WESTERN BUREAU: Lucea’s deputy mayor, Andria Dehaney-Grant, is calling for the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) to direct more of its resources to Hanover, saying the parish, which shares the resort town of Negril with Westmoreland, is not getting...
Western Bureau: Two park benches, valued at more than US$1,000, have been installed at Watson Taylor Park in Lucea, Hanover, courtesy of the Friends of Watson Taylor Park (FWTP), a new non-profit, charitable organisation, consisting of local...
Western Bureau: With more than 100 adults and children showing up at the Sandy Bay Primary School, in Hanover, for last weekend’s health fair, which was staged by the Indian High Commission in collaboration with the Hanover Municipal Corporation (...
Western Bureau: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), which is seeking to add much-needed cash to its coffers, says it will be ramping up its revenue collection drive across the parish in the coming weeks, with special attention being given to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The special anniversary committee, which was established to plan, organise, coordinate, promote and implement events for the 300th anniversary of the parish of Hanover, is now officially a subcommittee of the Hanover Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty primary and preparatory school students from Western Hanover, who had excellent results in their Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Examinations, were fêted by their member of parliament, Tamika Davis, on Sunday. The ceremony, dubbed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Plans are well advanced for a school and community health fair to be staged at the Sandy Bay Primary School in Hanover this Sunday, thanks to an initiative by Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Rungsung Masakui, who made a...
Western Bureau: Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Minister Floyd Green has revealed that the sweltering heat now impacting Jamaica is negatively affecting the nation’s food production. The effects of the high temperatures are being manifested in...
WESTERN BUREAU The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) is inviting youths from across the parish to submit applications for the Ministry of Local Government’s Youth Summer Employment Programme (YSEP). Mayor of Lucea, and chairman of the HMC,...
WESTERN BUREAU Parish officials and public passenger vehicle operators have welcomed proposed plans by the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) to construct a transportation centre for the town of Green Island, in the western end of the parish. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: “It’s like a death trap, or walking in a minefield,” one operator of a business along Main Street, Lucea, told The Gleaner about the walk along that thoroughfare in the Hanover capital. What was supposed to be a multifaceted,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PEOPLE’S People’s National Party’s (PNP) political machinery in the Eastern Hanover constituency now has two new faces at its leadership level. They are in Lennox ‘Zico’ Fray, the divisional chairman for the Hopewell Division,...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT IS not an everyday achievement for parents and children to receive the same recognition for excellence and the level of social and community work that they have done over their lifetime. However, Andria Dehaney-Grant, principal...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTRY OF Education building officers and administrators at the Hopewell High School in Hanover are expressing deep concern about the structural integrity and safety of a block of classrooms at that institution. Classrooms sit...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Justices of the Peace Association (HJPA) has elected Kaneisha Pyne-Palmer as the new president for its 2023-2024 administrative year. Pyne-Palmer, a business process outsourcing (BPO) executive, replaces immediate past...
WESTERN BUREAU Retired educator, former dean of discipline and now community social worker, Christine Hooper-Johnson, is the new president of the Hanover Parish Development Committee (PDC) for the next two years. This follows the staging of the bi-...
WESTERN BUREAU Residents of Seaview in Hopewell in Eastern Hanover have taken the aesthetics and sanitation of their community into their own hands, and have constructed a garbage disposal container at the entrance to the community. The unit,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE WERE sombre faces all round, depicting the mood of the many parents, students, teachers, Green Island High School administrators, and Hanoverians in general who turned out to participate in a candlelight vigil in honour of the...
The Hanover Parish Development Committee will be under new leadership come Wednesday, June 28, the date set for its overdue biannual general meeting.Incumbent president of the body, Petra Foster, although eligible for another two-year term in...
WESTERN BUREAU: An audience of more than 200 waited patiently Saturday night, despite a one hour and 10 minutes power outage, to witness the crowning of 19-year-old recording artiste Tricia Cunningham as the 2023 Miss Hanover Festival Queen. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: COPIES OF master maps of the Hanover capital, Lucea, and also of the fast-growing town of Green Island, have been presented to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and the Hanover Police Division with a view to assist them in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WORK ON Hopewell Police Station in Hanover, which started in January 2023, is now about 70 per cent complete and scheduled for completion in another few months, this according to Commissioner of Police, Antony Anderson. The...
Western Bureau: People wondered if it was going to be a repeat of what transpired in the building shared by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) and the Trelawny Parish Court in March 22, when pieces of plaster began falling out of the roof of...
Western Bureau: The fears of the chairman of the board of governors, and administrators of the Hopewell High School, in Hanover, Dalton Hastings, are being realised, which are the potential collapse of a block of classrooms at that institution,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER police and administrators at Bethel Primary School in Hopewell, Hanover have been left puzzled as to how thieves have managed to remove a safe weighing over 600 pounds from the bursar’s office, without anyone hearing or...
