WESTERN BUREAU: Jacqueline Brown, the acting senior education officer in the Ministry of Education’s Region Four, says the new infant department at the Content Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland has now placed the institution in line to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business leaders in Negril, Westmoreland, want the Government to enact stronger laws to protect the island’s tourism product, including to ensure that all persons seeking to earn from the hospitality do so legally and in an orderly...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says there will be a public order reset in Negril, Westmoreland, as part of the effort to protect the image of that resort town. Chang, who had a private meeting with 13 business leaders...
Western Bureau: Appreciative smiles lingered on many faces in Content, Westmoreland, as residents of the quiet, rural farming community welcomed the unveiling of the newly constructed unit to house the infant department at the Content Primary and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has disclosed that more men are stepping forward to report cases of domestic violence against them by their spouses. Over the years, several men have shied away from making such...
Deputy president of the Senate, Charles Sinclair, wants the country’s Maintenance Act enforced on children who have turned their backs on their parents and grandparents in infirmaries. Sinclair wants them held accountable for the care and...
WESTERN BUREAU: ‘TIMELY’ WAS the immediate response from Garvin Atkinson, principal of Chetwood Memorial Primary School in St James, after receiving snack packages for his students from Rev. Burchell McPherson, Bishop of Montego Bay, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: RETIRED DEPUTY Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant says it has become too easy for predators to attack, rape and kill children across the island, noting that many adults have not fulfilled their role as guardians of children...
WESTERN BUREAU: LEEROY WILLIAMS, chairman of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC), is claiming that short-sightedness between the commercial services and road and works department of the corporation caused the obstruction it is experiencing...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEPUTY PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Charles Sinclair, is pressing for the country’s Maintenance Act to be enforced in cases where persons have abandoned their elderly, particularly parents and grandparents, in infirmaries....
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH RESPIRATORY challenges running high among children, a good Samaritan in Geri-Ann Miller, through her Geri-Care Gift Box charity, donated much-needed nebulisers to the paediatric ward at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government will be taking steps to employ mental-health professionals to treat several cases that have developed in infirmaries across the island. Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie said that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: BOOSTED BY the success of composting and the recycling of plastic bottles in Chambers Pen, Hanover, the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will be expanding those activities into other western parishes. Dramaine Jones...
WESTERN BUREAU: While National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is suggesting that the Area One command could be relocated from St James to Westmoreland when the new divisional headquarters (HQ) for the latter is built, Assistant Commissioner of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Construction works have resumed on two separate two-storey buildings, valued at approximately $350 million, to house the Little London and Frome police stations in Westmoreland. The disclosure was made last week by Dr Horace Chang,...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS OF Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland are now in a better position to transform their lives through music and sports, having received a donation of assorted musical equipment and sporting gear under the Ministry of...
Western Bureau: At least 12 of the approximately 25 water truck operators in Westmoreland are to receive credentials to legally transport potable water to residents in communities where the commodity is not regularly available. That is according to...
WESTERN BUREAU: With some 50 new cases of the coronavirus detected in the parish since the start of the year, the Westmoreland Health Department is urging the public to step up their efforts at protecting themselves from being infected. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business and civic leaders in western Jamaica are divided on whether the Holness administration should send members of the country’s security forces to Haiti as part of a multinational response aimed at restoring public order in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: PATRICK FORRESTER, president of the Petersfield Taxi Association in Westmoreland, says his members did not join Monday’s protest against aspects of the new Road Traffic Act provisions because they have not yet caught the fever. He...
WESTERN BUREAU: GLAZETER LESLIE, a senior clergy member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Westmoreland, wants the leadership of service clubs in Jamaica to do more to protect and shield children from predators, and other forms of abuse being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Glazeter Leslie, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland said that too many Jamaicans are being sympathetic to perpetrators who defraud others out of their money. Leslie said there are multiple cases...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ROTARY Club of Savanna-la-Mar in its most recent community and vocational awards ceremony honoured six outstanding citizens of Westmoreland for their unwavering service in the fields of community development, sports, mechanical...
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...
