WESTERN BUREAU: Winston Lawson, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), wants a swift update on plans to install some 300 new security cameras in St James under the JamaicaEye initiative. The call comes against...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Belgian national who was arrested for cocaine possession at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Sunday, March 3, was given a suspended sentence in the St James Parish Court yesterday. Jan Gerebern Kempen, a 55-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rahjif Morgan, the man charged with the January 5 murder of University of Technology (UTech) student Demar Stennett in Montego Bay, had his bail extended to March 27 when he appeared in the St James Parish Court yesterday. The 27-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The highly anticipated committal hearing for Dana Minto, the St James nurse who is facing a charge of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the deaths of two persons, was rescheduled yesterday when she appeared before...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two gender-studies experts aligned to The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Western Jamaica Campus (WJC), are of the view that raising Jamaican boys to conform to a masculine culture that emphasises power and ignores...
WESTERN BUREAU: Melissa Harriot, the woman who allegedly stole a three-week-old baby at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay last month, had her bail reduced to $200,000 when she appeared before the St James Parish Court yesterday. The 26-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Novelette Grant, who ended her career in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) as a deputy commissioner of police, is calling for more emphasis to be placed on addressing the educational needs within the justice system in regard to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s leaders have been urged to rescue the disenfranchised, particularly the poor and homeless, for the public good. The call was made by the Reverend Karen Kirlew, president of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU), during her...
WESTERN BUREAU:Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that the total number of reported dengue cases in Jamaica last year stood at 996, over 100 more than had previously been reported, and that 79 cases have been recorded to date since...
WESTERN BUREAU:Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced thatSt James will soon receive 50 vector-control workers to complement the 12 who are currently working in the parish as efforts continue to control the dengue fever outbreak...
WESTERN BUREAU:The case against Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the inmates charged with the 2014 murder of Mario Deane, has been set for mention on May 2, at which time the doctors who wrote their psychiatric reports will answer questions from the...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is ramping up its public education and sensitisation campaign to fortify western Jamaica against the spread of dengue fever, which the Ministry of Health says has reached epidemic levels...
WESTERN BUREAU:Local government Minister Desmond McKenzie has pledged that his administration will provide some much-needed equipment to the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) over the course of the upcoming financial year. This will include two fire-boats...
WESTERN BUREAU:Errol Greene, president of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ), is urging citizens to immediately report any justices of the peace (JP) who breach the regulations of their appointed offices by charging for their services...
WESTERN BUREAU:Zachaeus Smith, vice-president of the New York-based Northeast Alumni and Friends of Godfrey Stewart High School (NAF), wants to see the removal of political influence from the education sector. He is calling for the creation of an...
Social activist O. Dave Allen, who is representing business operators at the People's Arcade in Montego Bay, St James, is planning to take legal action to keep the commercial facility open after it was closed by health authorities recently due to a...
WESTERN BUREAU:Senior Superintendent of Police Anthony Castelle collapsed in the St James Parish Court yesterday after he was found guilty for a 2016 shooting of a pregnant woman. She was shot in her back as she sat in a taxi that was fired on by...
WESTERN BUREAU:Gregory Roberts, one of the two men charged with murder in relation to last year's stabbing death of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, will have to wait until November 26 to hear whether his request to be tried outside the parish of St James...
WESTERN BUREAU:Following the murders of 43-year-old Dionne Smith and her 16-year-old daughter, Jay-Shenel Gordon, committed by Smith's common-law husband in September, two pastors are urging women to leave abusive relationships and to be careful in...
WESTERN BUREAU:Lennox Wallace, chief public health inspector for St James, says stricter punishments are needed for persons who breach the parish's health laws, including illegal waste disposal and unsafe food handling.Wallace said that while the St...
WESTERN BUREAU:Well-known western Jamaica-based family therapist Dr Beverly Scott is calling on the Ministry of Health to provide sensitisation training for the families of mentally ill persons so that they will be better equipped to properly treat...
WESTERN BUREAU:Scotiabank Jamaica yesterday made a donation of J$1.4 million to three schools in St James as part of its Nutrition for Learning programme. Thirty-four schools island-wide will receive a combined amount of $20 million to assist their...
WESTERN BUREAU:Family members, government representatives, and other well-wishers gathered yesterday to pay tribute in speech and song to the late Honourable Headley Washington Cunningham, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, in an...
WESTERN BUREAU:Emil Holgate, the project coordinator of the JamaicaEye security system, says that footage captured on the national security initiative's video cameras will be of superior quality when compared to footage that is currently caught on...
WESTERN BUREAU:O'Neil and O'Brian Walters, the brothers who were on trial for the murder of Kahni Erskine following a brazen daylight attack by gunmen at a St James gas station in 2016, were found not guilty yesterday afternoon in the St James...
