WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is being urged by his opposition counterpart, Senator Janice Allen, to use some of the revenue generated from the industry to address the country’s crime issues and make Jamaica safer and more...
WESTERN BUREAU: HOWARD COOKE Primary School in St James has received a donation of concrete mixture valued at more than $1.5 million from Jamaica Pre-Mix Limited to finish the construction of three of the five classrooms it is currently building....
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SUPPORT for Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration has declined, a former deputy general secretary of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has revealed that voters aren’t yet...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hartley Perrin, custos of Westmoreland, is insistent that the duties of justices of the peace (JPs) should not be terminated if and when Jamaica removes the British monarch as head of state. “I am not worried or in anyway perturbed...
WESTERN BUREAU WITH TEMPERATURES sometimes 32 degrees Celsius, the Siloah Civic Organisation and the Guardian Life Foundation donated 40 industrial ceiling fans to the Siloah Primary School in St Elizabeth to help keep the pupils and instructors...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHULETTE COX, president of Jamaica Promotion Corporation (JAMPRO), will deliver the keynote address at the fourth annual staging of the Caribbean’s largest trade show on beauty and wellness, Jamaica International Beauty Expo (JIBE...
WESTERN BUREAU: Arrian Patman, a 25-year-old with a bachelor’s degree in diagnostic imaging – radiography from The University of the West Indies, was crowned Miss Westmoreland Festival Queen 2023 on Sunday night. The radiographer, who is...
WESTERN BUREAU: ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Delford Morgan does not believe that any change should be made to Jamaica’s law that allows a member of parliament (MP) to also serve as the country’s head of state. Morgan, a panellist at a town hall meeting which...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE OVERSEAS Examination Commission (OEC) has labelled the stealing of a filing cabinet with Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Math Paper 1 written papers from St James High School as “a shameful act” and has expressed concern...
WESTERN BUREAU: EVEN THOUGH the coronavirus is no longer regarded as a global emergency, has noted that Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health at the Westmoreland Health Services (WHS), people who are infected with the virus are still dying...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE Not endorsing Ian Hayles, the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation’s (WMC) political director, Bertel Moore, has said that he would never discredit himself or his beloved People’s National Party (PNP) by defecting to the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBERS OF the teaching profession are being urged by academics at Sam Sharpe Teachers College (SSTC) in Montego Bay to adopt chatbots like ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to deliver lessons more...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mark Smith, principal of Munro College, will be declared president-elect during the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) 59th annual conference, which will be held at the Royalton Hotel in Negril from August 21–23. He will...
WESTERN BUREAU Leading industrial hardware firm National Supply, in partnership with DeWalt Tools, has strengthened its corporate social commitment with the Montego Bay Boys and Girls’ Club (MBBGC) through the donation of $1.2 million to support...
WESTERN BUREAU: Under the distinguished patronage of businessman Dennis Hawthorn of Dennis Shipping, a new Festival Queen will be crowned in Westmoreland on Father’s Day, June 18, from a field of 10 young, able, deferential and artistic women. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Kiwanis Club of Westmoreland Capital has spent about $600,000 to build a chicken coop at the Clifton Boys’ Home in Darliston, which it hopes will enhance life skills and experience in business management in the agriculture...
WESTERN BUREAU: ORAIN RUDDOCK, a substance abuse officer with the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) in Westmoreland, says his organisation has launched an intervention programme in the parish to snuff out widespread vaping among students. “The...
WESTERN BUREAU: The just over 500 students at the New Hope Primary and Junior High School, in Westmoreland, are now enjoying much more pleasant environs, thanks to the work that was done on the school and its surroundings by the Westmoreland...
WESTERN BUREAU: The plan to transform the 85-year-old Workers Park in Frome, Westmoreland, into a tourist attraction could become a reality if the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) can be convinced that it is a potentially sustainable venture. Dr...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cebert McFarlane, councillor in the People’s National Party-controlled Westmoreland Municipal Corporation, does not believe that the social intervention measures being used by state agencies in Hudson Street (popularly called ‘...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eighty-five years after the civil unrest in Frome, Westmoreland, which reportedly sparked the birth of the trade union movement in Jamaica, and the establishment of a minimum wage framework, some cane-farmers in the old sugar belt...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is calling for the establishment of common legislation and a regional migration policy to address the flow of people travelling across the CARICOM region. It is anticipated that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior District Officer Norris Mitchell, of the Westmoreland division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, is pleading for the public to stop abusing the fire service by making hoax calls as, according to him, the practice is creating...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Rudolph Uter, the minority leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caucus in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), is contemplating court action against the National Water Commission over the dilapidated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hair, skin, fashion, and wellness are poised to take centrestage in western Jamaica on the weekend of June 23-25 with the staging of the 2023 edition of the annual Jamaica International Beauty Expo (JIBS), which will be held at the...
