WESTERN BUREAU: Close relatives and friends are reportedly among the sexual predators responsible for the rising number of rapes involving teenage girls and women in Westmoreland. This was disclosed by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Othneil...
WESTERN BUREAU Nora Miller-Welsh, the woman who mothered an entire community in Hanover and lived to become Jamaica’s oldest super-centenarian, died peacefully in the arms of one of her caregivers. Miller-Welsh was 110 years old when she passed. Up...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gray’s Pepper Products, a manufacturing company in Westmoreland, says if electricity is not restored, it stands to lose millions in raw material and international contracts in Canada and the United States. Gray’s Pepper Products,...
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER MORE than 20 years of fishing, 37-year-old Larry Gordon of Black River, St Elizabeth, has had three life-threatening experiences, but none more telling than the last, when he and two other men survived anchoring their boat on...
WESTERN BUREAU: As business leaders in Westmoreland moved to pick up the pieces from the passage of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday, they are concerned about the time it is taking for utility companies to restore service. Westmoreland has been without...
WESTERN BUREAU: Heavy rains and storm-force winds associated with the passage of Hurricane Beryl left a devastating impact on the 286-year-old The Manning’s School in Westmoreland. Administrators of the school on Thursday related major damage to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three men who set off from Whitehouse Fishing Village in Westmoreland last Wednesday and were out of contact for a week have been found alive after becoming stranded when their boat ran out of gas. There was jubilant shouting as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty-four-year-old Toni-Shea Grey, a public relations specialist who hails from the southern community of Mt Carey, will represent the people of St James at the 2024 National Festival Queen Coronation next month as part of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Principal of Maud McLeod High School Avis Bailey-Coleman says the institution has found an innovative way to enhance literacy among its cohort of students through technology. Bailey-Coleman revealed that Sandals Foundation has...
WESTERN BUREAU: When the new academic year begins, Munro College and Hampton School in St Elizabeth will welcome Johntae Peterkin and Nylah Martin, respectively, among their new students. Peterkin and Martin wrapped up their finals days at Negril...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sherona Small, a 21-year-old final-year social work student at the Frome campus of the Montego Bay Community College, will represent the parish of Westmoreland at the 2024 Miss Jamaica Festival Queen National Coronation in August....
WESTERN BUREAU: A one-way ticket to her favourite destination, Jamaica, was intended to be a time of relaxation for nurse Sonja Lowell, but a traumatic landing only served to make the experience painful. Lowell, an intensive care specialist from...
WESTERN BUREAU : Kathleen Angela Casserly, who is known for her quick quips, and witty jabs remains a spirited personality enjoying her golden years in the community of Ironshore, St James. Casserly became a centenarian on June 15 this year where...
WESTERN BUREAU The Jamaica Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), is claiming to have detected what it calls a “security threat” in the force. Sergeant Arlene McBean, the federation’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Awareness Association of California (JAAC) is making an impact on the lives of Jamaican youths through a transformative scholarship programme of which high-school bound 11-year-old Enyameikie Daley is the latest...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation (JPF), Sergeant Arleen McBean, has warned rank-and-file members of the police force that they will not get her support should they choose to use their powers and abuse civilians. Speaking at...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) have delayed their decision on a resolution seeking to amend the Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act, so that persons with a criminal record who have been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rastafarian elder Ras Iyah V, former chairman of the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganja Farmers Association, wants the Government to redistribute those lands formerly used for sugar cane farming to high schools across the parish to expand...
A revelation that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) does not possess the equipment to access, or training to assess the black box of a Shacman truck involved in a crash that left five persons dead in Westmoreland last year has thrown the defence...
WESTERN BUREAU: Investors from Bamboo Bioproducts are preparing to break ground in 2025 for a state-of-the-art bamboo mill that will use Jamaican bamboo pulp to make toilet paper, paper towels, and sanitary napkins. Established in Jamaica three...
WESTERN BUREAU: Coote Savannah narrowly won the 2024 Westmoreland Parish Library Network Grange Hill Branch Library’s Early Childhood Institution Quiz competition which was staged as part of Child Month activities, this year. The competition,...
Twenty-two grade 10 agricultural science students from 11 high schools in St Elizabeth on Wednesday received a share of $660,000 in academic grants to pursue their studies. The grant was made possible by Jamaica workers who are employed to Gebber...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Association of Branch Societies (WABS), an arm of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), has expressed its willingness to embrace the cultivation of ackee, breadfruit and mangoes (ABM) to meet the demands of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Members of the Special Operations Team of the St James Police Division now have their own operational and administrative base in the form of a container mobile office at the St James Police Divisional Headquarters in Freeport,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hospitality stakeholders who suffered financial losses during the heightened period of the ongoing severe water crisis in Hanover and Westmoreland are to receive some level of support from the Government. While the details and...
