WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE Christmas holiday weekend draws nearer, vending plans of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and other festivities slated to take place in the parish are now being unveiled. Mayor of Lucea and Chairman of the HMC,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has noted that more young women are stepping up to fill the void being left by older farmers even while their young male counterparts continue to express little interest in the sector. Charles...
WESTERN BUREAU: TEN OF the 106 new Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) graduates from intake No. 24 have been placed in Hanover. However, as much as they are appreciated, their arrival has created additional problems for supervisors in that parish. With...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Health Department (HHD) has its hands full in trying to contain the number of unlicensed nursing homes and rehabilitation centres in the parish, as notices served by the health department on existing ones are being...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Western Parks and Markets (WPM) now promising to clear up the backlog of garbage existing in the parish of Hanover, the Hanover Health Department (HHD) has simultaneously...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hopewell, Hanover, have been left fuming after mounds of tree trimmings and uncollected garbage were left at the Old Steamer Beach after a clean-up exercise, with unanswered questions about exactly who was behind the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Aldwayne Beckford, Ministry of Health parish manager at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Hanover says the situation of a pile-up of unwashed linen at the facility has been addressed, and arrangements are now in place to prevent...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Old Steamer Beach in Hopewell, Hanover, is to be developed this time by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), some twenty years after similar plans were put forward by the Ministry of Local Government in 2002. Dr Carey Wallace,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Courtney Daye has expressed concern about the number of murder cases down for trial in the Michaelmas sitting of the Hanover Circuit Court, noting that the history of that parish was a very peaceful one. In addressing an...
WESTERN BUREAU: MUNICIPAL POLICE personnel attached to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have hit back at criticisms by Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels of “doing nothing”, arguing that they “have been given basket to carry water”. Samuels, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: BALFOUR HUTCHINSON, the transport operator who was charged in May in relation to two guns that went missing from a villa at the Tryall Club, Hotel and Villas in Sandy Bay, Hanover, has been freed of all charges. Hutchinson, who has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hanover have been urged to exercise extra caution in conducting business throughout the parish during the upcoming holiday period even as the police gave the assurance that their numbers would be increased to man the...
WESTERN BUREAU: MAYOR OF Lucea and Chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), Sheridan Samuels, has come out in support of the call from his political comrades for Minister of Health and Wellness Christopher Tufton to step down or be...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) Chairman Sheridan Samuels says the cadre of municipal police officers attached to the local authority is not serving its intended purpose in the parish. While he was delivering the chairman’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: A SITE visit by Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) representatives to the Old Steamer Beach in Hopewell, Hanover, has been met with scepticism by community members and municipal officials. TEF project manager Nalford Hyde, along with...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE OVER 1,000 residents who live in the districts of Woodsville, Flower Hill and Hillsbrook, in eastern Hanover, are now at their wits’ end in getting assistance to repair or replace the damaged Woodsville Bridge that they use...
WESTERN BUREAU: EXCITEMENT REIGNED among students and teachers at Hopewell High School in Hanover on Thursday, as an innovative programme aimed at teaching all the students of that institution the finer points of formal dining kicked off with the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A new advocacy group in Hopewell, Hanover, raised several concerns about the health centre in the community as they press for dialogue with health officials and political leaders in the parish to have the issues addressed. Members...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty-nine-year-old British national Dewi Games, who is facing rape charges in Hanover, was offered bail when he appeared in the Sandy Bay Court on Wednesday. Games, who appeared before Senior Parish Court Judge Natisha Fairclough-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Land clearance for the building of a church in Orchard Gardens in Hopewell, Hanover, has put more than 1,100 students and teachers at Hopewell High School literally on edge as a dangerous precipice has been created between the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A NUMBER of schools, workplaces, children’s homes, the parish infirmary and communities are to be visited by personnel from the Jamaica Fire Brigade’s (JFB) Hanover Division as part of its Fire Safety Awareness Week exercises....
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid extensive flooding, land slippages, and the resulting inconveniences due to continuous rain in Hanover, Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels says that the only way to avoid flooding in the rural town is to dredge or desilt the harbour...
The Chelsea Bridge to Richmond road way in western Hanover, which was recently fixed and then damaged by heavy bouts of rainfall in that area, is now being assessed for further repairs and completion of the original contract. According to member of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have made a request for no less than three of the 50 new garbage trucks that have been ordered for the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to be sent to service...
WESTERN BUREAU: COUNCILLORS IN the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) celebrated news that a Burger King restaurant would be opened in the bus terminus in the parish capital, Lucea, hailing it as their latest project of pride. “That will be...
