WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gary McKenzie, head of the police’s Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTMB), says he has seen an improvement in the behaviour of the motoring public since the implementation of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) says it is disappointed with the government’s lack of urgency in completing important infrastructure to support the rapid development of the western city. The protracted...
WESTERN BUREAU: If Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Clifford Chambers could have it his way, the Area One police unit, for which he is the commander, would be fully equipped with the latest technology to enhance its ability to maintain law...
WESTERN BUREAU:MONTEGO BAY Mayor Leeroy Williams says there is no end in sight in the long-running saga between the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) and the people occupying the corporation’s Bogue lands, which has been locked in a political...
Small and medium hoteliers in Negril have rubbished claims by Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) president Robin Russell that all-inclusive players are allowing their guests to experience life outside of their properties. Richard Wallace...
WESTERN BUREAU: While stakeholders in Jamaica’s services industry have been able to use aggressive recruitment strategies to fill vacancies as staff resign to take up other opportunities overseas, they are not happy with the quality of personnel...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of Health is awaiting advice from the Attorney General’s Chambers on whether civil action can be taken against people who have abandoned their relatives at public hospitals. “We have sought the advice of the attorney...
Montego Bay, the capital of St James is set to be twinned with the Greek city of Sitia, which will be formalised in a ceremony on Thursday, February 23 at 5 p.m. in Sam Sharpe Square.Negotiations between the cities began last September and benefits...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Railway Corporation (JRC) is seeking to attract interest for the rehabilitation of the 55-kilometre railway from Montego Bay to Appleton Estate, which is to be developed as a tourist attraction. Phase one of the project...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although preliminary data indicate a near 50 per cent year-on-year decline in road fatalities in January, Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), believes the toll is still too high. Up to January...
Thirteen years after a Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) review listed Jamaica among regional states that had no legislative framework in place, action is yet to be taken to establish a system that governs the operations of emergency services...
WESTERN BUREAU: OUTSOURCING OPERATORS in Montego Bay are calling on the Government to treat as a matter of priority the establishment of a transport centre that matches the rapid development taking place in the region. This follows a meeting with...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEAN OF Discipline at the Godfrey Stewart High School in Savanna-la-Mar, Barbara Dandy, says poor parental guidance has been a major contributor to the level of disorder and criminality in the parish. Dandy, who has been credited...
Prominent figures in western Jamaica last night welcomed news of Homer Davis’ appointment to coordinate special projects and major developments in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) amid a shuffle in the Executive. Davis, a former mayor of...
Leading hotel operations are losing an entire generation of their skilled labour force to other sectors, following the economic fallout from the COVID-19-induced disruptions to the travel and leisure industry. The tourism sector contributed 9.8 per...
While Jamaica’s public-health system wilts under the increase in COVID-19 cases across the island, two of the western region’s top health officials have conflicting views as to what might be the cause of the recent surge. Jamaica has recorded...
International outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has been jolted into cranking up its campaign to vaccinate reluctant staffers following an outbreak of more than 100 coronavirus infections at its facility which resulted in the passing...
While the police in Area One are reporting a marginal decrease in murders since the start of the year, measures imposed under the Disaster Risk Management Act to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have not been of much help to the security forces’...
There is a renewed call to crack down on the use of absorption pits in the community of Roaring River amid the threat that Westmoreland’s largest source of potable water could become contaminated. Steve Morris, the parish’s chief health inspector,...
From as long as he can remember, Roxroy Hutchinson has always been working with his hands. Whether it was scraps from the metal workshop near his home in Orange Bay, Hanover, or a piece of wood from the lush greenery throughout his village, or...
There are new calls for a swift resolution to the long-standing Bogue land saga in which several business operators who occupied property under a previous People’s National Party (PNP) administration are now facing a demand for payment at current...
Frustrated by the inability to provide guarantees to prospective clients due to the continuous rollover of short-term extensions for the temporary work-from-home arrangement for employees in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry since...
A Florida-based Jamaican couple who purchased property at the gated Negril Estate development in Westmoreland are frustrated at the developer Patrick Fletcher’s failure to hand over their land title after more than 12 years, and are demanding...
A psychiatric nursing aide at Black River Hospital is seeking the public’s help to save the life of her only child, who has been diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphocytic leukaemia. Akeela Steele, a 12-year-old student at St Elizabeth Technical High...
Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness, says the community transmission phase of COVID-19 will continue to see a number of positive cases at workplaces, but expressed satisfaction at the efforts of business operators to mitigate...
