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,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NUMBER of justices of the peace (JPs) in the parish of Hanover has increased by 45, bringing the total number in the parish to approximately 180. The 45 new JPs, 17 males and 28 females, were commissioned into service on...
WESTERN BUREAU: While many volunteers turned out last Saturday to help clean up the Lucea Fisherman’s Beach in Hanover, Petra Vernon-Foster, president of the Parish Development Committee (PDC), said much more could have been done had they gotten...
WESTERN BUREAU: The resort town of Negril, which is now shared by the Hanover and Westmoreland municipal corporations, could soon be controlling its own destiny as critical stakeholders in the town are now pushing to gain autonomy by being declared...
WESTERN BUREAU: RICHARD WALLACE, president of the Negril Chamber of Commerce, is concerned about the safety of tourism workers amid an increase in criminal activity in the resort town. He says that Negril’s crime scourge is not directed at tourists...
WESTERN BUREAU: Citing what he deemed to be the poor performance of the National Works Agency (NWA) in Hanover, Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels on Thursday said that he wants the state agency to be kicked out of the parish and its roles,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, says proper maintenance of the Riley River in the short term and desilting at a later date will be key to addressing a recurrent...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SANDY Bay Health Centre in Hanover has a serious termite infestation problem and the members of staff at the much-used medical facility are fearful that unless the situation is addressed urgently, the building may collapse. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover Custos Dr David Stair is hopping mad about the dilapidated state of several roads in the western parish, and is calling on the authorities to take immediate steps to rectify a situation he has described as atrocious and...
WESTERN BUREAU: INCREASING INCIDENTS of land capturing and squatting, which have led to a number of unsightly developments in eastern Hanover, are threatening to disrupt the orderly development of the parish, an issue that is a cause for concern...
WESTERN BUREAU: Calls for a fire station to be established in Hopewell, Hanover, are again ringing out following a recent home fire in which a retired assistant superintendent of police perished. Eighty-nine-year-old Elana Nisbett, who lived alone...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bamboo blocking the flow of the Riley River at the eastern entrance to Lucea has again resulted in the flooding of Hanover’s seaside capital. The material, which is gathering in the vicinity of the Riley Bridge, created havoc on...
WESTERN BUREAU: MAYOR OF Lucea and chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), Sheridan Samuels, says that a similar statue of the likeness of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante, which was unveiled on the grounds of the Hanover...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described the ongoing work to clean up the Dyke Road in St Catherine under the ‘Clean Jamaica’ campaign as the test run for a national clean-up programme, details of which are still to be finalised...
