WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson is not pleased with the slow pace at which the Government is rolling out the JamaicaEye programme, which is expected to become one of the critical tools in the effort to blunt the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has welcomed the steps being taken to enact the new Firearms Act, as he strongly believes this major crime-fighting tool will help to keep convicted killers in prison for...
WESTERN BUREAU: A scholarship in the name of a much-revered teacher of mathematics at Cornwall College, in Montego Bay, the late Bevill St. Elmo De Bruin was launched by the school’s old boys’ association (CCOBA) on Monday as part of efforts to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The educational landscape in Montego Bay now has one more high school, the Monsignor Gladstone Wilson College for Boys, which opened its doors to the first cohort of students on Monday, bringing the Roman Catholic Church outreach...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SOME community leaders have welcomed the empowerment that could come by way of Everald Warmington’s proposal for community stakeholders to liaise directly with him about issues involving roads under the purview of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT WAS not a happy first day for the staff and students at the Howard Cooke Primary School in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday, as they struggled to come to grips with the death of vice-principal Veronica Headley Jennings, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington is urging the country’s parliamentarians to adopt the approach being taken by independent Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright to the management of their constituencies. Wright, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an apparent barb aimed at the Opposition, de facto Works Minister Everald Warmington says Westmoreland is no longer a forgotten parish since the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) took the reins of government in 2020. Warmington, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PARENTS of two children from St James Southern who excelled academically in the last school year, will have one less back-to-school burden to face, as their children were presented with new laptops by Member of Parliament Homer...
WESTERN BUREAU: While some retired teachers are willing to return to the classroom to fill the void created by migrating educators, others have decided to ignore the call. According to Ceila Grant-Francis, president of the Jamaica Retired Teachers...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Peter Bunting, leader of opposition business in the Senate, said many Jamaicans are being driven to seek out better opportunities overseas because of their unsatisfactory standard of living locally. Bunting noted that this...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in the deep-rural community of Catadupa, St James are now fully connected to the rest of the world, thanks to the Universal Service Fund (USF), which has created a Wi-Fi hotspot in their community, allowing them to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Approximately six months before local government elections are due, the Opposition People’s National Party is reporting that its 30 candidates in Manchester and St Elizabeth are ready to take control of those municipal corporations...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some 10,000 students from the Westmoreland Western constituency are slated to benefit from a $3- million investment in their education through an ongoing initiative spearheaded by People’s National Party (PNP) chairman Ian Hayles...
WESTERN BUREAU: Even as negotiations continue between the teachers and the Government over a new wage and fringe benefits package for the teachers, Keisha Hayle, principal of Padmore Primary School in St Andrew, is calling for an upward...
WESTERN BUREAU: Industrial arts students and teachers from some eight high schools across the island have been tasked by the education ministry to manufacture furniture to meet demand ahead of the reopening of schools. Leighton Johnson – principal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Renowned St James-based People’s National Party (PNP) activist, O. Dave Allen, says Lisa Hanna’s pending departure from representational politics will leave an irreplaceable void in the Mark Golding-led party, which is seeking to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Education Minister Fayval Williams says the proposed licensing regime for teachers under the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill is not different from what obtains in many other countries to which Jamaican educators are migrating in...
WESTERN BUREAU: LA SONJA Harrison, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), says the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill, which is under review by a joint select committee of Parliament, has contributed to some of...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the nation’s teachers continue to buckle under the strain of the issues affecting the education sector, the country’s premier teachers’ union, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is urging the teachers not to lose focus....
WESTERN BUREAU: The business process outsourcing (BPO) landscape in Montego Bay, St James, has been expanded by an additional 17,000 square feet of office space, thanks to the expansion of Omni Nearshore, based at Barnett Tech Park in the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has welcomed the move by the Ministry of Education to give school boards the green light to recruit retired educators to fill vacancies in schools that are short-staffed. But the outgoing...
WESTEN BUREAU: In a move designed to grow the sector and provide additional jobs, the Government is now looking at expanding the work-from-home policy in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, which could result in some 30 per cent of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has said Jamaica is in need of more visionaries and entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks towards advancing the country’s development agenda. Holness said he has admired with great interest the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HAVING proven its resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is on target to employing 75,000 persons by 2025. Gloria Henry, vice-president of BPO and logistics at the Port Authority of...
