WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on central Government to create a special fund geared at financing the western city’s continued development and management, particularly in light of the perpetual tourism traffic brought...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court is expected to issue a request for Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of fatally throwing her five-month-old daughter off a three-storey roof in December 2023, to get psychiatric treatment at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ocean Blue Jamaica Marine Corps (OBJMC) has graduated its first batch of cadets under its present brand which was launched in 2021, with the young graduates from the five-year training course being hailed as prospective leaders...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES HIGH School’s board of management has indicated that it may take another week before its personnel committee will complete its ongoing investigation into accusations that the school’s principal, Joseph Williams, expelled...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is giving assurance that meetings will soon be held between his ministry and other government portfolio ministries to ensure that the Programme of Advancement Through Health and...
WESTERN BUREAU: “WHAT I need is either for him to stop doing what he’s doing or they remove him from the school, because he can’t just be kicking students out of school.” That was the militant stance of Alicia R., the mother of one of the two...
WESTERN BUREAU: Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that, as part of ongoing efforts to improve service delivery for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), two technical working groups will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Richard Vernon is urging garage and workshop operators in St James to get their businesses regulated within the next two months. Vernon warned that enforcement will take place after that period against any such...
WESTERN BUREAU: LESS THAN two weeks after a fire of reportedly malicious origin completely engulfed her two-bedroom house in Salt Spring, St James, 48-year-old Danette Smith is issuing a heartfelt appeal for help to rebuild so she and her two-year-...
WESTERN BUREAU: “SINCE THE incident, she has locked down, and I am not getting much from her. Even when I ask her about the incident, she is not saying anything to me.” That was the revelation from J. C. [real name withheld on request], the mother...
WESTERN BUREAU: Motorists in St James are expressing concern about the traffic lights at the Westgate intersection in Montego Bay being non-functioning for over a year, despite assurance from the local authorities that the delay in rectifying the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has ordered that Saroyan Brown, the man implicated in the 2022 shooting death of cable technician Kemar Wilson in Catherine Hall, St James, should be held in police custody until May 24, following a failed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seventeen years after he was arrested on cocaine charges and his case adjourned sine die without a clear date for continuation, Mickey Miller left the St James Parish Court a free man after all the charges against him were dismissed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tyrese Hunter, the St James man accused of the 2023 shooting death of 34-year-old vendor Akeem Robinson, which was caught on CCTV footage in Montego Bay, will make his first appearance before the St James Circuit Court on July 22....
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James judge has issued a stern warning to police officers to change their approach to the matter of attendance at court, after she was left fuming on Thursday when one cop was seemingly unduly absent from his assigned case’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seven high schools in St James are slated to benefit from a training programme which will see their students learning how to pilot drones with tutelage from the security forces.The initiative, courtesy of the Cornwall College Old...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS AT St James-based Maldon High School now have an opportunity to practise fish-farming along with other agricultural lessons following Tuesday’s commissioning of a concrete fish tank for that purpose. The project was aided...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, the medical officer of health for St James, is advising that the monitoring of mosquito-breeding sites remains the personal responsibility of homeowners. Phillips-Kelly gave the reminder while addressing...
WESTERN BUREAU: LOCAL GOVERNMENT Minister Desmond McKenzie has issued a call to the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) to educate residents, including those who work as vendors, on the importance of upholding law and order by refusing to buy or...
WESTERN BUREAU: “WE CAN sleep now, somewhat, as we just have to see how we are going to move forward with the memories of Shineka and everything, but we are glad that they gave him what he deserved.” That was the response of Nickeda Gray, the aunt...
WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Bertram Morrison did not mince words on Friday as he ordered Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the murder of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, to serve a minimum of 50 years for the crime. In handing down the life...
WESTERN BUREAU: NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang says that St James’ long-awaited Granville Police Station, the original building which was destroyed by fire in May 2021, should see construction begin before the end of the current...
WESTERN BUREAU: AT 10 years old, Amari McGibbon of Duncans, Trelawny, has a future in bee farming through his family’s honey production company Amari’s Honey. Since early childhood, Amari has been participating in the business his father named...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PREMISES of the controversial Qahal Yahweh religious group, whose members are charged with several counts of breaching the Child Care and Protection Act and the Education Act, had a smell of rotting food, dirty clothes in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Vera Baker may not yet have attained centenarian status in the rural community of Jointwood, St Elizabeth, but at 95 years old and despite having poor eyesight, she is determined to live her life to the fullest as a farmer and a God...
