WESTERN BUREAU: Sancia Bennett Templer, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, says the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) will launch several initiatives in 2025 to streamline the authority’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: British national Rachael Quayle, who was allegedly caught with cocaine valued at J$45 million stashed in assorted food items at the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay on August 21, is to stand trial in the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Unhappy with the poor state of their roads, residents in several St James communities brought traffic to a standstill on Tuesday morning, mounting blockades to draw attention to their plight. Police and fire personnel were kept busy...
WESTERN BUREAU: District Officer O’Neil Kerr, the Jamaica Fire Brigade’s (JFB) fire investigator for St James, wants stricter fire-safety measures to be put in place at the Old Shoe Market in downtown Montego Bay, which has experienced three fires...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors in the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) are calling for greater enforcement from the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) in punishing individuals who illegally dump in their divisions, particularly in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The ongoing trial of the 16 members of the controversial Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group, who are charged with breaching the Child Care and Protection Act and the Education Act, was adjourned to November 22 due to...
WESTERN BUREAU: With a KFC outlet among 16 food establishments in Montego Bay shuttered by the authorities on Monday, Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St James, has warned operators who fail to renew their licences that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Dalton Reid, who represents Constable Juliana Clevon, one of three police officers charged in connection with the death of Mario Deane, has welcomed the decision to transfer the trial to Westmoreland. Deane, 31,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mercia Frasier, the mother of Mario Deane, is pleased with Thursday’s order from the St James Circuit Court that the case against three police officers in relation to her son’s death in 2014 should be transferred to another parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shamoya Green, the St James woman charged with the December 2023 murder of her five-month-old infant daughter, who was thrown from the roof of a three-storey building, was ordered to get an updated fitness-to-plea report when she...
WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Bertram Morrison expressed his outrage on Monday over the decade-long delay in the trial of three police officers charged in connection with the 2014 death of Mario Deane, with ongoing issues with juror summonses...
WESTERN BUREAU: The case against Shamoya Green, the St James woman who reportedly threw her infant daughter off the roof of their home in Lilliput, St James, causing her death, is scheduled to go before the St James Circuit Court on November 13....
WESTERN BUREAU: BRITISH NATIONAL Rachael Quayle, who was arrested on August 21 after she was allegedly caught trying to smuggle cocaine valued at $45 million inside assorted food items, had her bail extended to November 20 when she appeared in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Except for bouts of showers throughout Tuesday, it was almost a normal day in St James as Tropical Storm Rafael passed the island. Several tourists were out on the popular Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in downtown Montego Bay, seemingly...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica braced for Tropical Storm Rafael, which was expected to impact the island early this morning, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) said its hospitals are all in emergency mode, with services scaled back until...
WESTERN BUREAU: Roland Haye, the western regional coordinator for the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), has asked disaster management entities in St James to be on standby today, should there be a need to evacuate...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica braces for a tropical storm that is expected to affect the island come Monday evening, Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is expressing confidence that St James is prepared to deal with the potential impact of the adverse...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two British women charged for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the island were offered bail in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday. Teraiya Stapleton and Genevieve Sanoussi, both 21-year-old university students, reportedly had...
WESTERN BUREAU: The three police officers, who were arrested and charged in connection with the 2014 beating death of St James resident Mario Deane, are slated to appear in the St James Circuit Court on November 11 to answer to the charges against...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Community Home for Girls, located in Irwin, St James, received a significant boost on Friday with a $1-million donation from S Hotel to initiate the construction of a transitional facility to support wards as they...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two years after Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend was murdered, Joy Smith is patiently waiting for the day that she gets justice for her daughter. “It is hard to lose a child who you talked to two days before and then you hear that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Adelphi and surrounding communities in St James are now heaping praise on the Government for the reopening of the Adelphi Health Centre, which will provide convenient healthcare and a wide range of medical services to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, the member of parliament for St James East Central, has announced an ambitious $500-million road- rehabilitation project for his constituency, which should result in several communities having much...
WESTERN BUREAU: The case against Rushawn Patterson, the Hanover man charged with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, has been rescheduled to October 24 after it was unexpectedly brought up in the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says plans are in place to enhance healthcare services in St James, as, in addition to 11 local health centres that have been fully upgraded since 2019, another 11 are now being renovated....
