Western Bureau The shoddy state of seven of the nine public cemeteries in Hanover has once again emerged as a matter of grave concern to residents, who are taking the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) to task for not seeing to the proper...
Western Bureau: As a result of a lukewarm response to the initiative, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has taken a decision to extend the building amnesty that was declared in the parish in November to bring errant contractors into...
WESTERN BUREAU: Marvell Sewell, councillor for the Green Island division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), has embarked on a project to refurbish several community centres and playing fields, starting with J$7 million of refurbishing and...
Western Bureau: Dr Kaushal Singh, medical officer of health for Hanover, will be gunning for a revival of district health committees and installation of pharmacies at various district health facilities across the parish to improve the local health...
Western Bureau: Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels has listed the creation of a bypass to ease traffic congestion in the Hanover capital and improvement works for the Lucea Harbour among several development plans for which he will be advocating during...
Despite the ongoing state of public emergency (SOE) in Hanover, residents of the western parish demonstrated that nothing would dampen their Christmas celebrations as they braved the rains on Tuesday and Wednesday night last week and turned out in...
Western Bureau: Health officials in Hanover are expressing fears that the parish could be facing an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease, even as work intensifies to stave off the ongoing dengue scare. Speaking at the general meeting of the...
Western Bureau: Motorists and pedestrians are now avoiding Willie Delliser Boulevard in Lucea, Hanover, because of an overpowering, foul odour, which is believed to be raw sewage that has entered the drains along the roadway from a defective...
Western Bureau: It was Monday morning, December 9, 2019, and tears of joy flowed in eastern Hanover. Vuvuzelas and pot covers provided jubilant background instrumentals to the non-stop dancing and celebration of students, staff, and parents of the...
Western Bureau: Five months after the Hanover Parish Development Committee (PDC) selected a new executive at its annual general meeting (AGM), the organisation is now without a leader to spearhead its operations. In June, businessman Dwayne Clayton...
The housing stock in Hanover is set to increase with the opening of phase one of the Oceanpointe Housing Scheme in the parish early next year. Senior Project Manager for Cascade Group’s Infinite Concrete Limited, Edward Depass, says that 400 units...
WESTERN BUREAU: While acknowledging that artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging industry, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has reaffirmed that it cannot replace the personal touch of the people, especially in a service sector like tourism....
WESTERN BUREAU: While acknowledging that artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging industry, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has reaffirmed that it cannot replace the personal touch of the people, especially in a service sector like tourism....
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and the National Works Agency (NWA) have developed a comprehensive plan that they are hoping will adequately address the chronic traffic congestion in Lucea, the Hanover parish capital....
Western Bureau: Councillors of the Hanover Municipal Corporation have shot down the parish’s health department’s report which was tabled during the corporation’s regular monthly meeting on Thursday, November 14, claiming it was misleading to all...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover police have launched an investigation following the detention of a man who is believed to be impersonating a justice of the peace (JP). While confirming the incident, the police told The Gleaner that the name of the...
Western Bureau: The Rotary Club of Lucea, Hanover, is desirous of gifting the Noel Holmes Hospital with equipment needed to establish a renal unit, but because of the absence of the supporting resources, the project has had to be put on hold....
Western Bureau: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has embarked on a full-scale public-educaton exercise even as it announced a building amnesty for the parish. At the corporation’s physical planning and environment committee meeting on...
Western Bureau: Councillors of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) are disgruntled with how the Housing, Opportunities, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme is being rolled out in the parish. The HOPE programme is being implemented by the...
Western Bureau: Today could be an important day in a sexual harassment scandal dogging the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), as a number of staff members call for action against a senior officer, who has been accused of inappropriate behaviour....
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents and business operators, including hoteliers who have been flouting building regulations in Hanover, have been given three months to get their affairs in order amid an amnesty and a stay of court action until next February...
WESTERN BUREAU: The drought is over. That’s the word from Evan Thompson, head of the Meteorological Service Jamaica, based on the data collected for current rainfall patterns across the island. That will be welcome news to Jamaica’s farming...
Western Bureau: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid is joining the call for cultural icon Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately called Miss Lou, to be declared a national hero. Delivering the main address at a Heroes Day...
Western Bureau: Tensions are rising in Hanover over the increasing number of persons being affected by dengue-like symptoms, although the parish’s health department is contending that there is no cause for alarm. Dr Kaushal Singh, the medical...
Western Bureau: Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the police commander for Hanover, is flatly rejecting claims by Lucea’s mayor, Sheridan Samuels, that crime has increased in the Orange Bay section of the parish since the removal of a military...
