also health concerns...
WESTERN BUREAU The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) is to write to the National Water Commission (NWC), seeking information on its plans to address the impact of drought conditions for residents of Hanover, as despite the presence of several...
WESTERN BUREAU: THIEVES HAVE removed seven of 10 Jamaica Public Service (JPS)-installed street lights in Orange Bay, Western Hanover, once again, leaving the five-kilometre stretch of roadway between the Orange Bay Housing Scheme and Negril in...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has been utilising a number of measures to cool down several hotspots in the parish. Montpelier in eastern Hanover, and Green Island in the western section of the parish,...
Western Bureau: The bad road conditions across Hanover have spurred Mayor of Lucea Sheridan Samuels to come up with the idea of naming the potholes along the roadways in ‘honour’ of the members of parliament (MPs) in the parish. Dave Brown is the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THIRTY-THREE young people from across western Hanover who participated in an eight-week youth mentorship programme have successfully completed the programme. Now, they are looking to put what they have learnt over the period into...
WESTERN BUREAU: NECESSITY IS the mother of invention. That is an idiom commonly used and is now proven by the residents of Woodsville, in Hanover eastern, a deep-rural community that also falls in the Hopewell division in the Hanover Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR OF the seven newly elected councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) who made an affirmation instead of swearing on the Bible at that corporation’s swearing-in ceremony on Thursday March 7 will have to go through...
Western Bureau: Residents in sections of Eastern Hanover, mainly in the Hopewell and Chester Castle divisions of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), are expressing deep concern about the number of non-functioning fire hydrants that are in...
Western Bureau: Individuals living in the growing residential and economic town of Hopewell, in Hanover, can now breathe a sigh of relief having received an improved police presence in that area through the official opening of the Hopewell Police...
Western Bureau: Outgoing Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, says he feels a sense of accomplishment as he leaves the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) today, describing his tour of duty as a leg of a relay that he has completed...
WESTERN BUREAU: MAYOR OF Lucea and chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) Sheridan Samuels has listed street vending in the Hanover capital, Lucea, as an issue which will be getting immediate priority attention from that corporation. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBER OF Parliament for Hanover Western, Tamika Davis, says she is not daunted by the loss of the one Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) divisional seat the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had in her constituency prior to the recent...
Western Bureau The leadership in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has remained as it was prior to the recent local government elections as, following the swearing in ceremony for the seven elected People’s National Party (PNP) councillors in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE local government election now a thing of the past, and the People’s National Party (PNP) declared the winner of all seven council divisions in Hanover, questions of who will be the next mayor of Lucea, and chairman of the...
Western Bureau: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says feedback he has received from residents, during his recent travels across the country, shows that proper roads and a good water supply are their greatest needs at present, and all other things...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE SEVERAL visits from three ministers of government – Desmond McKenzie, Everald Warmington, and Matthew Samuda – as well as two visits from Prime Minister Andrew Holness to the parish over the last month, the people of Hanover...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Municipal Corporation’s (HMC) Chester Castle division in Eastern Hanover is noted for regularly changing its political representatives. No councillor in the recent past – except one of the persons on the 2024 ballot,...
Western Bureau The contest for the Hopewell division in the Hanover Municipal Council (HMC) is getting more interesting with time, as the February 26 local government elections draw near. The incumbent, Devon Brown, of the Jamaica Labour Party (...
WESTERN BUREAU: The long-promised police station in Hanover’s fastest-growing economic and residential area, Hopewell, is scheduled to be opened in another two months. Although not giving a specific date, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford...
WESTERN BUREAU: Over 200 justices of the peace from the parishes of St James, Hanover, and Westmoreland, accompanied by their respective custodes, participated in over four hours of training and information sharing on Friday February 9, at a...
