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...
WESTERN BUREAU: GOODS VALUED over $100,000 was presented to the Hanover Infirmary on Thursday, October 13, courtesy of the Hanover Justices of the Peace Association (HJPA). Included in the gift package was a wide assortment of items, which is...
WESTERN BUREAU: MAYOR OF Lucea Sheridan Samuels is fuming over what he claims is the total disregard being shown by tenants to pay over outstanding rental payments to the Hanover Municipal Corporation. According to Samuels, the outstanding amount...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH OCTOBER being observed nationally as Heritage Month, the membership of the Retired Teachers Association (RTA) of Jamaica, Hanover chapter, has decided that they will not be left behind and have begun to play their part, at...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE STAFF of the Hanover Parish Court took to the streets of the capital on Monday to interact with the general public, informing persons about their rights and how to access the court system. The public display started with a...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FIRST traffic signal lighting system in the parish of Hanover, the infrastructure of which was put together during the month of July, was commissioned into service on Thursday, September 22. The traffic lights which are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice minister Delroy Chuck has rapped some members of the island’s lay magistrates for what he described as a lack of humility among them, and an unwillingness to recognise their core role as justices of the peace, to work...
WESTERN BUREAU: CLAIMS ON social media by People’s National Party (PNP) activist and vice-chairman of the PNP’s Eastern Hanover constituency machinery, Craig Oates, that Lionel Myrie should not have been appointed as a justice of the peace (JP) in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fifty-one-year-old Natalie Reid, operator of the Chances Rehabilitation Centre in Hanover, is to pay a fine of $150,000 or spend one month in prison at hard labour for operating a nursing home without the requisite licences. Reid,...
