WESTERN BUREAU: Much of Jamaica’s crime and violence crisis is evidence of the lingering effects of childhood trauma, a western Jamaica physician has said. Dr Sherridene Lee, president of the Western Medical Association (WMA), has expressed...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR ELIZABETH Ward, a member of the European Union (EU) technical assistance team looking at crime prevention in Jamaica, has indicated that plans are being finalised to establish a child-adolescent guidance clinic to help treat and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington has rebuked former Prime Minister Bruce Golding for suggesting that the Government has not been blameless in the Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) saga as it issues licences to investment houses, indicating to...
WESTERN BUREAU: GOOD SHEPHERD Foundation Medical Centre, the healthcare arm of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montego Bay, has received six nebulisers to aid their mission in caring for children and their parents in underserved communities across...
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESS LEADERS in Negril, Jamaica’s most westerly resort town in Westmoreland, say the destination is poised to receive an influx of senior visitors to the area because of the multimillion dollar state-of-the-art Omega Medical...
WESTERN BUREAU: OMEGA MEDICAL Hospital in Negril, Westmoreland, has been described as a game-changer in the field of healthcare services by patients, medical practitioners, and the business community, having successfully performed its first surgery...
WESTERN BUREAU: MOSES CHYBAR, head of Westmoreland’s commerce and industry lobby has welcomed an investment of approximately $60 billion by Bamboo Bioproducts International (BBI). He said the proposed establishment of a bamboo pulp mill will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans are being placed on alert for a possible shortage of chicken meat and eggs towards the end of March, heading into April, as a result of a recent animal feed shortage. Dwaine Josephs, deputy parish agricultural manager for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight aspiring early-childhood and family life educators are to benefit from US$20,000 in scholarship money being awarded by Edmund Bartlett, member of parliament through his East Central St James Education Fund. Bartlett announced...
WESTERN BUREAU: AN UNPAID teaching experience at Camperdown High School has transformed and positioned Ricardo Bennett, an Excelsior High School alumnus who wanted nothing to do with the profession, into becoming the fifth principal of the Sam...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett is looking to raise US$1.5 million dollars to establish a world-class Early Childhood Centre for Innovation in his constituency.“The focus ... is going to be on the children of the communities...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has given instructions to Marlene Malahoo Forte, minister of legal and constitutional affairs, to proceed with “speed” towards transforming Jamaica into a republic. “It is time that Jamaica becomes a...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTMORELAND Health Services is campaigning against disease prevention, and urging parents and guardians to ensure that children under their care get the requisite vaccinations to guard against the contraction of diseases,...
WESTERN BUREAU: FALMOUTH MAYOR Collen Gager believes that the direct election of mayors could place someone with a better management plan at a disadvantage, especially if supporters of political parties are in the majority in towns and cities...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says there is an ongoing need for skilled workers to supplement the depleting pool of local skilled people to build the Western Children’s Hospital in St James. His statement...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that a new contractor is to be engaged before the current fiscal year ends, to complete the third and final stage of rehabilitation works at the Cornwall Regional...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has been operating with an inadequate fleet to respond to medical emergencies. Lennox Wallace, acting chief executive officer at the 50-year-old Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), says the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has dismissed claims by the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) about a hiring dispute between some qualified doctors and the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James. St...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND WELLNESS Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has expressed fears that the country’s fleet of medical emergency vehicles could become even more inadequate to respond to the needs of Jamaicans, given the culture of crime and...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEDICAL STAFF at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) could resume caring for patients and dispensing medicine on a section of the Type A medical facility before the end of the 2023 calendar year. That’s according to Health and...
Western Bureau: Rotarians joined in the celebration to welcome Rajay Hessing, the first baby born at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital in Westmoreland on New Year’s Day, Sunday, January 1. At exactly 1:50 am, health-care workers delivered...
WESTERN BUREAU: The leader of one community organisation is urging the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s western arm to rethink plans to extend its night collection to structured communities, citing safety concerns. “It is too dangerous...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Ellen Edwards, director of the online-based Open College University Experience, says close to 800 Jamaicans from all over the island have so far benefited freely from the educational outreach arm of the Church of God of Prophecy...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dramaine Jones, acting head of Western Parks and Market Limited (WPM), is reporting that a seven-day cycle of scheduled collection of garbage has returned to communities across western Jamaica. He said the escalated issues of...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAVEN SENT Foundation, Street People Liberation, Team Lacks and Friends Mercy House emerged overall winners in the charitable organisation category of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation’s 2022 Grant a Wish programme....
