WESTERN BUREAU: Organisers of this year’s Westmoreland Agricultural Show will be emphasising the use of technology in farms as they seek to inspire more youth to pursue careers or ventures in agriculture. The show, which will be staged at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 94 early childhood students at the Cornwall Gardens Basic School in Mount Salem, St James now have access to a first-class sickbay where children who are not well can be stabilised before they receive additional medical care....
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Tameka Stephenson-Harris, immediate past president of the St Andrew-based Alpha Academy Alumnae Association-Jamaica Chapter, says that despite their circumstances, the young ladies at the Montego Bay Community Home for Girls...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEMP AND ganja farmers in Westmoreland have served verbal notice to launch a petition that will, among other things, call on the Government to grant official status to small farmers by declaring a cannabis free zone in the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to assist in setting up a chicken-farming project at the Montego Bay Community Home for Girls, in St. James, in a bid to create a path to self-reliance for the young residents....
Employees of Jamwest Motorsports and Adventure Park, in Westmoreland, have collaborated with Amstar DMC Jamaica Limited to clean up Salmon Point Beach in the western parish as part of its corporate social responsibility to the community. Andel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Powered by the under-construction Harbour City Shopping Mall and Afresh Marketplace, Janet Richards, a retired banker, through her charity, the Janet Richards Foundation (JRF), continues to inspire young ladies and bring hope to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the insistence by some parish councils that the National Works Agency (NWA) officials be present at monthly meetings, the municipal organisations and the body appear to be on a collision course. Concerns have been raised by...
WESTERN BUREAU: Medical officer of health for Westmoreland Dr Marcia Graham is encouraging Jamaicans who plan to travel to countries where malaria is endemic to first visit their local health clinic to get medication to protect themselves before...
WESTERN BUREAU: GLORIA HENRY, vice-president for business processing outsourcing and logistics at the Port Authority of Jamaica, says artificial intelligence (AI) will help to further transform Jamaica as a preferred destination as well as play a...
Councillor Rudolph Uter, the minority leader in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), wants $14 million of a $35-million property tax surplus to be given to councillors to undertake programmes in their division. Uter, the Jamaica Labour...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jeffery Smith, the western regional manager at the National Water Commission (NWC), says the ongoing drought conditions in Westmoreland have resulted in water levels at some of the parish’s major supply systems falling to as low as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winston Maragh, president of the Association of Local Government Authorities of Jamaica (ALGAJ), has said that he is prepared to be the first councillor to resign if political representatives serving in the island's 14 municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Homer Davis, says technical officers aligned to the Rural Agricultural Development Agency (RADA) are not providing the kind of support local farmers need to strengthen their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Franklin Witter, the state minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, is urging all Jamaicans to get involved in farming, even backyard gardening, as a way of helping to increase food crop production as the nation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Somewhat stung by the result of the most recent People’s National Party’s (PNP)-commissioned Don Anderson poll, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is now begging Jamaicans not to turn their backs on his Government and is urging them to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several police officers and civilian employees assigned to the Westmoreland Police Division were rewarded for their efforts to serve and protect residents of the western parish, which has become a major challenge to law enforcement...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the unemployment rate now at 28 per cent in Westmoreland, Keith Duncan, co-chair of the social transformation and renewal initiative Project STAR, says the organisation is actively seeking to find and train for the job market...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROBIN RUSSELL, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), wants the Government to invest a further $45 billion towards expanding and rehabilitating several public hospitals across the island. Speaking at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Head of the country’s crime and security portfolio in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey, has warned the Government against differences that may cause obstructions to police officers that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the global outbreak of the coronavirus, which significantly impacted Jamaica, has elevated the importance of forging public-private partnerships in the delivery of healthcare...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that a scarcity of skilled labour in some sectors locally can be linked to a redefining of how people are now viewing work. While industry leaders have reported that they...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Josephs and his team of more than 400 police officers who serve the various units in the Westmoreland Police Division were on Friday honoured by the Kiwanis Club of Westmoreland. Tracey Brown-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Even though Negril, Westmoreland, enjoys far better closed circuits television (CCTV) coverage than most towns in Jamaica, which allows substantial monitoring by state agency, JamaicaEye, the business community in the resort town is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte says it is too early to say whether Jamaicans will be required to vote simultaneously in the planned referendum and the next general election. According to Malahoo...
