WESTERN BUREAU: SAVANNA-LA-MAR MAYOR Bertel Moore and Westmoreland’s Custos Reverend Hartley Perrin have both joined the call for an additional fire station to service the hilly terrains of Westmoreland Eastern alongside an upgrading of the road...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the COVID-19 scrutiny being placed on Westmoreland, the nation’s new epicentre for the coronavirus, could be extended to other parishes as part of a major push to control the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says visitors and locals will have a much safer road network to traverse in some of the key resort areas across the island, thanks to the major $116-million road-improvement work that the Tourism...
Western Bureau: Tourism Minster Edmund Bartlett has rejected claims that the tourism industry is to blame for the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, especially in the western region, instead blaming locals for their blatant disregard for the orders...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Paralympic Association president Christopher Samuda has said that the spirit of the Paralympics has given rise to the birth of the country’s first parasports foundation, which was established in western Jamaica on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five members of the Westmoreland division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, who have collectively given over 150 years of service in saving lives and properties in the western parish, are now the proud recipients of National Awards for...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has said that the absence of states of public emergency (SOEs) is making it more difficult to create a safe and secure Jamaica. In January 2018, the Holness administration declared a SOE in St James,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness said an overhaul of the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) Act will be done shortly and packaged as a template to expand into more communities across the island and exported to other countries that are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winsome Barnes, president of the Mount Salem Community Development Committee, says that residents in the sections of St James served by the Mount Salem Police Station are overjoyed that the facility is getting a $45-million upgrade...
WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio with responsibility for works in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, says a big effort will be made to ease the plight of farmers by rehabilitating the damaged road...
Western Bureau: Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson does not support the view that St James should be split into two police divisions. Instead, he thinks the parish would be better served by having a larger headquarters and...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that unless Jamaica becomes a police state, it will require strategic security measures such as states of emergency (SOEs) and Zones of Special Operation (ZOSOs) to bring the...
Western Bureau: Winston Smith and Godfrey Drummond, the two candidates vying to become president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) for the association’s 2021-2022 administrative year, have entered the final furlong of their extended...
Western Bureau: Omar Sweeney, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), has said a section of the Mt Salem Primary and Infant in St James has fallen into serious disrepair and has been condemned. The condemned building is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) are crying out for water on behalf of numerous residents, who are seemingly being neglected by the National Water Commissioner (NWC), as despite having a rich source of...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE COVID-19 death toll in the United Kingdom now over 50,000 and new positive cases steadily increasing, British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad has revealed that medical experts are now testing sewage and treatment...
WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad is urging the Jamaican Government to act now in order to ensure sustainability in deciding on the 17 proposals of interest it has received to transform waste into energy, which is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The nightly curfews in Montego Bay, which is a part of the COVID-19 health and safety protocol, is being blamed for the delay in the completion of the new multimillion-dollar headquarters of the Montego Bay Fire Station, which has...
WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad has labelled as “insanity” the practice of running utility cables above ground in a hurricane-prone country as he urged town planners to also upgrade sewerage systems as they push for development...
WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad has said that the poor should not be blamed for the plethora of shanty towns and informal settlements across the island as it is the rich, who, in creating towns and cities with high-rise...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Mount Salem in St James, a section of which has been under a zone of special operations (ZOSO) for the past three years, is to get a state-of-the-art police station as the security initiative winds down. This was...
Western Bureau: Tamoy Sinclair, the disaster coordinator at the St James Municipal Corporation, has said the coronavirus pandemic has provided the corporation with an insight into how to provide for persons such as the working-class individuals...
Western Bureau: The General Council of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has again rescheduled its long-overdue presidential elections, which is slated to select a president-elect for the 2020-2021 administrative year. It is expected that a...
Western Bureau: Marlene Malahoo-Forte, member of parliament for St James West Central, says the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the annual parenting seminar which forms part of her educational support programme, leaving many parents grappling with...
WESTERN BUREAU: TERTIARY STUDENTS who received financial assistance valued at more than $3 million from their St James West Central member of Parliament, Marlene Malahoo-Forte, promised to transform their community following the end of their course...