WESTERN BUREAU: Godfrey Dyer, chairman of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), has said he wants to see the country’s murder rate drop below 16 per 100,000 and is prepared to support extensions to the ongoing state of public emergency (SOE) in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) Chairman Godfrey Dyer says huge opportunities are on the horizon for Montego Bay as the new town centre bypass will create a gateway to new business prospects. Work on the Montego Bay bypass – a 15-...
Western Bureau: With an oversubscribed demand for commercial space in Montego Bay, stakeholders are bemoaning a decision by the Government to establish a sewage treatment pond in the Bogue area of the Second City. The P.J. Patterson-led...
Western Bureau: Peoples National Party (PNP) Vice-President Mikhail Phillips has issued an apology on behalf of the 81-year-old party for any acts of corruption the party, which is currently led by his father, Dr Peter Phillips, may have been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has threatened to pull the plug on the much-heralded Youth Summer Empowerment Programme should there be any semblance of malpractice in its implementation. “I have been getting complaints...
Western Bureau: Work is to resume on the new $78.4-million Westmoreland Municipal Corporation building in Savanna-la-Mar. Construction activities have been in limbo since last September when the Government terminated the contract of NR Diaram...
WESTERN BUREAU: It is taking too long for rank-and-file members to be promoted into the officer corps of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), says Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson. The police commissioner said the senior...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sunset Boulevard – the stretch of roadway from the Sangster International Airport roundabout to the Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in Montego Bay, St James – has been renamed the Godfrey Dyer Boulevard in honour of the renowned hotelier-...
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...
