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Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Circuit Court has set January 19, 2024 as the next hearing date for the trial of Jason Rose, the St James-based pastor accused of raping a teenage girl in 2021, and his two co-defendants, in order for the authorities to...

Published:Tuesday | November 28, 2023 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: “HE ASKED for water to wash off his hands ... . Blood was on his hands.” That was the chilling testimony a civilian witness gave to the St James Circuit Court on Monday regarding Gregory Roberts, who is on trial for the 2017 murder...

Published:Monday | November 27, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Circuit Court is expected to hear testimony on March 15, 2024 as to whether Shemoy Brown, the man who is accused of beheading his mother at their Retirement, St James home in October last year, is fit to plead guilty to...

Published:Monday | November 27, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: A man who pleaded guilty to smashing a homeless man’s skull has complained to the court that he is being denied food and medical care despite several requests. The man, Rushawn Bulgin, made the declaration during an appearance...

Published:Monday | November 27, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRIAL of Gregory Roberts, the sole remaining defendant in the 2017 murder of 15-year-old Green Pond High School student Shineka Gray, is slated to continue in the St James Circuit Court today, after having started on Thursday....

Published:Saturday | November 25, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER of Police Clifford Chambers, the commanding officer for the Area One police division, is making a fresh appeal for all stakeholders, particularly parents, to join hands with the police in preventing young...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: JULIET CUTHBERT-Flynn, minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, announced that 25 police stations across Jamaica will be targeted for renovation work valued at $500 million during the upcoming 2024-25 fiscal year....

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The 16-year-old B.B. Coke High School student who is accused of savagely beating a younger fellow student unconscious for stepping on his shoes, is booked to make his next appearance in the St Elizabeth Parish Court on January 11,...

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THREE YEARS after being booted from the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) for missing three consecutive meetings without giving prior notice, Sylvan ‘Father Reid’ Reid, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) candidate-caretaker...

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: RECORDING ARTISTE and promoter Nutchell Millings, better known by his stage name ‘Grabba Musiq’, considers himself having taken upward steps from a poverty-led upbringing in the rural district of Perth Town, Trelawny, to performing...

Published:Monday | November 20, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE TOURISM Product Development Company (TPDCo) relaunched its flagship Team Jamaica Training Programme last Thursday at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James, as a major step forward to draw potential tourism...

Published:Saturday | November 18, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: St James was mostly overcast but otherwise calm on Friday, with stakeholders adopting a wait-and-see approach while being prepared to act in case of any emergency as an unstable weather system affected the island. Montego Bay Mayor...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:12 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA HOTEL and Tourist Association [JHTA] President Robin Russell is suggesting that programmes like the Tourism Product Development Company’s [TPDCo] Team Jamaica Training Programme should be used to seek potential hospitality...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Perth Town in Trelawny are upset with the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) after enduring months of recurring lengthy power outages, fires on electrical lines during rainy weather, and unsatisfactory responses from...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] is enacting plans to return its signature Christmas tree back to Montego Bay’s Sam Sharpe Square in time for next month’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and concert, after having...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging Jamaicans to adopt a modernised outlook on growing and building Jamaica’s economy, including by way of emphasising workers’ levels of productivity, in order to adequately address and sustain...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The 13 members of the Qahal Yahweh religious group who were arrested following a police raid at their Montego Bay compound on June 30 this year may be slapped with more charges when they next appear in the St James Parish Court on...

Published:Saturday | November 11, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says greater efforts must be made to stop the glorification of Jamaica’s gun culture and punish perpetrators of gun-related crimes. Holness made the declaration on Thursday while visiting the Chetwood...

Published:Saturday | November 11, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin is calling on the business community and the wider citizenry to unite against crime and violence in the northwestern parish, which is now blanketted under a state of emergency. Pitkin made the...

Published:Saturday | November 11, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRIAL of Indra Waite, who allegedly conspired to smuggle over 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight bound for Canada in 2021, has been rescheduled for continuation in the St James Parish Court on December 5 due to the...

Published:Saturday | November 11, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: RONALDO RICKETTS, the man accused of killing several homeless people in Montego Bay between July and August this year, is to be brought back to the St James Parish Court on December 5 as his case file is still incomplete. Presiding...

Published:Friday | November 10, 2023 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness is vowing that harsher penalties are on the horizon for perpetrators of violent crimes and those who shelter them or otherwise remain silent about their misdeeds. Holness made the pledge on Thursday...

Published:Friday | November 10, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding is voicing fresh concerns that mandatory minimum sentences for murder and firearms offences could result in an overburdening of Jamaica’s prison system, which has previously been criticised for its...

Published:Thursday | November 9, 2023 | 12:35 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING THE Government’s latest declaration of a state of public emergency (SOE) for St James, after Monday evening’s gun-slaying of two children in the parish, Opposition Leader Mark Golding is adamant that what is needed to...

Published:Wednesday | November 8, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER and People’s National Party [PNP] President Mark Golding is accusing the media of not giving enough attention to Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ failure to have his 2021 and 2022 statutory declarations publicised....

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