WESTERN BUREAU: The Association of Christian Communicators and Media (ACCM) says that calls for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to become Jamaica’s final court of appeal should be reconsidered, due to concerns over that court’s potential to...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Bogue Heights in St James are voicing disgruntlement at the issue of garbage and bulky waste material being dumped along the roadway near their community, which they say they have sought to get addressed without success...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court has discontinued the case against former St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) Councillor David Brown, who was accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend during a confrontation in May 2023, following a no-...
WESTERN BUREAU: ON THE heels of two St James councillors being unable to take their appointed seats for affirming instead of swearing their oaths, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the president of the National Religious Liberty Association, has warned against...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Municipal Corporation [StJMC] has given an assurance that two Jamaica Labour Party [JLP] councillors who were unable to take their seats in the corporation’s monthly meeting yesterday, because of affirming rather than...
WESTERN BUREAU: NEWLY MINTED Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is urging Jamaicans to see the pursuit of education as a social responsibility while touting tertiary education as the means by which the nation’s level of productivity and growth will...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY'S annual MoBay City Run has been officially renamed the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run, in honour of the late wife of Sandals Resorts International’s executive chairman, Adam Stewart, who was a major contributor to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS) is voicing concern that there is no clarity about the Government confirming the definition of terms within the European Union/Africa Caribbean Pacific (EU/ACP) Partnership Agreement...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HIGHLY anticipated trial of 17 members of the controversial Qahal Yahweh religious group, who are charged with several counts of breaches of the Child Care and Protection Act, has been put off until April 8, when they are...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CASE against former St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) councillor David Brown, who is accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend during a confrontation in May 2023, has been pushed back for hearing on March 14, following his...
WESTERN BUREAU: LOCAL GOVERNMENT Minister Desmond McKenzie has vowed that an educational campaign will be launched in the next two weeks to help educate Jamaicans on the roles and functions of municipal councillors, as well as to educate...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court is to be advised by today whether the ex-girlfriend of former St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) councillor David Brown, who allegedly attacked her during a confrontation in May 2023, is interested in...
WESTERN BUREAU: IN THE wake of the recent loss of a student via suicide, the St James-based Montego Bay High School for Girls is bolstering its mental wellness and social development efforts for its students and teachers, including plans to receive...
WESTERN BUREAU: LOCAL GOVERNMENT Minister Desmond McKenzie is making a fresh appeal for Jamaicans to take personal responsibility for proper disposal of their garbage. At the same time, he announced that his ministry will soon spearhead a national...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING TUESDAY’S latest act of school-centred violence at Black River High School in St Elizabeth in which a group of men allegedly flung stones while storming the institution, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James man whose 2007 cocaine case was previously adjourned (with no future resumption date) had his case brought back before the St James Parish Court, where he was offered bail in the sum of $400,000. Mickey Miller, who is of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Gleaner’s Janet Silvera has been formally inducted into membership in the 39-year-old Jamaica chapter of the prestigious Chaîne des Rôtisseurs international association of gastronomy, following an elegantly formal ceremony in...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRAVIS TUMMINGS, the man charged with the November 2023 murders of two Chetwood Memorial Primary School students and a man in Salt Spring, St James, is to have a committal hearing in the St James Parish Court on March 7. Tummings, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: LARREN PEART, the chief executive officer of research specialist company Bluedot Insights, is warning that students who are ignored and discharged from school for perceived ‘bad’ behaviour will be influenced by criminal elements,...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES’ SENIOR Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis is estimating that the long-awaited rebuilding of the Granville Police Station, which was destroyed by fire in May 2021, may be complete and ready to serve the people of...
WESTERN BUREAU: NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang has declared that investment in research must be treated as an essential part of Jamaica’s education sector, in order for the country to become a fully developed nation-state and halt the...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESMOND SMITH, the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) candidate for the Lorrimers division in Trelawny Southern, has sought to defend himself following reports that residents of Wait-A-Bit accused him of disrespecting them, as he is...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONDAY’S INCLEMENT weather and a lengthy driving distance from Kingston were not enough to stop 32-year-old Lenroy Neil from travelling all the way to his birthplace in Troy, Trelawny, to show his support for Collen Gager, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the price tag for the rehabilitation work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) now set at $21.4 billion, up from its last estimate of $14.6 billion, there is no certainty on whether the cost will remain the same or increase...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Freeman’s Hall, Trelawny, are accusing their political representatives of abandoning them for 50 years, citing the degradation of their community’s roadways and the lack of an adequate water supply, street lights, and...
