WESTERN BUREAU: A SPECIAL Coroner’s Court has ruled that the shooting death of a police constable who met his demise in a bar by one of his colleagues in Hopewell, Hanover, during a robbery, was a lawful killing. The police constable, K’Mar...
WESTERN BUREAU: The death of Professor Richard Bernal, former Jamaican ambassador to the United States, has sent shockwaves throughout the country. Bernal, whose latest project was with the P. J. Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at...
WESTERN BUREAU: Days after arriving in Jamaica, hundreds of West Jet and Air Canada Rouge passengers who boarded their flights at the Pearson International Airport, Toronto, are yet to receive their checked luggage and/or any type of communication...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two-year-old Jahari Headley is on his way to recovery after successful heart surgery at the Bustamante Hospital for Children. Jahari, who could only eat puréed food and was suffering as a result of three holes in his heart, plus...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 54-year-old Westmore-land woman is desperately fighting to save her fading eyesight after reportedly getting the runaround for one year while seeking medical intervention in the public-health system. Juliana Blair, a resident of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sixty top-tier travel specialists were recognised Saturday night for pumping J$9.3 billion into Jamaica’s tourism and other industries this year. The agents, 98 per cent of them based in the United States and Canada, with one...
WESTERN BUREAU: Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has launched the only non-stop service between the American state of Connecticut and Jamaica. The service will see flights going between Hartford’s Bradley International Airport and the Sangster...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica is poised to have a strong winter tourist season, with a steady inflow of visitors enabling the destination to close 2022 with 3.3 million stop-over and cruise visitors and over US$3.7...
WESTERN BUREAU: The tourism capital’s Sangster International Airport has unveiled an expanded central departures lounge, which was redone to the tune of $1.6 billion, on the eve of the start of Jamaica’s winter tourist season. The redevelopment...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eighteen-year-old Arnav Muppuri is making academic waves in the sciences on the CAPE Unit 1 ladder, placing first in physics, third in chemistry and biology, and fourth in pure mathematics nationally. The Cornwall College High...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James family says it took them two years to find their father’s tombstone at the Pye River Cemetery owing to inaccessible terrain and overgrown trees that shrouded the burial ground. Their father, Roderick Coore, was buried...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Camrose in St James has continued to impress with innovative holiday showpieces, unveiling a solar-powered Christmas tree made with 1,250 recycled plastic bottles on Wednesday. The ingenuity had close to 50 children...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica has recovered 120 per cent of its revenue pre-COVID-19 and the country has welcomed 97 per cent of visitor arrivals compared to 2019, the island’s best year in tourism. This means the country will end the year with just over...
WESTERN BUREAU: This mechanical organ is a complicated instrument, built 132 years ago in the United Kingdom, but appears to have no plans of retiring soon. Today, its home is the 248-year-old St James Anglican Church in Montego Bay. Eighteen...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some 1,400 team members at Carnival Cruise Line report to Jamaica-born ‘Yorkist’ Dave Chang, but the status has not gone to the head of the senior vice-president of contact centre, sales, and services of the world’s largest cruise...
WESTERN BUREAU: One of the world’s largest cruise shipping companies, Carnival, says it is hiring some of the most qualified candidates directly from Jamaica’s Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMU). The cruise line launched a partnership with the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A Jamaican woman who became homeless twice in the United States now owns a 60-key hotel and is offering expert advice as part of a masterclass she has designed. Dr Ellen Bryant Brown knew nothing about daycare, nursing, real estate...
WESTERN BUREAU: The infusion of visitors with locals in the tourism capital made several steps to becoming a reality with the official staging of Reggae Nights at the multimillion-dollar Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay on Sunday. At the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A STEM academy aimed at boosting performance for gifted students with an affinity for science, technology, engineering and mathematics has been established in Falmouth, Trelawny. An extension of Western STEM Academy, where 25-year-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Passengers arriving at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Wednesday said they were forced to remain in immigration for more than one hour as Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) officers went on a go...
WESTERN BUREAU: “Untenable!” That’s how Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison has described the security crisis in rural schools where she said principals have assumed the role of guards quelling flare-ups in violence....
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid a rise in cases of gastro-enteritis in St James and St Andrew, doctors at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay have confirmed that a two-year-old boy who was admitted to the medical facility Tuesday night with...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the start of the winter tourist season weeks away, local tourism stakeholders are forecasting that the buoyancy in stopover arrivals will continue into 2023. Aiming to surpass 2019 pre-pandemic numbers – the best year in travel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Investment banker Dr Rasheed Oladipo tried impressing actuary Dana-Marie Dick with his medical doctor status, but she was not easily impressed. Instead, he had to earn her attention through traditional dating. And IT administrator...
WESTERN BUREAU: A United States pastor charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition by the Jamaican police walked scot-free out of the Western Regional Gun Court in St James on Friday morning, after being admonished by Justice Martin...
