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...
WESTERN BUREAU: With close to 100 requests per month and mounting environmental concerns, the Westmoreland Public Health Services is moving to drive the final nail in the coffin of backyard burials in several communities. Steve Morris, chief public...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation has declared a 47-day amnesty to allow persons building residential homes without the relevant permits to seek approval without penalties. The amnesty period of April 15 to May 31 was declared...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland is suffering from a major brain drain as increasing numbers of highly trained and qualified workers are leaving the parish to live overseas or migrate to other regions of Jamaica, says a leading business lobbyist. Moses...
Western Bureau: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the St James Parish Court and the St James Parish Library will be relocated from the city centre of Montego Bay to Lower Bevin Avenue, where a one-stop facility to provide government services...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a not-so-diplomatic quip seemingly made in jest on Monday, Chinese Ambassador Tian Qi questioned the presence of a photograph of Ruel Reid, the embattled former education minister, hanging in the boardroom of the Montego Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for St James, has moved to assure members of the local Chinese business community in the western parish that the security forces are working to ensure that the commercial environment...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay business community is appealing to the Government and the leadership of the security forces to move swiftly to address the high levels of lawlessness in St James. “The chamber must once again appeal to the Government...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis says that millions of international visitors will now be able to recognise the name Jimmy Cliff with the renaming of Gloucester Avenue in Montego Bay to the Jimmy Cliff Boulevard, in honour of reggae...
WESTERN BUREAU: A rise in crime in Westmoreland is being blamed on an inadequate deployment of police and soldiers. Dr Wykeham McNeill, member of parliament for Western Westmoreland, has called for the ramping up of boots on the ground to drive...
