WESTERN BUREAU: While the fate of the principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Dr Nicholeen DeGrasse Johnson, remains uncertain, a male lecturer at the centre of a sexual harassment scandal brought to light by The...
WESTERN BUREAU: With LATAM Airlines committed to three flights per week to Jamaica from the lucrative South American market, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is predicting that the pie will get even bigger with a multi-destination arrangement with...
WESTERN BUREAU: American Airlines’ commitment to bringing in 15 flights into Montego Bay every Saturday, starting early in the winter season, represents a historic moment in tourism, says portfolio minister Edmund Bartlett. The minister, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: With a stage size reminiscent of a Reggae Sumfest and lights that could rival those at Rebel Salute, Half Moon welcomed Fredrick ‘Toots’ Hibbert to its 65th anniversary celebration last Saturday night in Montego Bay. Toots not only...
Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang was toasted as champion of the people by his friends and political colleagues recently as he celebrated his birthday at the Mainland China Restaurant in Ocho Rios. The event was hosted by Dr Guna...
WESTERN BUREAU: The absence of a clear government policy in relation to the appropriation of former sugar cane lands in Trelawny is being met with consternation by soil scientist and member of parliament for Trelawny North, Victor Wright. Speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cabinet minister Audley Shaw has rapped Washington for bristling at Kingston’s deepening ties with Beijing, suggesting that the “nervous” White House was hypocritical in discouraging investment and commercial ties when China was its...
WESTERN BUREAU: The soon-to-be-built Marriott-managed hotel in Trelawny will give Jamaican firms and staff preference in its construction and operations, Keith Russell, chairman of the Amaterra Group, has said. Speaking at the official signing of a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican hotels have been urged to curb their appetite for imported foods and to build linkages with local farmers and distributors to provide tourists with island fare. Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Ella Drummond, Jamaica’s honorary consul in Barbados, has lamented the fact that Jamaica has become so desensitised to murder and dying that the 1,000-plus murder annual figures are now seen as normal. Speaking...
A year ago, 53-year-old Brenda Lee Campbell discovered a lump in one of her breasts, but the Bethel Town resident, who was unemployed at the time, could not afford to pay to have a mammogram done. Last week, her turmoil came to an end as she was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight Men of Might (MOM) who have served as presidents of the Cornwall College Alumni Association of South Florida were recognised for their outstanding contribution to the organisation during their 25th Anniversary Dinner Dance...
WESTERN BUREAU: “I must obey Avyhwh Yahweh. I must obey Avyhwh Yahweh leaders. I must obey Avyhwh Yahweh authority,” were the lines written by a 49-year-old mother after being kicked out of the controversial Qahal Yahweh Church in Norwood, St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Qahal Yahweh sect in Norwood, St James, wooed followers with a benign message that soon evolved into a toxic cocktail of “mind control” that entrapped believers with scaremongering dogma, says a former member of the religious...
WESTERN BUREAU: Security forces battled their way on to the Qahal Yahweh Church compound Tuesday afternoon to remove three children reportedly in need of care and protection at what has been styled as a cultic stronghold of abuse, sexual assault,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seven months ago, 75-year-old Clifford Preston, a one-time member of Qahal Yahweh, was thrice the victim of a brutal assault meted out by a group of ultra-radicals loyal to the religious sect. In the first attack, he said he was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sixteen-year-old Campion College whiz-kid Kyle Pratt has aced the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics exam, scoring the highest grade in the region. Kyle, who was in fourth form at the age of 15 when he sat...
LONDON, United Kingdom: Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett has made a call for investment in the tourism industry to go beyond the development of hotel rooms and other infrastructure. Bartlett made the call during his presentation on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cornwall Funding Services’ fifth anniversary celebrations continued in fine style at the Sunscape Beach Resort in Montego Bay recently. The praises and accolades that poured from the lips of mayor of Montego Bay and chairman of the...
Seeking to reside in Jamaica with his Canadian husband, LGBT activist and attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson has taken his same-sex marriage case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Tomlinson, who has been embroiled in another...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says Jamaicans have nothing to fear from the proliferation of foreign-owned hotels and other tourism-related companies across the island. He said that tourism investors have a high level of...
WESTERN BUREAU: As was expected, the ‘coming of age celebrations’ for Couples Swept Away and Couples Negril took place in fine style this past weekend. And guests who attended the 21st anniversary parties at the two sister resorts were in for a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Alice Li won the hearts of the patrons who attended the Miss Global International Talent segment at Hard Rock Café last Thursday, and two days later she did a double flip, capturing first place in the minds of the judges. A...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mt Alvernia High School in Montego Bay has got its first ever school bus in its 90-year history, courtesy of an effort led by the all-girls institution’s Central Florida International Alumni Association. The 35-seater coach, valued...
WESTERN BUREAU: The first batch of 333 Thomas Cook visitors left the island yesterday as the Jamaica Tourist Board plans to ramp up efforts this weekend to mitigate any decline in future tourist arrivals from the United Kingdom in the wake of the...
