WESTERN BUREAU: Hospitality stakeholders who suffered financial losses during the heightened period of the ongoing severe water crisis in Hanover and Westmoreland are to receive some level of support from the Government. While the details and...
WESTERN BUREAU: A request by a female detective constable from Westmoreland for the Government to consider allowing the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to establish a dedicated blood bank for police officers has not found favour with National...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says a monument to honour fallen police officers, especially those who have died on duty, will be erected as part of the delayed Police Plaza in Kingston. The commitment came following...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two low- to middle-income earners are among several contributors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) who are now the happy new owners of a piece of Jamaica after receiving credentials to their service lots from Prime Minister...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eighty-four year-old Ivette Myles, a resident of Cornwall Mountain in Westmoreland, has welcomed the construction of a wheelchair access ramp at the Cornwall Mountain Health Centre, which she attends for her medical check-up on a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake says he does not foresee Government preparing legislation any time soon that will mandate business owners to install cameras at their establishments to aid the police in their crime-fighting....
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James says he has given instructions and guidance to delegates on who they should vote for in today’s election of officers to lead the rank-and-file members of the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government is being urged to remove the burden of keeping and caring for persons detained in lockups at stations across the island from the police. The call came on Tuesday from Detective Sergeant Doris Stewart, Joint Branch...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 73-year-old senior citizen from Llandilo in Westmoreland, who used to work as a painter, cut cane, pick apples, and work on the United States’ seasonal farmwork programme, is now seeking assistance from good Samaritans to purchase...
WESTERN BUREAU: With no formal education, centenarian Uton Samuels is believed to be Jamaica’s second-oldest living person and Hanover’s oldest man. At 109 years old, he is still batting well, and, despite slight hearing challenges and joint pain...
WESTERN BUREAU: COMMANDER of the St James Police Division, acting Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, has tasked the 19 newly trained public transportation marshals, formerly known as loader men, to show respect to everyone using the public...
WESTERN BUREAU: Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says while the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) needs a fleet of approximately 500 to 600 buses, the Government in the short term cannot afford that level of capital expenditure. Instead, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Detective Corporal Pearline Simmonds and Corporal Karen Austin were honoured by their commanding officer of the St Elizabeth Police Division Superintendent Coleridge Minto on Sunday for the role they continue to play in adopting and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health for Westmoreland, says there is a critical need for blood, admitting that persons have actually died because it is lacking. “We need more blood donors. The system has come under...
WESTERN BUREAU Sergeant Kenroy Easy, the sub officer at the Morgan Bridge Police Station, says 43 per cent of the 35 murders reported in Westmoreland since the start of this year were committed in Zone Two, an area known widely for gang violence....
WESTERN BUREAU: A mother and a grand-mother are now left to grieve the deaths of their only daughter and son who were killed in a motor vehicle accident in Westmoreland on Friday. Among the dead are Shanique Savariau, a grade-eight student of...
WESTERN BUREAU: An animal pound based in St James could provide a welcome relief to Savanna-la-Mar mayor, Danree Delancy, in removing stray animals from the streets of Westmoreland and western Jamaica. Delancy said, following a brief discussion...
WESTERN BUREAU: Scores of Grange Hill Primary School students were briefed and exposed to practical ways of eradicating bullyism in schools by police officers and members of the civilian community during their Read Across Jamaica Day presentation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police Adrian Hamilton, commander of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) detachment for the CARICOM Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti, says the JCF team has the agility and commitment to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland-based business operators Icon Importers and Distributors Limited and Growers Choice Organic fertiliser in partnership with the parish’s 4-H Club are aiming to spur interest in agriculture among primary level students...
WESTERN BUREAU: RICHARD TROUPE, director of safety and security in the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY), says April has been the most difficult month with regard to violence in schools. Troupe, who was part of the education and youth ministry...
WESTERN BUREAU The mother of schoolboy Jahmiel Richardson has been taken into police custody after the eight-year-old perished in a fire at his Top Lincoln home in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, on the weekend. Sherone McDonald is expected to remain...
WESTERN BUREAU The World Trade Organization (WTO) has announced that US$1.7 trillion is available annually under its Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) of 2012 which Jamaica and other countries can benefit from. “That’s gigantic. It’s huge...
WESTERN BUREAU: RELATIVES OF Carson Barrett, the 16-year-old Grange Hill High School student who was shot dead on Thursday, believe that his death stemmed from a relationship he had with a female who lives in the community. That relationship...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE METEORIC rise of comedian Curley C. Roberts has come as no surprise to those who are familiar with the popular actor and businessman’s journey. He is a past student of St Catherine High School who had plans to become an attorney...
