WESTERN BUREAU: In the wake of a recent fire in St James that killed two children at home while their mother was reportedly at a party, a senior firefighter has called for tougher laws to punish negligent parents. While addressing a child...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos of St James, is hitting out against parents who allow their daughters to get married before reaching the age of consent, while also warning that such young brides can become victims of human...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid has lashed out at former education ministers, describing their policies as disrespectful and a major trigger for the exodus from the classrooms to greener pastures. While...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis believes that the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex, which is home to the annual Reggae Sumfest music festival, could become a prime entertainment venue for the western city if the proposed plan to...
WESTERN BUREAU: While condemning Jamaica’s chronic criminality, including last Wednesday’s rape of a senior citizen in St Ann, Dr Meric Walker, secretary of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, gave assurance that there is hope...
Western Bureau: Unlike some residents in the western city, Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is expressing confidence in the capacity of the ongoing state of emergency (SOE) in the parish to blunt the lawlessness which has claimed 128 lives since the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a protracted education drive to educate residents about the dangers of rat infestation, the St James Municipal Corporation is still getting reports that food vendors and restaurant operators are dumping food waste...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica should establish an optometry school in order to provide improved eye care, particularly for students whose learning is compromised by poor vision, an advocate has urged. Gary Robinson, founder of the non-profit organisation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Lisabeth Crossman, regional psychiatrist at the Western Regional Health Authority, believes that education needs to play a key role in helping young people in the region to deal with mental-health issues, especially those whose...
WESTERN BUREAU: While two years has elapsed since the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ (WJC) took the decision to allow the embattled Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) to use its facilities to provide some of its services, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that in order for Jamaica to progress and improve as a nation, chaotic land and community developments, such as what pertains in some sections of Montego Bay, St James must undergo change and...
WESTERN BUREAU: More than one year after a 77-year-old woman’s badly deteriorated body was discovered at her home in Chatham, St James, residents who described her as a household name and...
WESTERN BUREAU: The tripling of mental-health cases in western Jamaica over the last 18 years has prompted Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton to call for targeted intervention and a vigorous programme attacking social stigma. Data...
WESTERN BUREAU: For Lisa Polack, yesterday’s groundbreaking for the new 220-bed Western Children and Adolescents Hospital in Montego Bay was a welcome development as she reflected on the difficulties she once faced making the long trek to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: While he is usually a behind-the-scenes operator, RJRGLEANER Communications Group’s Television Jamaica news correspondent Garnet Beckford stole the spotlight as one of 17 awardees at the 2019 National Heroes Day Civic Awards...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former police Corporal Clive ‘Karate Georgie’ Lawrence’s exploits have attained legendary status in St James, and he himself was publicly recognised for his heroic deeds on Monday when he was listed among 17 honourees at the 2019...
WESTERN BUREAU: The president of the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) is suggesting that sections of the Emergency Powers Act may need to be challenged in the Constitutional Court in order to bring an end to questionable detention practices under...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he wants to see more effort going into improving the credibility of Jamaica’s primary healthcare system, which includes promoting greater use of community health clinics by...
Western Bureau: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is calling on Jamaicans to develop the requisite maturity to put aside their political and other persuasions so they can join together to build a productive and prosperous Jamaica. According to Davis,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, acting parish manager for the St James Health Department, has dismissed claims that the parish’s vector-control programme is mainly targeting upscale communities, with little focus on the less affluent communities. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the Supreme Court expected to hear gay-rights group Montego Bay Pride’s discrimination lawsuit against the St James Municipal Corporation today, one St James pastor has staunchly declared that Jamaicans must uphold the country’...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says that by the end of this year, his ministry will be bringing forward legislation to clamp down on public smoking as reports have surfaced that approximately 15 per cent of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is expressing gratitude to the Church and some members of the public for their support as he prepares for his legal face-off against gay-rights group Montego Bay Pride, which is set to begin in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Acting Parish Manager of the St James Health Department Lennox Wallace says workers at the agency have been carrying out their duties effectively. He was responding to concerns raised by Dr Morais Guy, the shadow minister for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gregory Roberts and Mario Morrison, the two men charged with the 2017 murder of 15-year-old Green Pond High School student Shineka Gray, will have to wait until 2020 for their trial to start in the St James Circuit Court. The men...
