WESTERN BUREAU: A bench warrant was issued for the investigating officer in the case against three former Sangster International Airport employees facing drug-smuggling charges, after the cop failed to show up for the matter in the St James Parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: Anniona Jones, the principal of Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann, is recommending that students pursue skills training as a valid employment and income-earning opportunity. Addressing the Muschett High School’s fifth...
WESTERN BUREAU: The court has ordered for checks to be made into the identification parade process in the case of an accused held in relation to a deadly shooting in Norwood, St James on November 16, 2022. Presiding parish judge Sasha-Marie Ashley...
WESTERN BUREAU: Grade-seven students of Muschett High School in Wakefield, Trelawny, were given a chance to experience fine dining against an elegant backdrop on Tuesday when they were hosted at a luncheon at the scenic Day O Plantation in Montego...
WESTERN BUREAU: Linvern Wright, the president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS), is urging the Government to quickly meet with the nation’s teachers with a view of arriving at an amicable resolution to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister West, wants Jamaica to take advantage of events such as the annual Courts Jamaica-sponsored MoBay City Run to effectively market the country as a health tourism...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sophia McIntosh, coordinator of the University of Technology’s (UTech) western Jamaica campus, wants more of the nation’s youth to seek higher education as at present, only 30 per cent of Jamaica’s population is enrolled at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the deadline for the completion of restoration work on the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) fast approaching, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is hoping to see patients back inside the 400-bed hospital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says that when the ongoing restoration work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James is completed, the Type A health facility will...
WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Andrea Thomas on Tuesday denied bail for Rushawn Patterson, the man charged with the murder of Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, despite his attorney raising health and safety concerns as the prosecution painted him as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica-based family psychologist Dr Beverly Scott wants social workers who are trained in handling mentally ill patients to be assigned to community development committees (CDC), so that they can assist the relatives of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students at the Manning’s School in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, now have an improved opportunity to develop their skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) following last Friday’s official...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James’ longstanding rat infestation problem has resurfaced, and according to Councillor Michael Troupe, the rodents have seemingly relocated from downtown Montego Bay to his Granville Division. Troupe made the statement while...
WESTERN BUREAU: While it remains unclear as to whether there will be fresh wage negotiations between the Jamaica Teachers’ Association [JTA] and the Ministry of Finance, Education Minister Fayval Williams appears to be taking a ‘wait-and-see’...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry Thomas, councillor of the Mt Salem division in the St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC], is calling on the island’s municipal corporations to advocate more strongly for fixed local government elections, if they hope to gain...
WESTERN BUREAU: GREGORY ROBERTS, the man accused of the 2017 murder of 15-year-old Green Pond High School student Shineka Gray, will have to wait for another six months for his case to proceed to trial. He has been in custody for the past six years...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man accused of killing social media personality Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, will have to wait until March 21 to know if his bail hearing will be addressed by the court. When Patterson appear in the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE cost of renovating the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s [CRH] in Montego Bay now at a whopping $14.1 billion, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is still insisting that renovating, instead of following the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President-elect Leighton Johnson, who on Monday visited Mount Alvernia High School in St James where teachers were staging a sit-in to register their dissatisfaction with the proposed compensation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Security guard Rohan Rose, one of two men charged in connection with the death of popular media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is expected to get a clearer picture of the legal challenges awaiting him following...
WESTERN BUREAU: The local Islamic community has joined relatives and residents of a number of St James communities in distancing themselves from Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal, whose sentencing was again postponed in New York on Monday after he was...
WESTERN BUREAU: LATOYA MINNETT-Hall, public education and special projects manager in the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA), is lamenting how children are being sexualised to the point that they are no longer allowed to enjoy their formative...
WESTERN BUREAU: DARIEN HENRY, principal of the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) in St James, is strongly recommending that Jamaica’s education system should get proactive in arresting the widening wave of pornography addiction among the nation’...
