WESTERN BUREAU: Several business operators in Falmouth, Trelawny, appear to be flouting the Government’s ban on single-use plastic bags, which are widely being used in the market and supermarkets. At the start of the year, the Government imposed a...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government’s failure to invest in the investigative capacity of the police has hampered probes into violent crime, says Fitz Jackson, opposition spokesman on national security and chairman of the People’s National Party (PNP)....
WESTERN BUREAU: Johann Heaven, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of PROVEN Wealth, is warning that a global financial recession is on the horizon for the fiscal year 2020-2021, and he believes it could negatively impact Jamaica’s stock...
WESTERN BUREAU: Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Audley Shaw says the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is seeking to establish a buffer zone policy of a minimum of four miles between medicinal hemp sites and ganja farms to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The practice of federal Air Marshals travelling on passenger aircraft to and from Jamaica under a revised agreement between the Holness administration and the United States is not about signing over our sovereignty, National...
WESTERN BUREAU: Erick Vassell, acting regional director for the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), says if the nation’s two SOS Children’s Villages are forced to close their doors in the near future, it will severely impact the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Though hotelier Peter Morrow died recently in a plane crash in Miami, Florida, his presence was felt at Friday night’s RJRGLEANER 2019 Hospitality Jamaica Awards in Montego Bay, St James. Not only was there a moment of silence to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica will need a new international airport to meet the exponential growth and expansion of the tourism industry by 2030, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. He said that over the 10-year period 2020-2030, the country...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the stable political climate and the general Caribbean region are factors that should make the island a viable option for investors in tourism and other areas. Holness said Jamaica has a unique...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two new Karisma hotels will open in 2023. Speaking at the just-concluded Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference and Operations Summit in Montego Bay, Beccera said the 226-acre property has been divided into 10 lots, with four already...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sixty-four wards and 14 caregivers of the SOS Children’s Village in Barrett Town, St James, all escaped unharmed from a fire that broke out at the facility on Thursday night. The blaze was reportedly caused by an electrical shortage...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s government services and private sector must become more productive in order to be competitive, adopting the velocity of athletics star Usain Bolt in speeding up business transactions, says Prime Minister Andrew Holness....
WESTERN BUREAU: The dreams of university education for 15 youngsters affiliated with the SOS Children’s Villages in Jamaica may soon vanish if the welfare group’s international funding dries up, its interim national director has said. Ray Gregory...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 162 orphans being housed at the SOS Children’s Village in Barrett Town, St James, and Stony Hill, St Andrew, could find themselves homeless within two years unless approximately $266 million can be found to keep the two...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Office of the Children’s Advocate is supportive of a recent call by Professor Errol Morrison, the newly appointed Cadet Lieutenant Colonel for the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF), to be considered a major part of the country...
WESTERN BUREAU: Veteran educator and commandant of the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF), Errol Johnson, recently created history when he became the first person to serve as a brigadier in the 75-year-old organisation which is divided into seven...
WESTERN BUREAU: Employers and trade unionists are waiting with bated breath for next year’s opening of the Western Division of the Industrial Dispute Tribunal (IDT), which is expected to bring relief in settling job-related disagreements in that...
WESTERN BUREAU: The estranged wife of Omar Thompson, leader of the Assembly of Qahal Yahweh in Montego Bay, has corroborated allegations that the controversial religious sect has conducted child marriages as a probe by the police and welfare...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay business leaders whose sales are largely generated in Jamaican dollars say the continuous devaluation of the local currency against the US dollar is severely affecting their bottom line. Their claim comes against the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica should lead a regional challenge against the United States Government over its lax gun laws and porous ports that allow illegal arms to be trafficked throughout the Caribbean, the chief justice of The Cayman Islands has said...
WESTERN BUREAU: The planned US$8-million (J$1.1-billion) spend to build out a state-of-the-art healthcare information system will transform Jamaica’s outdated paper-based medical record infrastructure and expedite patient services, says Dr Delroy...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Stephen Barnhill, chairman of Doc’s Place Wellness Centre in Negril, Westmoreland, has said his company is ready to launch clinical trials for medical cannabis to determine the appropriate dosages in treating breast cancer and...
WESTERN BUREAU Mark Kerr-Jarrett, managing director of Barnett Limited, says if low-income housing solutions are to become affordable, the country’s utility companies must pay developers to have their infrastructures built out in housing schemes....
WESTERN BUREAU: Businesswoman Janet Silvera, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says housing solutions, which are supposed to be affordable, are being priced out of the reach of young professionals and low-income...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lambert Johnson, president of the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA), says justice is priceless and as such a US$8-million investment in acquiring lands to build a new St James Parish Court and western justice complex in Montego Bay...
