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Published:Tuesday | November 7, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER and People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding is backing calls for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith to resign from her post, following Jamaica’s failure to cast a vote on a humanitarian...

Published:Monday | November 6, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Welness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced that, come February 2024, the ministry will sign a contract with a business-process outsourcing (BPO) company to create a telephone network for patients in Jamaica’s...

Published:Monday | November 6, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: JUST DAYS after Jamaica was rocked by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake last Monday, Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr used the impact of the incident to emphasise the Caribbean region’s need to strengthen its member...

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH MINISTER Dr Christopher Tufton has clapped back at criticisms of the Government’s handling of Jamaica’s healthcare system. He declared that those who disparage the efforts of the Holness administration to revamp the health...

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: DENSIL WILLIAMS, principal of The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, is recommending that measures be taken to maintain the Caribbean region’s sustainable economic growth and improve social security systems for the...

Published:Friday | November 3, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that his ministry will soon compile and release a full set of recommendations geared at benefiting employees of the Canadian farm work programme, following his recent fact-...

Published:Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding has criticised House Speaker Juliet Holness for not immediately sharing the attorney general’s opinion on the tabling in Parliament of reports from her department and the Integrity Commission....

Published:Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER and People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has issued a call for Jamaica’s healthcare system to receive a complete overhaul in order to tackle recurring issues such as limited bed spaces in hospitals...

Published:Monday | October 30, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: INDUSTRY, INVESTMENT and Commerce Minister Senator Aubyn Hill says micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) must seek to build their wealth by forging partnerships with overseas markets and clients instead of relying only on the...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING REPORTS that a female grade nine student of a St Elizabeth-based high school was raped by an older student at the institution earlier this week, Dr Morais Guy is questioning whether the proper procedure was initially...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT MINISTER Daryl Vaz has indicated that plans are progressing for the development of several air transport facilities across Jamaica, including the Negril Aerodrome in Westmoreland and the Ian Fleming International Airport...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE Sangster International Airport expected to welcome a record five million visitors this year by December, Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says he is satisfied with the ongoing efforts to expand the Montego Bay-based facility to...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: DR MORAIS Guy, the opposition spokesman on health, is recommending that the Ministry of Health and Wellness hold quarterly briefings to keep the public updated on the progression of restoration work at the St James-based Cornwall...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding is urging the Government to treat the replacement of the collapsed Troy bridge in Trelawny Southern as an emergency situation. Golding made the call as residents in the parishes of Trelawny and...

Published:Wednesday | October 25, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is urging the church community to ensure that it plays its part in raising young people to be upstanding citizens, even as he vows that the authorities will continue to work with the Church...

Published:Wednesday | October 25, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: HEATED WORDS were exchanged on Friday as the lawyer for Indra Waite, the sole defendant now on trial for allegedly conspiring to smuggle more than 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight bound for Canada in 2021, called the...

Published:Tuesday | October 24, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Charles ‘Ras Negus’ Largie, the Rastafarian whose arrest for possessing two pounds of ganja triggered a silent protest by other Rastafarians outside the St James Parish Court in April, is booked to return to court for his trial’s...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) has set a December deadline to submit to the police a crime study commissioned in an effort to identify the origin of crime and arrest its ongoing societal spread. Speaking...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: A St Elizabeth man who was arrested in September 2021, after more than five kilogrammes of cocaine was allegedly found in his vehicle in Bogue Village, Montego Bay, is to return to the St James Parish Court on November 13 for the...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE FAMILY of 61-year-old St James resident Joyce Fearon is desperate for any information that might lead to her whereabouts, after she went missing on National Heroes Day, while on a church trip in Christiana, Manchester. Fearon, a...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: When Kenroy Wright, Desrick Myers, and Marcel Binns cooperated to save two children from being swept away by flood waters in Tucker, Irwin, St James on June 6, none of them imagined that they would be publicly honoured for simply...

Published:Friday | October 20, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: AMID EFFORTS by the education ministry to abolish the streaming of students into secondary schools, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Leighton Johnson has issued a call for a full review of how placement happens before...

Published:Friday | October 20, 2023 | 4:08 PMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY’S Chinese community has stepped forward to support the Kiwanis Club of Providence – Montego Bay’s upcoming 14th annual Breast Cancer Awareness 5K Run/Walk/Wheelchair event with $2.55 million that was presented to the...

Published:Thursday | October 19, 2023 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: COUNCILLOR MICHAEL Troupe, the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) minority leader and the councillor for the Granville Division, is rubbishing calls for him to apologise on behalf of the People’s National Party (PNP)...

Published:Thursday | October 19, 2023 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES Public Health Inspector Sherika Lewis wants more effort done to ensure all communities in the parish have access to piped water, in order to reduce the likelihood of households storing water in containers that may breed...

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