WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican goat farmers are bleating for greater protection from farm thieves who have pillaged their herds and robbed them of revenue, a senior Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) branch president has said. Speaking at the 2019...
WESTERN BUREAU: Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, is urging teachers to pay keen attention to how they treat boys in the classroom and to create an environment where they will not shy away from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the custos rotulorum for St James, is calling for immediate action to be taken to stop the growing murder tally in the parish, which he says is renewing fear among residents. Pitkin was speaking at the 38th...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, J.C. Hutchinson, has announced that in the next two years, the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will become a non-government agency and will have to finance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry-Ann Cunningham, the St James teacher charged in connection with the death of Anchovy Primary School student Easton Stapleton, had her committal hearing deferred yet again when she appeared in the St James Parish Court on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the chief public health inspector for St James, is supporting a suggestion from Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis for the St James Health Department to train representatives from the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) decision to publish the names of persons owing some J$70 million in back rent for occupancy of the controversial Bogue Industrial Estate lands in Montego Bay is bearing fruit as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gregory Roberts and Mario Morrison, the two men charged with the 2017 murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl student Shineka Gray, will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on June 3. The men were given the new trial date and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the chief public health inspector for St James, says that the St James Health Department needs more vector-control workers to help in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis is making a fresh appeal to business operators in the western city and the rest of St James to practise proper waste disposal in order to eliminate the parish’s perpetual problems with rat infestation....
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has ordered that the true identity of suspected quack doctor Alicia England be verified before her next court appearance on May 14. England, who allegedly posed as a medical doctor under the names ‘England...
WESTERN BUREAU: Kerry-Ann Cunningham, the St James teacher charged in connection with the death of Anchovy Primary School student, Easton Stapleton, will learn on April 17 whether she will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court. It was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Santana Morris, Jamaica’s youth ambassador to the United Nations, has commended the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) for putting in place plans to introduce Mandarin in its curriculum this September. Dr Marie Nelson, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dana Minto, the nurse charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a 2017 accident which claimed two lives, is scheduled to undergo her long-awaited committal hearing on May 2, after the hearing was postponed for a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) in St James will be offering the Chinese language Mandarin, as a course when the next academic year begins. MBCC’s principal, Dr Marie Nelson, confirmed the September start following yesterday’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority, said construction of the long-awaited Western Children’s Hospital, which will be located in Montego Bay, is scheduled to begin in June and is expected to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has hit back at critics who continue to voice disapproval of the price tag for the ‘Welcome to Montego Bay’ sign near the Sangster International Airport in the western city. The sign, which was built...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that his ministry will soon receive a design draft for the construction of a performing arts centre to be built in Montego Bay, to revive the western city’s theatre culture and enhance...
WESTERN BUREAU: Corporal Elaine Stewart and district constables Juliana Clevon and Marlon Grant, the three cops facing multiple charges in relation to the 2014 death of Mario Deane, will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on March 10 next...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an apparent rejoinder to Chief Justice Bryan Sykes’ commitment to fast-track trials in the Supreme Court, a high court judge has turned the spotlight on routine challenges, such as empanelling juries, as major stumbling blocks to...
WESTERN BUREAU: A lawyer for Gregory Roberts, one of the two men charged with the 2017 murder of St James schoolgirl Shineka Gray, will no longer be appearing as his attorney. Attorney-at-law Shelly-Ann Hyman, who has been representing Roberts,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two years after a devastating fire destroyed the Clifton Boys’ Home in Darliston, Westmoreland, ground was broken yesterday for the rebuilding of the home at the same site. Construction is set to begin within the next two weeks...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis says that the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) will be publishing notices for occupants of the controversial Bogue Industrial Estate property in Montego Bay to pay J$75 million in outstanding rent...
Jamaica’s first solar power facility, the Westmoreland-based Paradise Park Solar Farm, is poised to become operational by this summer, and the projection is that it will supply 80 gigawatt hours(GWH) of power on an annual basis. David Delaire,...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny Circuit Court has ordered that a video-footage expert be brought in to examine the injuries sustained by Kamoza Clarke, who died in 2014 as a result of a beating he sustained while in the custody of the Trelawny police...
