Western Bureau: Wild celebrations erupted in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, last evening as supporters of 43-year-old Richard Currie sang and danced after it was announced that he had dethroned the incumbent, Ferron Williams, to become the new...
Western Bureau: In the wake of a deadly weekend in which bloodthirsty gangsters snuffed out the lives of 25 Jamaicans and left several nursing injuries, the State has pledged to ramp up the fight against crime and rein in the raw brutality. In St...
Western Bureau: The authorities are still tabulating the cost of last Friday’s flood rains, which did extensive damage in the vicinity of the Long Hill main road on the outskirts of Montego Bay in St James as a massive clean-up drive continues....
WESTERN BUREAU: A senior citizen who tested positive for COVID-19 and who was admitted to the isolation ward at the Savanna-la-Mar General Hospital is believed to have committed suicide after his body was found hanging from the roof. The dead man...
Western Bureau: While the Hanover police are elated at Sunday’s seizure of two high-powered rifles among a cache of arms and ammunition seized in Dry Hill district, residents are mystified by the find, which they say is out of character with the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The collapse of the gang trial against 19 people who were alleged to have made Dexter Street their headquarters of horror has rattled the nerves of residents and business persons in Savanna-la-Mar, fearful of a resurgence of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government and security forces have come under fire from two leading business lobbies as the resort city of Montego Bay has been hit by a wave of shootings and killings that have rattled tourism and other commercial interests....
Western Bureau: Terror reigned in the parish of Westmoreland between midday Monday and yesterday morning as eight persons were killed by bloodthirsty gunmen in a murderous rampage that spanned several communities. “Di Devil tek wi parish from wi....
WESTERN BUREAU:As was the case last year when the Government was forced to declare a state of public emergency (SOE) in St James and beef up security across the other western parishes, killers are again on the loose in the region, with eight murders...
WESTERN BUREAU:Despite enhanced security measures, including the imposition of a state of public emergency (SOE), to curb St James' 2018 crime rate, the parish hit the 100 mark yesterday with yet another murder in the volatile Cambridge community.On...
Residents of Cambridge and Retrieve in St James are begging the security forces not to leave their community until wanted man Delano 'Prekeh' Wilmot is caught as they fear his wrath following yesterday's killing of his right-hand man in a gun battle...
WESTERN BUREAU:A group of students from Ryne Park in St James were exposed to real terror yesterday morning when a man who was a passenger in the taxi in which they were travelling alighted from the vehicle, pulled a handgun, and executed the driver...
WESTERN BUREAU:Donovan 'Tim' Roach, who had been prominent on the Westmoreland police's most wanted list for an extended period, has joined the growing list of top-flight gangsters killed in the western parish in recent times.The 28-year-old, who...
