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Stories by Adrian Frater/Acting News Editor

Published:Saturday | August 12, 2023 | 12:08 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw, who led Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz to their historic qualification for the round of 16 in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which is ongoing in Australia and New Zealand, is already eyeing more history in the...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2023 | 12:07 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: CHAOS REIGNED supreme at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, for several hours yesterday as issues with the newly extended runway impacted scores of flights. More than 50 incoming international flights had...

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2023 | 12:11 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

Western Bureau: ODEAN ‘BOBO’ Irons, whose sojourn through daCosta Cup football took him on stints with former champions Rusea’s High School and then Cornwall College before he earned a scholarship to the University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK) in...

Published:Wednesday | July 26, 2023 | 12:14 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Dwight Bingham, the man who pleaded guilty to the January 2021 murder of former banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood, was sentenced to 45 years in prison in the Trelawny Circuit Court on Tuesday. Bingham, who is of a Rose Heights address in...

Published:Thursday | September 7, 2023 | 12:26 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Like she regularly did in her secular days when she performed as Lady Saw, Minister Marion Hall was all raw energy on Night Two of Reggae Sumfest, in Montego Bay, taking the Catherine Hall venue by storm with a free-flowing set,...

Published:Monday | July 17, 2023 | 12:10 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the fanfare at Saturday night’s 45th anniversary reunion and awards ceremony of the Montego Bay ‘Comets’ Athletics Club, which was staged on the city’s popular ‘hip strip’, perhaps the most profound statement of the night was a...

Published:Monday | July 17, 2023 | 12:08 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: In a short-but-classy display, veteran jazz star Myrna Hague dazzled the audience at Montego Bay Comets Athletics Club’s 45th Anniversary Reunion and Awards Ceremony on Saturday night, in the western city, with a performance rich...

Published:Thursday | May 18, 2023 | 12:05 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: ADVOCACY GROUP, the Association of Christian Communicators and Media (ACCM), will on Friday stage a forum to voice their disapproval of efforts by LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people) activists to change...

Published:Wednesday | March 29, 2023 | 1:34 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: THE STATE will be seeking the death penalty in its case against Omar Green, the Hanover man charged for the alleged rape and murder of nine-year-old Nikita Noel in Esher, Hanover, on February 1. On Tuesday, the Office of the...

Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2023 | 1:13 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Two security guards were killed in separate incidents in western Jamaica on Monday, one in a shooting at a popular plaza in Negril, Westmoreland, and the other along Strand Street in the heart of downtown Montego Bay in St James. In...

Published:Friday | February 24, 2023 | 1:18 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica was firmly in the cross hairs of the security forces on Thursday as soldiers and police officers swooped down on Lennox Bigwoods in Westmoreland and Tucker in St James. The operations were in response to the rampant...

Published:Wednesday | February 22, 2023 | 1:15 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: A 19-year-old hairdresser was among three persons arrested and charged in Hanover on Tuesday for lottery scamming offences in two operations carried out by investigators assigned to the Lottery Scam Task Force, which is based in...

Published:Tuesday | August 30, 2022 | 12:05 AMAdrian Frater/Acting News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Sunday’s service at the Glendevon New Testament Church of God in Montego Bay, St James, was quite an emotional affair, as the congregation said farewell to their beloved long-serving pastor, Reverend Ralstan ‘RT’ Powell, who has...

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