WESTERN BUREAU: Businessman Mark Kerr-Jarrett, who serves as a director and head of the crime portfolio at the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), wants persons involved in the shipping of illegal guns and ammunition into the...
Western Bureau: A decision by the Government to delay the commencement of works on the long-awaited Montego bay bypass is not going down well with business leaders, who are yearning for an end to the traffic gridlock which has plagued the Second...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has pointed angry residents upset at the latest flooding of sections of the Cornwall Courts housing scheme in St James last week to the National Housing Trust (NHT), which it says has not...
WESTERN BUREAU: Andrew Wynter, the chief executive officer of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenships Agency (PICA), says international travellers will soon be able to live and work in Jamaica under its temporary residency programme that is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The renovation of the beleaguered Cornwall Regional Hospital can be completed by the first quarter of 2022 if the Government speeds up administrative procedures that have hobbled the project, Professor Archibald McDonald has charged...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says justices of the peace (JPs) who are not being thorough in exercising due diligence in performing their duties are allowing criminals to get away with illicitly obtaining documents such as driver’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck wants justices of the peace (JPs) to carefully examine the National Identification and Registration Bill and make their contributions towards ensuring that the rights of citizens are fully protected as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has come under a torrent of criticism from construction and engineering interests for claiming that Jamaica lacks the technical expertise to handle major renovation projects such...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the Westmoreland police intensify their relentless drive against motorcyclists who are operating contrary to the law, they are now running out of space to store some 200 bikes. “We just don’t have any more space to store...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ian Myles, councillor for the Little London division in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), is pushing back against a possible lockdown of the western Jamaica parish, which is the new epicentre of the spread of COVID-19 in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, is urging the Government to sell the 46-year-old Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) to set the stage for the Type...
WESTERN BUREAU: SAVANNA-LA-MAR MAYOR Bertel Moore and Westmoreland’s Custos Reverend Hartley Perrin have both joined the call for an additional fire station to service the hilly terrains of Westmoreland Eastern alongside an upgrading of the road...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the COVID-19 scrutiny being placed on Westmoreland, the nation’s new epicentre for the coronavirus, could be extended to other parishes as part of a major push to control the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says visitors and locals will have a much safer road network to traverse in some of the key resort areas across the island, thanks to the major $116-million road-improvement work that the Tourism...
Western Bureau: Tourism Minster Edmund Bartlett has rejected claims that the tourism industry is to blame for the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, especially in the western region, instead blaming locals for their blatant disregard for the orders...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Paralympic Association president Christopher Samuda has said that the spirit of the Paralympics has given rise to the birth of the country’s first parasports foundation, which was established in western Jamaica on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five members of the Westmoreland division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, who have collectively given over 150 years of service in saving lives and properties in the western parish, are now the proud recipients of National Awards for...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has said that the absence of states of public emergency (SOEs) is making it more difficult to create a safe and secure Jamaica. In January 2018, the Holness administration declared a SOE in St James,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness said an overhaul of the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) Act will be done shortly and packaged as a template to expand into more communities across the island and exported to other countries that are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winsome Barnes, president of the Mount Salem Community Development Committee, says that residents in the sections of St James served by the Mount Salem Police Station are overjoyed that the facility is getting a $45-million upgrade...
WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio with responsibility for works in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, says a big effort will be made to ease the plight of farmers by rehabilitating the damaged road...
Western Bureau: Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson does not support the view that St James should be split into two police divisions. Instead, he thinks the parish would be better served by having a larger headquarters and...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that unless Jamaica becomes a police state, it will require strategic security measures such as states of emergency (SOEs) and Zones of Special Operation (ZOSOs) to bring the...
Western Bureau: Winston Smith and Godfrey Drummond, the two candidates vying to become president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) for the association’s 2021-2022 administrative year, have entered the final furlong of their extended...
Western Bureau: Omar Sweeney, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), has said a section of the Mt Salem Primary and Infant in St James has fallen into serious disrepair and has been condemned. The condemned building is...
