Minister of Education’s Fayval Williams’ announcement that school would be extended for grade 6 through what should be the start of Summer holidays has not gone down well with teachers, who have not yet had a break, going straight from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twelve farmers, eight women and four men who formerly did their farming in the Negril Morass, are today enjoying much better returns, thanks to a $5-million project spearheaded by the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) and the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With local government elections due in less than a year, some councillors in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) are viewing with suspicion delays in disbursements to the entity’s Parochial Revenue Fund (PRF). But...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 14 councillors of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) have launched a broadside against the leadership of the Association of Local Government Authorities of Jamaica (ALGAJ), saying they are unhappy with the quality of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has come out in support of a resolution in the St Mary Municipal Corporation (StMC) seeking to amend the Integrity Commission Act to reduce the statutory declaration reporting period from...
WESTERN BUREAU Days after the country rolled out its vaccination campaign in search of herd immunity, Dr Marcia Graham, the medical officer of health (MOH) at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, said that the parish’s 34-bed COVID-19 ward is full to capacity and overflowing. “When we look at our isolation ward, we are at 115 per cent...
WESTERN BUREAU: With public hospitals struggling to find bed space to address the growing number of positive COVID-19 cases, the operator of one of the foremost private hospitals in rural Jamaica is expressing a willingness to assist the Government...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has said he will be investigating reports that ‘backyard style’ burials are taking place in the Roaring River community, which could contaminate one of the primary sources of domestic water in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: On a day when the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) COVID-19 cases breached the 6,000 mark, Errol Greene, the authority’s regional director, led the way as medical personnel in western Jamaica got their shot of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin has issued a word of caution to the parish’s newly commissioned justices of the peace (JPs) not to use their office to secure financial gains. The custos’ warning comes against the backdrop of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Approximately 920,000 members of the country’s labour force are excluded from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ work-from-home order aimed at curbing the spike in coronavirus infections. That disclosure was made by David Wan,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former president of the Jamaica Court of Appeal, retired Justice Seymour Panton, has accused some of the country’s educators of not doing enough in the fight to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Panton, who retired from the Bench in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Seymour Panton, retired president of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, has labelled as “time-wasting nonsense”, the ongoing Trafigura court case involving former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and four other People’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: After almost one year of virtual classes for students attending early-childhood through to tertiary educational institutions in Jamaica, clinical psychologist Dr Pearnel Bell is warning against the practice of having children...
WESTERN BUREAU: The $1.3-billion Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay, St James, will be ready to receive members of the public, limited groups of 10, when the latest COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Originally scheduled to be opened today, March 2...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, the executive director at the National Solid Waste Management Authority, (NSWMA), says the proposed plan to establish a garbage transfer station in Frome, Westmoreland will have to be revisited as a result of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business, civic, and political leaders in Westmoreland have hailed the news that the Government will construct a $200-million state-of-the-art police divisional headquarters in the parish as a step in the right direction. “The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite surging COVID-19 cases in western Jamaica, Region Four schools that have reopened for face-to-face classes have not recorded transmissions, offering much-needed confidence to education stakeholders. The parishes of St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the St James Health Services has charged that despite the northwestern parish being the most prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, it is having a difficult time shaking residents from a culture of nonchalance even as virus...
WESTERN BUREAU: Concerned about the frequency of drought in the parish, councillor Dawnette Foster, who represents the Cornwall Mountain division in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), is reprimanding some of her senior colleagues for not...
WESTERN BUREAU Almost a month after several detainees tested positive for the coronavirus at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, Yvonne White-Powell, a deputy superintendent of police at the St James Divisional Headquarters, says the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, executive director at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), says the new garbage-transfer station project in Trelawny is not dead, but the cost to build and retrofit it has increased significantly. “...
Western Bureau: The Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has exhausted the 25 beds initially allocated to treat COVID-19 patients and has been scrambling to find additional space amid a continuing rise in virus cases. Clinical...
