WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Major Antony Anderson says western Jamaica is to figure significantly in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) plans to increase its training capacity as part of a drive to triple the number of officers serving...
WESTERN BUREAU: IF Justice Minister Delroy Chuck were to have his way, Jamaican men would only be granted paternity leave if they are married or living with the mother of their children. The issue of paternity leave has triggered wide-scale public...
WESTERN BUREAU: Countries that continue to oppose the sexual and other rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community could be called on to justify their position on same-sex marriage over time, says Anthony Smellie, chief justice...
WESTERN BUREAU: T he Gleaner understands that current president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Omar Robinson has been tipped to head the soon-to-be established Tourism Graduate School on the Mona campus of The University of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ian Kerr, managing director of Sunset at the Palms Resorts, in Negril, Westmoreland, says Jamaica’s tourism industry is struggling to find suitable hospitality workers to fill vacancies at all levels in the industry. “I think we...
WESTERN BUREAU: A gay-rights group will head to court today to challenge a ruling by the Court of Appeal granting a stay to the interim order allowing them to host a controversial debate on same-sex marriage at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business and civic leaders in Westmoreland are hailing as a move in the right direction the recent promotion of the parish’s commanding officer, Gary McKenzie, who has been elevated from the rank of superintendent to that of senior...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 23-member elite quick-response squad is currently undergoing intense motorised and technical training as the St James police step up their efforts to protect citizens and members of the business community. Speaking at the launch...
Western Bureau: President of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Everett Brown, says the many and varied problems now plaguing Jamaica are very complex and will not be easy to fix. In fact, the pastor believes it will...
Western Bureau: Lloyd Parchment, the co-chairman of the Anti-Fraud Committee of the Jamaica Bankers Association, says fraudulent activities have emerged as an area of major concern in the island in recent years. “A lot of persons might not realise...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says poor and outdated colonial values and attitudes are hindering Jamaica’s efforts to achieve economic growth and prosperity. According to Phillips, the cultural experience of the plantation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gloria Henry, president of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), says the air-quality issue plaguing the Police Records Office in Kingston is threatening hundreds of jobs in that sector and could result in...
Western Bureau: Pastor Glen Samuels, president of the West Jamaica Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists says, the days of citizens sleeping with their doors open without getting killed are long gone, and that a return to those days will require...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister with responsibility for education Karl Samuda says the comprehensive education being offered at the Savanna-la-Mar Inclusive Infant Academy in Westmoreland, which caters to children with and without special needs, will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: Paula Llewellyn, the country’s chief prosecutor, wants the Ministry of Justice to exert the same amount of energy that is being used in its human trafficking and HIV public education campaigns in getting Jamaicans to serve the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke says that the passage of Hurricane Dorian, which battered The Bahamas, has pressed home the need for Jamaica and its Caribbean neighbours to establish fiscal responses to safeguard against natural...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Shaw, minister of investment, industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, says Jamaica has entered into a major partnership with the Harvard International Phytomedicine and Medical Cannabis Institute to settle the matter...
WESTERN BUREAU: Funding to spark recovery after hurricanes and other natural disasters in the Caribbean and Latin America could become a major feature of the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) suite of loans to countries in the region. Teresa...
Western Bureau: David Rosenblatt, regional economic adviser of the country department Caribbean Group, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), has said the Caribbean should begin to look at strengthening its domestic market instead of focusing on...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Racing Commission will be moving its operations to the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) in Kingston as part of ongoing steps to merge the three independent gaming regulators into one major regulatory state...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s mayor, Councillor Homer Davis, last week came down on the side of small ganja farmers, declaring that they cannot afford the high cost to acquire a cannabis licence and are basically being locked out of the lucrative...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lambert Johnson, president of the Cornwall Bar Association, has said that he has assembled a task force of defence attorneys to ensure that persons detained under the states of emergency (SOE) in St James, Hanover, and...
Western Bureau: Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake is lamenting that at any given time of the night, as many as 40 children can be found sleeping in prams or otherwise engaged at major entertainment events being staged across the island...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following last weekend’s child justice guidelines training seminar in Hanover, the Office of the Children’s Advocate believes that police personnel from across the county of Cornwall are now better equipped to treat the needs of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake has revealed that there are no child-friendly holding areas in any police station across the island. He made the revelation while speaking at an Office of the Children’s Advocate training...
