WESTERN BUREAU: Leighton Johnson, the newly appointed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), wants the organisation to spearhead a campaign that will make the local teaching profession more attractive to draw in potential recruits...
WESTERN BUREAU: LA SONJA Harrison, the immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association [JTA], believes that Jamaica’s potential shortage of teachers ahead of the September school term will be seen in the number of vacancies for...
WESTERN BUREAU: FREDRICK INGRAM, the secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), wants Jamaican teachers to identify and establish their purpose as educators in their native land. He noted this, even while he giving an...
WESTERN BUREAU: Medical technologists are said to be disgruntled over the Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel’s (UTASP) reported lack of action regarding their wage negotiations. They are unhappy about the delay in signing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ahead of Monday’s staging of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) 59th annual conference, Suffragan Bishop of Montego Bay Leon Golding is reminding educators that all children must be given an equal opportunity for quality...
WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATION MINISTER Fayval Williams is declaring that this year’s cohort of grade-six school-leavers has a technological learning advantage over those students who went before them and did not have that experience. The 2023 cohort...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST MARY’S Preparatory School in Montpelier, St James shone proudly last Thursday as three of its students, Jovoy Thomas, La-Sharna Leslie, and Dajanaye Clarke, were publicly recognised as the three top-performing Primary Exit...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL COMMUNITIES in St James East Central which have suffered from water supply issues for years may look forward to full water supply by the end of September. This follows the projected completion of $600 million worth of...
WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF the upcoming annual Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) conference, Education Minister Fayval Williams is declaring that her ministry will continue to keep abreast of updates on the number of teachers who leave the...
WESTERN BUREAU: NEKEISHA BURCHELL, deputy general secretary of the People’s National Party [PNP], is full of pride and loyalty for her native Garlands community in St James. She aims to put that patriotism into action in her bid to become South St...
WESTERN BUREAU: PEOPLE’S NATIONAL Party (PNP) Senator Peter Bunting is voicing unwavering support for fellow party member and general secretary, Dr Dayton Campbell, who is currently facing three defamation lawsuits over remarks made at a political...
WESTERN BUREAU: FORMER NATIONAL Security Minister Peter Bunting is sharply criticising the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for failing to ensure accountability for its senior members at a time when Jamaica has recorded 854 murders, more than half...
WESTERN BUREAU: PEOPLE’S NATIONAL Party (PNP) Vice-President Donna Scott-Mottley is questioning whether the six as-yet-unnamed parliamentarians being investigated for illicit enrichment have any connection to the Integrity Commission Oversight...
WESTERN BUREAU: Vendors at the Harbour Street Craft Market in Montego Bay, St James, are counting their losses after nine shops were plundered over the Independence holiday. The losses are estimated at several thousand dollars. One vendor, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: The parents of seven-month-old Theodore Lewis are desperately seeking financial assistance for a surgery to correct nerve damage he reportedly suffered at birth at the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny. Donald Lewis and Tareena James,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Neil Spence, one of 14 people currently before the court following the June 30 police raid at the Qahal Yahweh religious compound in Norwood, St James, will have to wait until September 15 to know his fate when he returns for...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] is rebuffing claims from the Harbour Street Craft Market Association’s leadership that no efforts have been made to carry out repair work at the market’s site in downtown Montego Bay in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL CRAFT traders at the Harbour Street Craft Market in Montego Bay, St James, are crying foul over allegations that they cannot peddle their wares due to preferential treatment to other vendors from their in-house association...
WESTERN BUREAU: BISHOP O’GARTH MCKOY, the national superintendent of the United Pentecostal Church of Jamaica, is commending Jamaica’s leadership for its recent refusal to grant diplomatic privileges to the partner of a gay American diplomat, even...
WESTERN BUREAU: Even though she once shared an intimate relationship with Omar Green, Nordia Edwards felt no pity for him yesterday as he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her nine-year-old daughter, Nikita Noel. “He got the chance...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of Detective Sergeant Sheldon Dobson, the policeman who is facing a manslaughter charge in relation to the death of his infant daughter, was put off until December 14 when he appeared in the St Elizabeth Circuit Court in...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has given an assurance that the referendum, which is needed to transform Jamaica into a republic, will not be held at the same time as the country’s general or local...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is urging parents to remember that they should care for their own mental health by creating ‘safe spaces’ for themselves to relieve their stress, even as they help their children to manage their...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police Vernon Ellis, the commanding officer for the St James Police Division, believes that consideration should be given to digitising the approval process for applications for parties and other social...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROMAINE KERR, one of three airport workers who has been on trial for allegedly attempting to smuggle 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight destined for Canada in 2021, was discharged by the St James Parish Court following a no-...
