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...
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...
