Western Bureau: Agriculture Minister Floyd Green has unveiled an ambitious national cost-production system, which is designed to provide local bee farmers with the tools and knowledge necessary to remain competitive in the market while ensuring...
WESTERN BUREAU: Grange Hill in Westmoreland, which has been a hotbed of gang violence in recent times, was in an appreciative mood on Sunday as the residents honoured three recently retired policemen, who they singled out for their roles in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite struggling with a non-communicable illness, Sheryl Kerr-Palmer remains a determined entrepreneur, and the recent launch of her innovative pepper sauce brand, Sheryl’s Homemade Pepper Sauce, is a testament to her resolve to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles, Jr is raising concerns about the country’s preparedness and ability to support its ageing population, as Jamaica faces a demographic shift which is expected...
WESTERN BUREAU In a groundbreaking move towards sustainable tourism, stakeholders behind the Sea The Change Foundation are seeking to have 385 acres of pristine beachfront property it owned in Falmouth, Trelawny, transformed into a vibrant eco-...
WESTERN BUREAU: POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PET) plastic bottles, old tyres, pieces of zinc, and other debris were among the items collected from the shoreline and mangroves of the Jobson Bay Eco Beach Park in...
Western Bureau Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles Jr says the 37 senior citizens, all female, who recently completed a 10-week course at HEART NSTA College of Innovation and Technology, international certification in digital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar mayor and Chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), Danree Delancy, says that some students who participated in the Ministry of Local Government’s National Youth Summer Employment Programme (YSEP) did...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Bertram Morrison, who is presiding over the Michaelmas session of the St James Circuit Court, yesterday ordered the police to locate and bring before him 12 jurors who were served jury summonses but failed to show up for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Michael Jackson, chairman of the Civic and Community Affairs Committee at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), has set in motion the local authority’s acceptance of a request to have the resort town of Negril,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Othneil Dobson, the police commander for Westmoreland, says his division has assigned school resource officers (SROs) to four of the eight secondary schools in the parish. In giving his monthly report at Thursday’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Michael Lee-Chin, chairman of the National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCBJ), says that while the town of Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland is showing encouraging economic growth, its infrastructure is outdated and lagging. “I was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Steve Gordon, the principal of Manning’s School in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, is seeking to solicit the support of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) to transform its Prescod Block into state-of-the-art ‘smart classrooms’. “We...
WESTERN BUREAU: Banker Michael Lee-Chin, chairman of National Commercial Bank, Jamaica (NCBJ) says his financial group will be blanketing the island with automated banking machines (ABMs) as part of its effort to ensure that all Jamaicans have...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SAVANNA-LA-MAR Rotary Club, in Westmoreland, emerged as Good Samaritans to the 90 residents at the Savanna-la-Mar infirmary earlier this week, coming to their assistance with a supply of crucial...
WESTERN BUREAU: Steve Gordon, principal of the Savanna-la-Mar-based Manning’s School, in Westmoreland, says that a shortage of building materials is jeopardising rehabilitation work at the 286-year-old institution, which was extensively damaged by...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Danree Delancy, who is also chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), is accusing the Andrew Holness-led administration of undermining the local government structure. Addressing a recent People...
WESTERN BUREAU: Grief was the order of the day at the Little London Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland yesterday as members of the academic and auxiliary staff mourned the loss of the school’s principal, Shirlet Craig-Davis, who died two...
WESTERN BUREAU: With sugar production no longer at the forefront, Kelli-Dawn Hamilton, CEO of the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) says the parish of Westmoreland is now primed for development that will foster...
Western Bureau: UNBEATEN WESTMORELAND booked their place in the finals of the 2024 edition of the Kingston Wharves (KW) Under-15 cricket championship yesterday when they defeated their Melbourne CC counterparts by four wickets in a low-scoring...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Garth Anderson, dean of the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ), says candidates are no longer embracing the teaching profession the way they once did due to the financial limitations which do not allow educators to afford a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Come the start of the new school year, students attending the nine high schools across western Jamaica will now be able to travel in much greater comfort and efficiency as the Montego Bay Metro Bus Company (MBMBC) has been allocated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Fayval Williams says the move to recruit foreign teachers was based on recommendations from principals, but at least one principal association is claiming ignorance to that claim. “I am not aware of principals...
Western Bureau: Education Minister Fayval Williams says the technical skills of quality surveyors are to be utilised to assess rehabilitation works that are now being carried out to retrofit 107 of the 352 schools that were damaged during the July...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Damion Crawford, the opposition spokesperson on education, training and competitiveness, says some 1,400 teachers are expected to leave the local classroom for jobs in the United States (US) ahead of the start of the new...
