WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in western Jamaica are clamouring for Senator Matthew Samuda to be promoted to the national security portfolio, replacing his boss, Dr Horace Chang, amid a soaring murder rate islandwide. The call came after Prime...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, 650 families from Westmoreland, Trelawny, and St Catherine got something to smile about going into Christmas as they were the gracious recipients of much-needed care packages from the United...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite a runaway islandwide murder count hovering around 1,400 so far, ex-mayor of Montego Bay, Homer Davis, says Jamaicans will soon have a renewed sense of security. While referencing the failed bid of the Holness administration...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is currently working overtime to construct some six groynes that are expected to mitigate the further erosion of the Montego Bay shoreline, which is constantly under threat from flooding...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says the multimillion-dollar Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay, St James, is to be retrofitted with closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance that will be linked to the JamaicaEye network...
WESTERN BUREAU: Young men in St James who had difficulty getting into the formal sector as it relates to training and employment opportunities because of their criminal past, will not have that hurdle to climb going forward, as the HEART/NSTA Trust...
WESTERN BUREAU: Janet Silvera, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says that should workers begin to get the feeling that they are not being paid enough they could well resign from their jobs and push the country’s labour...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Luz Longsworth, retired pro-vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies Open Campus, wants Government and private sector leaders to collaborate in building hospital wings that will provide dedicated and...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE ST JAMES has not been hit as badly as some parishes as it relates to COVID-19 cases and deaths, the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) is nonetheless full of gratitude to the parish’s frontline workers –...
WESTERN BUREAU: Leadership specialist Dr Luz Longsworth has declared the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic World War III, this against the background of the fact that 2.5 million people have died globally after being affected by the virus, which has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Garth Anderson, dean of the Teachers Colleges of Jamaica, is warning that the Government could be going down a slippery slope in its approach to the current Jamaica Teaching Council Bill, which is before Parliament, by not...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five months after work commenced on the rehabilitation of 1,200 square metres of roadway in the Quarry community in Glendevon, St James, the $15 million project, which was done using the new technology of combining concrete with...
WESTERN BUREAU: While acknowledging that there is a need for a fire station in eastern Westmoreland, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie, who has portfolio responsibility for the Jamaica Fire Brigade, says that the Government had not signed...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) is calling for the Government to withhold the salaries of teachers who are found to be operating without a licence, instead of seeking to criminalise them under the Jamaica Teaching Council (...
WESTERN BUREAU: FIRST-TIME Member of Parliament (MP) for Hanover Western Tamika Davis has said the country needs more safe spaces in which to rescue and protect Jamaicans from the surge of gender-based violence. Speaking at her party’s annual...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the next local government elections drawing nearer, two new political aspirants have declared their intent to battle for the Petersfield division, which has been vacant since former councillor George Wright was elected to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) intends to stage Sunday’s annual conference at 10 locations across the island to ensure compliance with COVID-19 restrictions. During a JLP press conference in Trelawny yesterday, party officials also...
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers, who heads Area One in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF), says work is now taking place to complete the retrofitting of the barracks at the Montego Bay Police Station in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday said that no elections will be held until the Government is able to stimulate the economy and bring stability to the nation’s crime problem. He was speaking during a tour of sections of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin believes that the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party could reap political benefits from the timing of the states of emergency (SOEs) declared on Sunday as the local...
WESTERN BUREAU: While business leaders in western Jamaica have embraced the decision by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to declare states of emergency (SOEs) in the Hanover, Westmoreland, and St James police divisions, they are concerned as to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Workers at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security offices in Montego Bay were forced to catch water from a leaking roof in buckets during heavy rains earlier this week after more than half a billion dollars was spent in 2017 to...
WESTERN BUREAU: COME SUNDAY December 5, some 30 frontline workers in St James will be awarded at the inaugural Frontline Awards, an initiative by the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Sarah’s Children Foundation, to recognise...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Deputy Leader J.C. Hutchinson is predicting that when the next local government elections are called, his party will be taking over the leadership of all five municipal corporations in Area Council Four,...
WESTERN BUREAU: While Bertel Moore is preparing to ride off into the political sunset when the next local government election is called, the People’s National Party (PNP) stalwart is confident that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will never take...
