Western Bureau: Sexual offences against girls under 16 have become a major concern in Westmoreland because of the alarming numbers recorded since the start of the year, says Superintendent Gary McKenzie, who heads that parish’s police division....
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Science, Energy, and Technology Fayval Williams is calling for greater awareness in the use of propane in motor vehicles as the country continue its search to come up with cleaner fuel alternatives for the transportation...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) is to transform the Cornwall Automotive School in Flankers, St James, into a 500-man residential training facility for young men from western Jamaica. While not giving any timetable for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says that Jamaica’s continued failure to rise from the Tier 2 ranking in the United States’ 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report is due to deep-seated cultural issues and a lack of adequate...
Western Bureau: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says a tourism graduate school to facilitate the training of top-level managers will become operational in 2020. He said hotels operating in Montego Bay will serve as the laboratory. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry is urging lawmakers to take another look at the new Road Traffic Act with a view to making clear how and when traffic cops should use lethal and non-lethal weapons in their interactions with...
WESTERN BUREAU: With deaths and injuries resulting from jet-ski related accidents still fresh in many minds, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) is standing resolute in its opposition to the lifting of the four-year-old ban on the...
Western Bureau: Omar Robinson, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), is concerned that despite an influx of close to 2.5 million stopover visitors in 2018, smaller properties are still not cashing in on the nation’s...
Western Bureau: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says Lucea, the capital of Hanover which sits on a fantastic harbour 25 miles west of Montego Bay, is to be re-imaged and developed as a tourism destination. “Lucea is the next area for re-imaging....
Western Bureau: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has given a thumbs down to a proposal to name the new Mackfield to Ferris main road for Jamaica’s first native governor general, Sir Clifford Campbell, arguing instead for late...
Western Bureau: Owners and operators of Airbnb properties should be asked to pay hotel accommodation tax, according to Omar Robinson, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), who is arguing that that’s the case in other...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says he is hoping that construction of the promised court complex which he wants to see established in Montego Bay, St James, to serve the entire western region will commence next year. Chuck said he...
WESTERN BUREAU: The call to increase the $1-million cap on claims brought to the parish courts to alleviate problems faced by some litigants in accessing the Kingston-based Supreme Court has won the support of Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. In a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Removing medical doctors from the list of witnesses in wounding and assault cases could help to speed up some trials, says Chief Justice Bryan Sykes. Speaking at yesterday’s opening ceremony for the Judiciary of Jamaica National...
Damia Dawes-Monthrope, a director of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is recommending that the existing $1-million cap on claims brought to the parish court be increased to $5 million to alleviate the problems litigants face when...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore says the inactivity of the National Contracts Commission (NCC) and a typographical error in a letter from the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development detailing the value of the...
Western Bureau: The Westmoreland Municipality Corporation (WMC) on Thursday voted to give persons building residential homes without the relevant permits, a two-month extension on an amnesty which was previously granted. This means they will now...
Western Bureau: Since a state of emergency was declared in Westmoreland on April 30, there have been four murders in the parish, Carlos Russell, the deputy superintendent of police with responsibility for operations in the Westmoreland Police...
Western Bureau: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore says the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) plans to take action unless the National Works Agency (NWA) takes steps within the next 30 days to repair the Paradise Bridge in Ferris, which has...
Western Bureau: Agriculture Minister Audley Shaw has mandated the Coconut Industry Board to spend a portion of the $10 billion it has in the bank to expand the industry to meet international demands for coconut and its by-products. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: MBJ Airports Limited, the consortium operating the Montego Bay-based Sangster International Airport in St James, is now hunting investors to build a 160-room hotel targeting business tourists. Sharon Hislop-Holt, manager of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition leader Dr Peter Phillips is urging Comrades who might have turned their backs on the People’s National Party (PNP) to return to the fold ahead of the next general election, which is constitutionally due by February 2021,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga was one of three stalwarts who were honoured by the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) for their contribution to early childhood development in Jamaica. The other awardees were Professor...
Western Bureau: Alando Terrelonge, state minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, is calling on parents, early childhood practitioners, and other caregivers to apply discipline with love to the children in their care, saying...
WESTERN BUREAU: Domestic airlines will return to the Jamaican skies within the next two months as the Government is now fine-tuning deals with two airlines to offer flying services, which will add another dimension to local travel. According to...
