Councillor Charles Sinclair is appealing to the Andrew Holness administration to ignore detractors and increase the pursuit of the harshest penalty for murder. Speaking at Thursday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation, days after...
Residents of Anchovy and adjoining communities in St James are to benefit from a multimillion-dollar water improvement initiative, that is expected to result in consistent supply of the precious commodity in their pipelines for the first time in...
Despite constant warnings that there could be great devastation should a major catastrophe hit the city of Montego Bay in St James, the local authorities are yet to establish proper emergency protocols, including an evacuation plan. The 5.6-...
Outsourcing firm ibex Jamaica is to host a job fair on Saturday and Sunday to identify 2000 candidates to fill vacancies for its new facility at GTECH Park in Greater Portmore St Catherine. The state-of-the-art Campus Delivery Centre in the...
Parents and guardians of approximately 90 students attending Mount Alvernia High have agreed to participate in a programme to improve their children’s academic performance. This follows a meeting at the Montego Bay, St James-based school on Monday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites says there is need for a recasting of the framework of the teaching profession to makes teachers more accountable in the educational transformation needed to make Jamaica prosperous....
Top outsourcing executive Anand Biradar has been re-elected unopposed to serve a second term as president of the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ). The vote took place at the GSAJ’s annual general meeting (AGM) held at the Montego Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Granville in St James is poised to get a new, fully-equipped 50-man police station in the next financial year. The new station, which will be constructed at the site of the old facility which was destroyed by fire...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST James Health Department has launched an investigation into reports that wastewater from the Retirement landfill in the parish could be contaminating water sources that serve residents of Pitfour, Granville, and adjoining...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly 20 years after making full payment for a property he bought from the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation, (WMC) and despite numerous appeals to several state agencies for assistance in the process, 67-year-old returning...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Industry, Investment, and Commerce Senator Aubyn Hill says he is confident that the necessary security mechanism will be in place to ensure the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) amid growing fears that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE ARE mixed views about the effectiveness of the project ‘Restoring Paradise, A Public Order Reset’, which was designed to bring order to all facets of life in Montego Bay, St James. Some stakeholders are of the view that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gloria Henry, immediate past president of the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), says she supports the importation of specialised workers in the outsourcing sector, but insists that greater emphasis must be placed on...
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has renewed his call for the Portland Municipal Corporation (PMC) to identify lands to construct a night shelter for the homeless, to protect them from the elements and criminality. The parish, formerly...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE INTRODUCTION of container homes as a part of the solution to address Jamaica’s housing deficit has been met with scepticism by some stakeholders in western Jamaica, who think there needs to be a public education campaign to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector are now seeking to identify employees, who require limited supervision, to be a part of the work-from-home regime for companies operating in the special economic zones (...
WESTERN BUREAU: CHRISTINE GILBERT, the mother of 12-year-old Jennel Walters, who perished in a flood after a bout of heavy rains in Montego Bay last year, is poised to take civil action against the state, saying that incomplete roadwork was...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE THEIR recent success in apprehending high-profile gangsters in the parish, the police high command in Westmoreland remains concerned about the number of criminals who have managed to elude capture by using off-roads...
Western Bureau: Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey has given the police an A grade for their performance last year, despite a staggering 1,498 murders recorded for the period – a tally which has tagged Jamaica as one of the countries with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several operators in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector are pushing to reduce the number of staff working from home in compliance with the Government’s permanent 70-30 staff ratio stipulation by the end of 2023 in light...
Western Bureau: Three years after Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton ordered a probe into the multi million dollar sewage improvement project at the Savanna-la-Mar hospital, in Westmoreland, the work appears to have stalled. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the many challenges facing Region Four of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, Assistant Commissioner Floyd McLean, who oversees the region, remains confident the service is sufficiently equipped to respond to any major disaster in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The town of Black River in St Elizabeth, which is emerging as a major tourism destination, will today see the launch of a new initiative dubbed Something to Sea under the Tourism Development Product Company Limited’s Spruce Up Pon...
Western Bureau: Despite the encouraging statistics showing most major crimes are on the decline in the parish, one senior police officer in Westmoreland is still concerned about the number of robberies and the increasing incidents of persons...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) on Thursday, March 9, say that, had the authorities heeded their call for a fire station to be set up in western Westmoreland, the mother and child...
