WESTERN BUREAU: Ashanta Ferguson, the British woman who was arrested last November after she was caught trying to smuggle four and a half pounds of cocaine onto an outgoing flight to England, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. Ferguson was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Loran Bartley, a British national who was arrested in connection with attempts to smuggle cocaine on to a flight destined for England on May 6, has been sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment by the St James Parish Court. Bartley, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following Wednesday night’s double murder in Bogue Village, which took place just over 24 hours after a state of emergency (SOE) was declared in St. James, National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang is giving assurance that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATION MINISTER Fayval Williams says her ministry will be partnering with the Ministry of Justice to train 30,000 students in restorative justice practices during the 2023-24 financial year in the hope that it will reduce...
WESTERN BUREAU: JASON ROSE, the St James pastor accused of raping a teenage girl in 2021, will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on November 27, along with his wife and the mother of the complainant. Rose, his wife Kehmi Rose, and the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Maxim Marquez, the vice-president and regional director of agencies at the Pan American Life Insurance Group, has joined the illustrious list of persons who have been inducted into the Caribbean Association of Insurance and...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett is projecting that Jamaica could earn US$4.5 billion (J$696 trillion) in tourism revenue for 2023, a significant increase over the US$3.64 billion earned in 2019, the year before the onset of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: YOUTH ADVOCATE Christina Howell, who is also an attorney-at-law, is urging Jamaicans to be proactive in seeking information about the constitutional reform process, instead of expecting details of the process to be delivered to them...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LONGSTANDING trial of four businessmen, who are accused of being major players in a drug-smuggling and money-laundering scheme between Jamaica and the United States, was deferred to July 7 in the St James Parish Court yesterday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at yesterday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation expressed alarm at the spate of murders that have rocked the parish in recent weeks, including three double murders over the past two weeks. Michael...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says that if there is no favourable response to the organisation’s concerns about educators’ compensation negotiations, it will indicate that the Government...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three former Sangster International Airport employees who are now facing drug smuggling charges will know their fate this Thursday, pending a full assessment of the case by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)....
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore is urging parents to be more proactive in raising and disciplining their children and to give more support to the nation’s educators. Moore made the call on Sunday while addressing the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Charles ‘Ras Negus’ Largie, the high-profile Montego Bay-based Rastafarian who was recently arrested by the St James police after he was found with two pounds of ganja which he claimed was for sacramental purposes, will know whether...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROHAN ROSE, the security guard charged with misprision of a felony about the 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, has been committed to stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on September 21. The 47...
WESTERN BUREAU: CHAD AND Sheena Headley, the St James couple who were arrested last year June after cocaine valued at $85 million was allegedly found at their home, were committed to stand trial in the St James Parish Court on June 9, following...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHADOW MINISTER of Transport and Works Mikael Phillips has accused the Government of turning a blind eye to problems affecting the island’s transport sector, including recent strikes by bus operators and other employees of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Psychologist Dr Orlean Brown-Earle believes that more education is needed for parents of autistic children to accept their children’s developmental challenges and to move towards moulding them into independent adults. “Dealing with...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANTOINETTE HAUGHTON-CARDENAS, who at one time was the most popular talk show host in Jamaica and formerly hosted RJR’s Hotline call-in programme for 10 years, has died at the age of 68. According to reports, Haughton-Cardenas, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROHAN CUMMINGS, the western Jamaica businessman, who was reportedly held with US$850,000 (J$130,008,520) worth of cocaine inside a bus he was driving in March 2022, is expected to give testimony in his own defence when he returns to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Youth advocate Sujae Boswell, a member of the Constitutional Reform Committee, which is seeking to pave the way for Jamaica to become a republic, says that special emphasis must be placed on getting young people more involved in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte says that while the Government is examining the the possibility of making Jamaica a republic, care is being taken to avoid implementing sudden changes that will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Amoi Leon-Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King, has lost her battle in the Supreme Court to quash an order from the St James Parish Court that she should grant sleuths probing her son’s January 13, 2022 murder access to...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBERS OF the Rastafari and Grassroots Ganja Association (RAGGA) are accusing the State of not respecting their sacramental rights to possess ganja, following the recent arrest and charge of a prominent member of the group for...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROHAN ROSE, the security guard who is charged with misprision of felony in the murder of social media personality Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, will know on May 5 when he will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court. Rose, 47, of a...
