WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s tourist industry is on the cusp of pre-pandemic buoyancy and the month of March is leading the recovery with a pre-forecast of 200,000 visitors into the island. Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett made the announcement...
WESTERN BUREAU: Aimed at addressing the mental health problems brought on by COVID-19 on the country’s youth, the Ministry of Education has unveiled an extensive psychosocial pillar, which includes a cluster-based guidance concept programme. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Minister of Education Fayval Williams has dispelled the notion that there is a “mass exodus” of teachers from the classroom annually. While acknowledging that compensation of teachers was a sore point, Williams said that...
WESTERN BUREAU: ON THE eve of International Women’s Day (IWD), Dr Sherridene Lee, managing director of i-doc Wellness Concierge, was named president of the Western Medical Association (WMA). Lee, one of the youngest and most successful...
WESTERN BUREAU: The full complement of immigration officers, plus 45 kiosks during peak hours, complemented by the online C5 immigration card accessible at www.enterjamaica.com, are among the measures Sangster International Airport will implement...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the recovery of the tourism industry moves into high gear, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says opportunities have been created for the supply chain to be reactivated. In sync with the 27,000 visitors who landed on...
WESTERN BUREAU: One of Jamaica’s first black women to capitalise on the tourism industry, catering to the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Lady Mountbatten, and Princess Margaret, has died. Dorothy Vendryes, nee Gourzong, whose 1950s beauty salons...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 40-year-old reputed violence producer who pleaded guilty for his role in an $8-million heist in the upscale Westgate Hills community of Montego Bay in May 2020 will spend 15 years behind bars before being eligible for parole....
WESTERN BUREAU: The freak death of a landscaper has triggered a caution to homeowners to ensure that their properties are free of occupational hazards. The warning comes after 59-year-old Shane Lee fell to his death into a pit that was covered only...
WESTERN BUREAU: Citing institutionalised discrimination by the State, the Coral Gardens Benevolent Society, a Rastafarian organisation, is calling on the Jamaican Government to immediately take steps to establish a written policy condemning all...
WESTERN BUREAU: One of the island’s most respected gender specialists is calling on the country’s men to resist the urge to use demeaning or derogatory terms to refer to women. Dr Opal Palmer Adisa was responding to comments made on social media by...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBERS OF the Cornwall College Class of 1985 have increased funding for their annual scholarship programme to needy students of the Montego Bay-based institution to $1.65 million for the current 2021-2022 academic year, growing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton’s ‘Sole2Sole’ initiative recently received a donation of 125 sneakers from Montego Bay-based medical facility, Hospiten, furthering its aim of providing everyday Jamaicans with resources and...
The police have tagged the now-deceased alleged gangster Michael ‘Peat’ Shreaves to at least three recent murders in the parish of St James. The 27-year-old, also known as Pablo, of Wrong Turn in Salt Spring, St James, was reportedly shot during a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lawyers representing Hard Rock Café have applied to the Supreme Court to have a default judgment in favour of claimants Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited (CPJ) struck out after the food and beverage manufacturer and distributor...
WESTERN BUREAU: Trelawny is poised to receive its first town house complex in the parish upon the completion of the nearly J$1-billion Greens at Hummingbird Estate housing development in Greenside, 1.5 miles from the Falmouth town centre. Montego...
WESTERN BUREAU: A call is being made for the United Nations (UN) to join the global advocacy for increasing the resilience of the world tourism, travel and other related industries to ensure their ability to respond quickly to crises and recover...
WESTERN BUREAU: Wage talks between the island’s air traffic controllers and the Government are expected to continue today after a meeting between the group and the Ministry of Labour in Kingston ended in a stalemate on Monday. The controllers, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: A sickout by air traffic controllers has caused the cancellation of flights by two major airlines serving Jamaica and threatens further disruption to the travel industry if labour restiveness persists. Virgin Atlantic, which was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Placed in a girls’ home for uncontrollable behaviour at age 14, Phelisa Ricketts-Graham has made a 360-degree turn and now operates the Western STEM Academy, focusing on transforming the minds of Jamaican students. The 25-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is experiencing its largest hotel and resort development boom in any single year, with 8,000 rooms, mainly European investor-led, under construction in varying stages. In an interview with The Gleaner from travel and tourism...
Western Bureau: The Gleaner understands that the 20 handguns and 40 magazines that were found at the Sangster International Airport cargo on Friday were intended for a gun shop in another jurisdiction. The guns were reportedly shipped to Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sergeant Sheldon Dobson was not accustomed to taking his one-year-old daughter to daycare and a change of routine on Monday is said to have resulted in the death of the toddler, who was reportedly left locked inside his car for...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Heinz Simonitsch School in Rose Hall, St James, is rejecting discrimination claims by the mother of an eight-year-old boy, who is in the transitional phase of growing his dreadlocks in sync with his religion, that he was being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Departing COVID-19-positive visitors who are asymptomatic will no longer need a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in order to be released from isolation, says Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness. This is in keeping with the...
