WESTERN BUREAU: A travel ban on incoming passengers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a thunderous blow to Airbnb home-sharing investors locally, real-estate tycoon Angella Whitter has said. The international real estate agency market...
Western Bureau: ECONOMIST DR Andre Haughton has called on the country’s telecommunications companies and the banking sector to create and facilitate the use of mobile wallets so that Jamaicans can send and receive money remotely through the use...
Western Bureau: JAMAICA HOTEL and Tourist Association (JHTA) executive Wayne Cummings said the Government should revisit and broaden its COVID-19 stimulus care package to include tourism workers with salaries above the $1.5-million income tax...
WESTERN BUREAU: Economist and senator Dr André Haughton says the Government’s COVID-19 care packages will not be sufficient to address the fallout from the pandemic, should the spread of the deadly virus continue throughout the summer into the end...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) executive Wayne Cummings is calling for a date to be set for the reopening of the country’s tourism sector, as he believes that, by doing so, it will create the path leading to the...
Western Bureau: WITH THEIR services increasingly in demand as a result of the COVOD-19 pandemic, public health inspectors assigned to the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) are reportedly restive over the Government’s non-payment of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former education minister, the Reverend Ronald Thwaites, has thrown his support behind a suggestion by Lynton Weir, the principal of Old Harbour High School in St Catherine, to declare the summer holidays now and resume the next...
WESTERN BUREAU: Michael Paquin of Montreal, Canada, is among several tourists from the United States who have been left stranded in Jamaica after their flights were cancelled following the closure of its borders to incoming passengers because of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison says that unless normality is restored to the education sector and the local economy in short order, COVID-19 could cause an increase in the neglect and abuse of children as a result of...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the closure of schools rolls into its fourth week, administrators at two early childhood education institutions in western Jamaica are trying hard to keep students engaged while out of the classrooms. Schools were ordered closed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Defence attorneys in western Jamaica have expressed disappointment at not being exempted from the nightly COVID-19 curfew order declared by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday. The curfews, which commenced last night and which...
WESTERN BUREAU: Steve Morris, chief public health inspector for Westmoreland, says residents have expressed fear that the COVID-19 pandemic could severely impact their communities as persons who have recently returned to the island are not obeying...
WESTERN BUREAU: Half of the 100 COVID-19 isolation rooms needed by the Western Regional Health Authority have been identified in Montego Bay, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said. The Government is seeking to rent, in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The stigma that hoteliers may face from their properties housing COVID-19 isolation patients will be short-lived, Godfrey Dyer, chairman of the Tourism Enhancement Fund, has said. “Yes, it [the housing of recovering COVID-19...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHERIE-ANN ANDERSON, president of Jamaica Homesharing Association, whose members are listed on the Airbnb accommodation platform, has responded positively to an appeal from the Government for the private sector to help in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The closure of church buildings across the island in the wake of the global outbreak of COVID-19 is not a demonstration of a lack of faith, says the Reverend Marc A. Mullings, pastor of the Emanuel Chapel Church in Mt Salem, St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Teachers are being challenged in effectively delivering lessons to students through distance platforms amid the global COVID-19 pandemic because of unaffordable Internet data, Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers’...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is warning scavengers who sort and collect things for personal use or resale from the landfill at Retirement, in St. James, to stay away...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis has urged the citizens of St James to remain calm amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the city of Montego Bay and the wider St James would weather the passage of the novel coronavirus. Davis...
WESTERN BUREAU: Embattled People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the Whitehouse division, Valdence Gifford, who was arrested last year after he failed to pay over monies owed to pig farmers, has resigned, citing ill health. During last...
WESTERN BUREAU: A J$110-million water supply scheme may be an Independence Day gift for residents of Flower Hill in St James, says Audley Thompson, managing director of Rural Water Supply. The timeline for completing this project is seven months,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation and mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, has said that US President Donald Trump is out of touch with the realities as it relates to the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). “The great...
WESTERN BUREAU: The alarming incidence in gender-based violence has been blamed on the neglect of vulnerable men by women’s groups. That assessment has come from Professor Opal Palmer-Adisa, the director of the Institute for Gender and Development...
WESTERN BUREAU: Labour rows are clogging operations of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) and affecting its ability to properly discharge its duties in a timely and efficient manner, Labour and Social Security Minister Shahine Robinson has said...
WESTERN BUREAU: Robin Russell, chairman of the Montego Bay Chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, has admitted that Montego Bay’s housing crisis has come about as a result of the vast number of persons migrating from eastern, central...
