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Published:Tuesday | March 17, 2020 | 12:23 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay residents have been urged to be more proactive in managing mosquito-control activities in order to prevent a potential collision of dengue fever with the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far recorded 12 confirmed cases. “...

Published:Monday | March 16, 2020 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The case against England McCrane, the woman who allegedly conned residents of western Jamaica out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while posing as a medical doctor, has again been deferred by the St James Parish Court until May...

Published:Monday | March 16, 2020 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has revealed that the court case in which it was embroiled with gay-rights lobby Montego Bay Pride, after the corporation refused to allow the group to use the Montego Bay Cultural Centre...

Published:Saturday | March 14, 2020 | 12:00 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says that the community spread of COVID-19 was expected because of the difficulty of tracking people who have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, even as he insists that there is...

Published:Thursday | March 12, 2020 | 12:18 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Rayharna WrighT, acting director of employment and career services in the HEART/National Service Training Agency Trust (HEART/NSTA), says as part of its COVID-19 protocol, the entity will be seeking to reduce face-to-face...

Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2020 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Sunday’s staging of the Montego Bay Orchid Club’s 29th annual orchid show and sale saw a first-time attendee reaping the reward of his natural green thumb as an orchid plant he found growing in the wild won three awards out of the...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2020 | 12:13 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Garnet Edmonson, regional operations manager for the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), says that teaching children about proper garbage-disposal practices is part of how Jamaicans can take personal responsibility...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2020 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Tanique Bailey-Small, medical officer of health for St James, is dismissing reports circulating on social media that cases of COVID-19 are in Jamaica and being covered up, even as she assured that there were no suspected cases...

Published:Thursday | March 5, 2020 | 12:30 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s long-term tolerance of a culture of violence is to blame for the recent wave of student-centred violence in schools, Richard Troupe, the acting director of the Ministry of Education’s Safety and Security Unit, has said....

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2020 | 12:24 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: An American national who was arrested on February 21 after attempting to smuggle 14 pounds of cocaine in two suitcases at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay is to be sentenced on March 10. Percival Joseph, 48, had a tense...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2020 | 12:23 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) says better days are on the horizon for ‘home-seeking’ tourism workers in St James as the agency is now formalising plans to provide them with legitimate housing solutions. In outlining the plans...

Published:Saturday | February 29, 2020 | 12:13 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica poised to improve its standing as an international competitor in the renewable energy sector, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging local interests to become flexible and adaptable to global changes so that potential...

Published:Saturday | February 29, 2020 | 12:05 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Science, Energy and Technology Minister Fayval Williams believes that, in creating policies to promote greater energy efficiency in Jamaica, the phenomenon of persons using electricity that they do not pay for is one issue that must...

Published:Thursday | February 27, 2020 | 12:21 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The western chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association’s (JHTA) is calling for improved ambulance service for local residents albeit admitting that there is no policy in place to have ambulances on-site at hotels for...

Published:Thursday | February 27, 2020 | 12:00 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says that persons employed in solid-waste management will be receiving a 25 per cent salary increase that will take their daily rate from J$2,000 per day to J$2,500 per day effective in...

Published:Tuesday | February 25, 2020 | 12:24 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Officials at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) and the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) are dismissing reports of two suspected cases of COVID-19 infection being under quarantine at the Montego Bay-based hospital’s...

Published:Tuesday | February 25, 2020 | 12:00 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU Like the security forces, Gary Howell, the managing director of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), thinks St James’ unplanned communities are helping to foster crime, hence the agency’s drive to legitimise the parish’s informal...

Published:Tuesday | February 25, 2020 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, believes that the growing use of new technologies in the teaching of needed skills to students is hurting the bid to revive the local garment...

Published:Saturday | February 22, 2020 | 12:15 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid outrage over a spike in school violence that has gone viral, Jamaican teachers have been urged to behave professionally and to be standard-bearers for moral values. That call has come from Dr Lorna Gow-Morrison, the principal...

Published:Friday | February 21, 2020 | 12:28 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: With two of the seven government ambulance assigned to St James now out of service, there is no question that the parish is not equipped to adequately serve its just roughly 186,000 residents and thousands of visitors who travel...

Published:Thursday | February 20, 2020 | 12:27 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The case against Constables Kenroy Hines and Damane Campbell, the two policemen charged with murder arising from the 2013 shooting deaths of three relatives in Shrewsbury, Westmoreland, has been set for February 28 to facilitate...

Published:Tuesday | February 18, 2020 | 12:20 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: With hundreds of nurses leaving Jamaica each year to take up more lucrative job offers overseas, it would appear that the trend could be a never-ending cycle as even the student nurses in training are already contemplating that...

Published:Tuesday | February 18, 2020 | 12:16 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: After several years of operating out of borrowed space, the faculty and student body at the Rose Heights Infant School in Rose Heights, St James, now have a building of their own, thanks to the input of a United States-based mission...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2020 | 12:00 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: In literal life-and-death situations, where every second counts, many Jamaicans are left struggling to find state ambulances to respond to emergences in a timely manner and have to rely on private vehicles or public transportation...

Published:Saturday | February 15, 2020 | 12:15 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has issued a stern warning for nurses to quit if they do not love their jobs and are more motivated by pay than by empathy and compassion for the patients they serve. The minister’s statement...

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