WESTERN BUREAU: TIANGA BUCHANAN, mother of World Athletics Championships 400m gold medallist Antonio Watson, is overjoyed that the people of Westmoreland value her son’s contribution to the parish’s development through sports. Buchanan, who...
WESTERN BUREAU The St Leonard Baptist Church, based in Westmoreland, is poised to add education to its outreach programmes as it seeks to educate the youngsters in that community, especially in reading comprehension and literacy abilities. Speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU DESMOND MCKENZIE, minister of local government and rural development, has opened the doors of the 16 infirmaries across the country in preparation for the administration of approximately 450 persons. In March of 2020, access was...
The Westmoreland Hemp and Ganja Farmers Association (WHGFA) is proposing the establishment of a free zone for cannabis in the western region of the parish to grow and sell ganja. Delroy Johnson, chairman of WHGFA pitched the idea...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland, which has emerged as the epicentre for the COVID-19 pandemic in western Jamaica, was on Friday shaken by the death of a second colleague in less than a week. Already mourning Tuesday’s...
Former vaccine hesitant Vivia Kerr and her two daughters – Nadia and Natania – were among those who queued up yesterday, eager to get their first dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in preparation for face-to-face classes when the new...
Andrew Wynter, chief executive officer of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), says international travellers will soon be able to live and work in Jamaica under a temporary residency programme. He said the...
Daniel Lawrence, the Jamaica Labour Party's candidate for Westmoreland Eastern in September 3 general election, has picked up 18 votes from 63 rejected ballots counted on day two of the magisterial recount at the Westmoreland Parish Court...
Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Robert Montaque has expressed confidence that the constituency of Westmoreland Eastern will be won by the JLP at the end of the magisterial recount still underway in the...
Daniel Lawrence, the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) challenger for the Westmoreland Eastern constituency in the September 3 general election, has picked up six crucial votes in the magisterial recount still underway at the Westmoreland Parish...
A magisterial recount of ballots cast in the September 3 general elections in the Westmoreland Eastern constituency continues today. The recount was filed by attorneys for the Jamaica Labour Party's contender, Daniel Lawrence,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr. Andre Haughton, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) candidate for St. James West Central, said based on the voting trend, things are looking good for him and team PNP today. More than 28,000 qualified electors are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior citizens were among the first set of persons to cast their ballots this morning at the Mount Salem Primary and Infant School in the battleground constituency of St James West Central. They formed part of the long...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition legislators Lisa Hanna and Phillip Paulwell have done nothing wrong, People's National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips said on Sunday, as he dismissed allegations in Office of the...
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Public-school teachers are demanding reimbursement for hikes in their electricity bills and Internet costs related to hours-long online classes after schools were shuttered three days after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Jamaica on March 10...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kala Fleming, chief executive officer at Diaspora AI, says technology and digital transformation have less impact when it ignores large segments of society such as blue-collar workers. A blue-collar worker is a class of person...
Western Bureau: Gary Allen, chief executive officer (CEO) of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group, says that tourism is one of the things currently going right with Jamaica and, as such, the media communications group is delighted to help in the...
Western Bureau: Five years after the shift system was abolished, administrators at the Anchovy High School in St James are still struggling for adequate classroom space to accommodate the more than 2,000 students at its two campuses. According to...
Western Bureau: Declaring that Jamaica is not a banana republic, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has said that allegations against booted Minister of Education Ruel Reid will be handled appropriately, and that her office will...
Omar Robinson, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), says guests vacationing across the resort cities and towns are being severely disturbed by noise pollution from late-night entertainment events. Robinson raised the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland municipal officials are scrambling to procure Crown land and forge public-private partnerships in a bid to mitigate the depletion of publicly owned burial space that is projected to run out in 24 months. The cemetery...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that greater focus will have to be placed on the environment when Jamaica’s hospitality room stock reaches 50,000 within the next decade. He made the declaration while delivering the keynote...
