WESTERN BUREAU: Some 10,000 students from the Westmoreland Western constituency are slated to benefit from a $3- million investment in their education through an ongoing initiative spearheaded by People’s National Party (PNP) chairman Ian Hayles...
WESTERN BUREAU: Even as negotiations continue between the teachers and the Government over a new wage and fringe benefits package for the teachers, Keisha Hayle, principal of Padmore Primary School in St Andrew, is calling for an upward...
WESTERN BUREAU: Industrial arts students and teachers from some eight high schools across the island have been tasked by the education ministry to manufacture furniture to meet demand ahead of the reopening of schools. Leighton Johnson – principal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Renowned St James-based People’s National Party (PNP) activist, O. Dave Allen, says Lisa Hanna’s pending departure from representational politics will leave an irreplaceable void in the Mark Golding-led party, which is seeking to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Fayval Williams says the proposed licensing regime for teachers under the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill is not different from what obtains in many other countries to which Jamaican educators are migrating in...
WESTERN BUREAU: LA SONJA Harrison, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), says the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill, which is under review by a joint select committee of Parliament, has contributed to some of...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the nation’s teachers continue to buckle under the strain of the issues affecting the education sector, the country’s premier teachers’ union, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is urging the teachers not to lose focus....
WESTERN BUREAU: The business process outsourcing (BPO) landscape in Montego Bay, St James, has been expanded by an additional 17,000 square feet of office space, thanks to the expansion of Omni Nearshore, based at Barnett Tech Park in the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has welcomed the move by the Ministry of Education to give school boards the green light to recruit retired educators to fill vacancies in schools that are short-staffed. But the outgoing...
WESTEN BUREAU: In a move designed to grow the sector and provide additional jobs, the Government is now looking at expanding the work-from-home policy in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, which could result in some 30 per cent of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has said Jamaica is in need of more visionaries and entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks towards advancing the country’s development agenda. Holness said he has admired with great interest the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HAVING proven its resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is on target to employing 75,000 persons by 2025. Gloria Henry, vice-president of BPO and logistics at the Port Authority of...
WESTERN BUREAU: High school principals believe there has been little or no improvement in human resources and financial support to effectively combat a raft of problems in schools over the years, including violence. That’s according to Linvern...
WESTERN BUREAU: Clinical psychologist Georgia Rose believes that incidents of violence will continue to plague schools when students return to the classroom for the new academic year as a result of the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We...
WESTERN BUREAU Henry McCurdy, a former police officer in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has called on Jamaicans to repent of their sins in an effort to stop the spell of violence that is fuelling the current wave of murders. His call for...
WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators are bracing for impact after an anticipated mass exodus of teachers over the summer holidays as hundreds of educators are reportedly headed overseas to seek out better employment opportunities ahead of the new...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE country continues to celebrate 60 years of political Independence, a call has been made for lawmakers on the Opposition benches of the Houses of Parliament to honour Portia Simpson Miller, the country’s first female prime...
WESTERN BUREAU: PHILLIP PAULWELL, a former chairman of the People’s National Party (PNP), said that disunity within the party continues to erode the efforts of the candidates seeking to become councillors when the next local government elections...
WESTERN BUREAU: TIRED OF being in the political wilderness since 2016, the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has been pressing home the need for its members to present a united front in order to return to the helm of governing the country...
WESTERN BUREAU: BEAUTY IS big business. However, the vast majority of the beauty products being sold in Jamaica are not manufactured locally, says Suzette Brown, coordinator of Jamaica International Beauty Expo (JIBE). Guided by the theme ‘...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MONTEGO Bay business community is calling for a reset of public order to stimulate economic growth and to curb crime in St James. “For any city to be beautiful, public order must be maintained,” declared Oral Heaven, president...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR NORMAN Dunn, state minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, has cautioned Gateway Co-operative Credit Union against any plans that will marginalise or expose senior citizens to financial risk, as they seek...
WESTERN BUREAU: Political and medical stalwarts have expressed sadness at the passing of renowned family physician and former junior tourism minister Dr Henry ‘Marco’ Brown, who passed away on Wednesday. Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ)...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Canterbury, Farm Heights and Rose Heights, all in the constituency of St James Central, are now connected to the Internet, thanks to an investment of $15 million towards the installation of community Wi-Fi hotspots by...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin urged parents and guardians to be vigilant and to shield their children from online paedophiles as a free community Wi-Fi service was being launched in the Rose Heights and Farm Heights areas of...
