WESTERN BUREAU: When operatives from the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch (CTOC) swooped down on the volatile Grange Hill community in Westmoreland in 2018 and arrested 27 men and women linked to the King Valley Gang, law...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although the authorities have been making inroads in breaking the dominance of lottery scamming in western Jamaica, the illicit trade still has its tentacles firmly hooked in various sectors since it first emerged almost 20 years...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although condemning his utterances that were seemingly endorsing the lottery scam, People’s National Party (PNP) supporters in Trelawny Northern are willing to leave Dennis Meadows’ “moment of indiscretion” in the past and move...
WESTERN BUREAU: In the lush landscapes of western Jamaica, a grim reality lurks beneath the surface – a tale of neglect and decay in the region’s public cemeteries. With 46 burial grounds spanning across Trelawny, St James, Hanover, and...
WESTERN BUREAU: With many of the island’s public cemeteries in a deplorable state and some running out of space, at least one funeral director believes a rethink in how burials are done in Jamaica will resolve the issues. It is being suggested that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former national table tennis star Anita Belnavis, the mother of Bob Marley’s son Ky-Mani, has given the thumbs up to the recently released biopic ‘Bob Marley: One Love’. The film, which had its global theatrical release last...
IT WAS a service with a difference at the Glendevon New Testament Church of God in Montego Bay, St James, on February 11, as the congregation celebrated married couples. The couples, who conducted all aspects of the service which focused on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica will be solidly under the microscope for the February 26 lcoal government elections, as the popular sentiment over recent years is that “where the west goes, the rest goes”. Based on the results of the last local...
