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Published:Friday | October 11, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is calling for the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) to carry out research on why Jamaica’s roads are deteriorating at such a rapid pace and whether utilising alternative construction methods would...

Published:Friday | October 11, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a recent incident in which a policeman was seriously injured in a hit-and run incident, Superintendent Eron Samuels, the police commander for St James, says law enforcement remains resolute in their bid to rein in violence-...

Published:Friday | October 11, 2024 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Tennessee-based breast cancer specialist, Dr Sonya Reid, says diet and lifestyle choices play a key role in breast cancer care, albeit 90 per cent of breast cancer cases do not have a clear cause for their development. Speaking...

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says that, despite the concerns about the easy access to e-cigarettes and the absence of legislation to address tobacco use, Jamaica is still not yet in a position to institute a...

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2024 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Tara Tyme, the pastor of St Paul’s United Church in Montego Bay, St James, is urging Jamaica’s judges and other legal representatives to apply justice in practical ways instead of only fulfilling the letter of the law. Tyme...

Published:Monday | October 7, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) President Michael Hemmings is making a fresh call for a forensic laboratory to be set up in western Jamaica to process ballistics reports and other forensic matters at a faster pace than currently...

Published:Monday | October 7, 2024 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has thrown his voice into the debate around the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) recent suggestion of merging Jamaica’s Emancipation and Independence celebrations into one extended holiday...

Published:Friday | October 4, 2024 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Janine Morris, consultant psychiatrist at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, believes that a fear of reduced sexual appeal is preventing some women from getting early screening for breast cancer. Addressing...

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2024 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Consultant surgeon Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is alarmed at the rise in the number of breast cancer diagnoses since 2021, amid an increase in the number of young women...

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James woman facing a murder charge in relation to the death of her infant daughter is to have a hearing to determine if she is fit to stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on November 5. Shamoya Green, who is accused of...

Published:Monday | September 30, 2024 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The much-anticipated committal hearing for Shamoya Green, the St James woman facing a murder charge for allegedly throwing her baby daughter off a rooftop to her death last December, will proceed on September 30 without an assessor...

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Denese Adams, the vendor who was caught in a viral video urinating into a container and then pouring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, made her first appearance in the St James Parish Court...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man charged with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is booked to return to the St James Circuit Court on October 18 when two outstanding documents will be...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is not resisting calls for its members to wear body-worn cameras for the sake of accountability but is insisting that the implementation must be done in...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Donovan Campbell, the director of The University of the West Indies’ [UWI] Western Jamaica Campus, believes that the Jamaican society’s expectations of boys and young men must change in order to help them see education as...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), in St James, says it will be staging several activities in the lead-up to its 50th anniversary celebration on September 29, 2025. The college’s anniversary celebration, which is being held under...

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jill Stewart MoBay City Run charity organisation, formerly the ‘MoBay City Run,’ yesterday, handed out $8 million in scholarship funds to students from several schools in western Jamaica, the first major scholarship donation...

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Keron Watson, the man who allegedly used social media to lure a woman into committing sexual acts for money in 2017, was again denied bail when he appeared in the St James Circuit Court on Tuesday, despite pleas from his lawyer....

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Ricardo Bennett, the principal of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), St James, wants the Government to provide financial assistance to tertiary-level students who want to become teachers. Speaking to journalists following...

Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 6:25 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Eight years after Janice Hines was shot and injured when police officers fired on a taxi she was in during a high-speed chase in St James, her lawyer is accusing the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) of ignoring their attempts to...

Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police Linroy Edwards, operations officer for the St James Police Division, has reported that a firearm that was taken from Joseph McKenzie, one of St James’ most wanted men who was captured last month, has...

Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St James, says the parish’s Aedes index, which measures the spread of mosquito breeding, has seen a two per cent decline since June, and now stands at 11 per cent. In...

Published:Friday | September 13, 2024 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: A vendor filmed urinating in a container and then transferring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, has been slapped with six charges. Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St...

Published:Thursday | September 12, 2024 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who plead guilty to trying to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James, is to be sentenced on September 18. Crawford, a 44-...

Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Collel Blake, the parish manager for the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) St James parish office, believes that Jamaican young people should be given more avenues to access information on their culture, including...

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