WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the booming local tourism sector needs approximately J$40 billion in supplies from the agricultural sector to satisfy the demands of the millions of visitors who come to Jamaica annually....
Western Bureau: Eight senior personnel, including two agricultural specialists, are to be employed to the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) to boost its capacity. The announcement was made by Minister of State in the ministry of Industry,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says that by the end of the year, regulations will be in place for investors in the local medical cannabis trade to comfortably access...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Danree Delancy, the deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland, has described as shameful and disgraceful the manner in which the establishment of a fire substation, which the Japanese government is funding in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montpelier, St James base will become the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) western regional headquarters and training facility when it gets up and running under the leadership of the Second Battalion, Jamaica Regiment. This was...
WESTERN BUREAU: While noting that there is no proof to support his assertion, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is of the view that human traffickers could be involved in the number of children, especially girls, who have been murdered...
WESTERN BUREAU: With additional security assets being deployed and investments being made in boosting accommodation for the security forces in western Jamaica, the national security minister Dr Horace Chang is expressing confidence in containing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says small-scale Jamaican property owners who provide hospitality services in the country’s tourism sector will not be required to pay a tax for their properties, as has been the case for players in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar Bertel Moore is unhappy with the Jamaica Fire Brigade and the Ministry of Local Government because of their decision to reassign two of four fire trucks and two of three ambulances outside the parish, which...
Western Bureau: Deputy Superintendent of Police Gasford Cole, the commanding officer for Westmoreland, told last Thursday’s monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation that he was quite pleased with the impact the ongoing state of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s first artisan village, under construction in Falmouth, Trelawny, is 75 per cent complete and on track to becoming operational for the upcoming 2019-2020 winter tourist season, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said. The...
Western Bureau: Montego Bay’s mayor, Councillor Homer Davis, who is also chairman of the St James Municipal Corporation, says construction of the much-anticipated closed Harbour Beach Park project on Montego Bay’s waterfront will commence today. “...
Western Bureau: As the police in St James struggle to clamp down on lawlessness, residents have been jostling for spaces in gated communities as they try to avoid the wave of crime and violence sweeping the northwestern parish, a Jamaica National...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s mayor, Homer Davis, has reignited calls for another state of public emergency for the parish of St James, saying that three months after the year-old measure expired, there has been a re-emergence of deep fear among...
WESTERN BUREAU: Michael McMorris, chairman of the Victoria Mutual Group, says the Government’s failure to abolish distortionary, temporary asset taxes in the same manner it did for non-financial businesses has forced financial institutions to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Accompong Town in St Elizabeth are ready to begin planting marijuana legally under a special government pilot project, J.C. Hutchinson, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and...
WESTERN BUREAU: If the nation integrates gender in education, it will produce a better return on investment and better educational outcomes. That’s the word from Dr Leith Dunn, head of the Institute of Gender and Development Studies at The...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an apparent swipe at the head of Jamaica’s most powerful business lobby, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke yesterday led a spirited defence of the central bank’s foreign exchange management, batting aside criticism of currency...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Leith Dunn, senior lecturer and head of the Institute of Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, Mona, says she is not in support of the recommendation that parents who abuse or abandon their children...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Grace McLean, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, says Jamaica is at a point that it can seriously impact policy changes to achieve gender equality in education. “I believe, however...
Western Bureau: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is supporting the Rastafarian community’s view that it would be an injustice to demand that they pay the exorbitant fees to get a medical cannabis licence, being the true pioneers in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Starting September, teachers who administer corporal punishment in local schools will face serious consequences, says Alando Terrelonge, minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Youth and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Alando Terrelonge, minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, says that legislation is in the pipeline for parents who abuse and abandon their children to automatically lose their parental rights once the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rosalee Gage-Grey, the chief executive officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), says the welfare of children in state care is improving with a sharp decline in incidents of abuse. “We have a critical-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says sweeping changes are coming to bring an end to the vexed issue of seasonal and contractual work arrangements in the tourism sector, as the Government moves to professionalise the industry and...
