WESTERN BUREAU: AMID OUTRAGE over reports of fraud at financial institutions, including a $3-billion scam at investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), a St James pastor has warned against casting judgement too quickly on the accused...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, minister of state in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in the Office of the Prime Minister, is recommending that media workers should have a pension scheme put in place in order to support them...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORLEN DEERS, a resident of Glendevon in St James, is bracing for a head-on collision with the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) over his worries about the absence of a sidewalk along Felicity Road in the community. It is a...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be pushing for legislation to mandate representatives of state agencies such as the National Works Agency (NWA) to attend the corporation’s monthly sittings, in light of that agency’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FATHER’S House transitional home in St James, which has been recently linked to the scandal-hit Embracing Orphans charity’s executive director, Carl Robanske, is currently still in operation, albeit with scant and inconsistent...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR FRANCINE Phillips-Kelly, the medical officer of health for St James, is urging fresh caution and renewed vigilance in preventing COVID-19 spread and infection, as 15 positive cases of the disease have been confirmed in the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF this year’s 43rd annual staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), the initiative’s chairman, Reverend Samuel McCook, says the event is an avenue for the Church to exercise its influence in combating...
WESTERN BUREAU: REVEREND SAMUEL McCook, the chairman of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), has said that religious leaders are playing a key role in helping the island tackle social ills, including crime and violence. McCook expressed...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO MONTHS after fire gutted her home and destroyed her sewing equipment and goods in Wakefield, Trelawny, 58-year-old Pearly McLean is facing an uncertain future as she has been unable to make her own living since then. While...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CORNWALL Bar Association (CBA) is throwing its support behind statements recently issued by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes questioning the increasing use of the term ‘violence producers’ in reference to persons who are accused by the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says he would have no issue with taking into consideration a call from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn for 30 to 40 year’ imprisonment as the starting point for a life sentence...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has issued a fresh appeal for relatives of criminals to help rid the streets of illegal firearms as the island grapples with a high level of crime. Speaking at Thursday’s commissioning ceremony for 43...
WESTERN BUREAU: Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange says she will be examining whether the beautification plans for the historic Devon House are in keeping with what was approved by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust [JNHT], following backlash...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is issuing a call for justices of the peace (JPs) to work more closely with their local police stations in an effort to curb crime and violence in the communities they serve and throughout the wider...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR PATRICK Prendergast, the campus director at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Western Jamaica Campus, is advocating for more seminars similar to the recently held Sam Sharpe Flames of Freedom Lecture, to emphasise to...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST James Parish Court has set February 1, 2023, as a committal hearing date for two men accused of the October 9 shooting death of 21-year-old Gareth Leslie, for a ruling to transfer their case to the St James Circuit Court for...
WESTERN BUREAU: On December 19, Cornwall College fifth-formers put their gentlemanly stature and social graces on show during the Montego Bay-based boys’ school’s fifth annual staging of its Royal Soirée at the Grand-a-View Restaurant in the Second...
WESTERN BUREAU: SUNSHINY SKIES on Wednesday, December 21, served as a metaphor of the joyful glow in the hearts of the young residents of the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Adelphi, St James, as the Janet Richards Foundation held its annual...
WESTERN BUREAU: HOMER DAVIS, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister – West, says consideration may be given to create a memorial to 200 slaves who were killed during the Lima massacre in Adelphi, St James, which occurred the Christmas...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for an American man who allegedly punched a nurse at the Cornwall Regional Hospital [CRH], ahead of his next court date on January 12, 2023. Presiding parish judge Sasha...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL EMPLOYEES of Leisure for Pleasure Holidays and Tours (LPH) basked in the honour of their company claiming the Top Producing Local Travel Agency Award for 2022 during Sunday’s Palladium Escape Weekend Travel Partners Event...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Gordon Brown walked out of the St James Parish Court a free man on Friday after being found not guilty of obstruction of justice after being accused of hindering the police’s efforts on January 13 to secure a firearm...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos of St James, is issuing a fresh appeal for Jamaicans to stand up against the nation’s criminals and violence producers, following Wednesday’s latest incident in the parish where a mother was murdered...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several documents outstanding from the prosecution’s case file resulted in Thursday’s highly anticipated bail hearing for Rushawn Patterson, the man charged with the murder of 35-year-old social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’...
WESTERN BUREAU: SOMERTON Primary and Infant School, based in Somerton, St James, held a grand appreciation dinner to say farewell and show appreciation to one of its former stalwart teachers, Phyllis Cooke-Sterling, who spent over 38 years of...
