WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is seeking to get more Jamaicans to embrace the culture of composting in a bid to reduce the volume of waste being transported to the country’s landfills. NSWMA Executive...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) community Christmas tree-lighting ceremony last Friday brought cheers among the residents of the seaside community of Cooke Street in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. The event, the residents...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister – West, has challenged public sector workers, especially those who work with municipal corporations, to take immediate steps to improve and empower themselves through...
WESTERN BUREAU: There was a swell of excitement among stakeholders in Westmoreland as they witnessed this year’s municipal Christmas Tree-lighting ceremony and entertainment package organised by the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) in...
Western Bureau Desmond McKenzie, the portfolio minister with responsibility for markets owned by municipal corporations across the island, has acknowledged that the Savanna-la-Mar Market in Westmoreland is in need of serious rehabilitation works,...
WESTERN BUREAU: VENDORS AND taxi operators have been given an indefinite extension to continue operating along Great George Street in Savanna-la-Mar, the Westmoreland parish capital, until otherwise advised by the police, the Transport Authority...
WESTERN BUREAU: BARRINGTON McINTOSH, his physically challenged common-law wife Winsome Jones, and their two children, are beaming with pride after being presented with a social housing solution valued at over $10 million by the Ministry of Local...
WESTERN BUREAU: Human rights lobby groups came under fire from senior cabinet minister Desmond McKenzie who has rebuked their continuous criticism of the Government’s response to crime surges, and for their support of criminals who are...
WESTERN BUREAU: The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is encouraging Jamaicans to purchase gift bags instead of traditional gift wraps and seek out recyclable options in planning events this Christmas season to reduce pollution....
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), has instructed the agency’s western arm to ensure that commercial operators make adequate garbage storage and removal arrangements to...
WESTERN BUREAU: FACED WITH a reported high prevalence of crime by repeat offenders, Westmoreland police commander Senior Superintendent (SSP) Wayne Josephs is urging parish judges to exercise greater discretion when granting bail to accused...
Starting next month, residents of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, areto begin their purging through a series of programmes designed to bring about social transformation and renewal. Saffrey Brown, project director for Project STAR, says Savanna-la-...
WESTERN BUREAU Dr Horace Chang, minister of national security, says the government is working to use, among other training institutions, the Caribbean Military Technical Training Institute (CMTTI) to remove the stigma and the burden placed on...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Workers Union (NWU) and the Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU) have embraced a recommendation from at least one private sector leader who has urged employers to pay their workers above the government-regulated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Moses Chybar, president of the Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI), is urging the country’s business owners to pay employees above the minimum wage in an effort to, among other things, encourage people to work and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he is delighted to know that foreign investors RCD Hotels group will be investing in housing for hotel workers to support and enhance their luxury hospitality brand. In welcoming the investment,...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT MINISTER Audley Shaw has declared that vendors now occupying shops in the People’s Arcade in Montego Bay, St James, will not be removed by the Government or the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC), on whose property the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay is to get a new, modern transportation centre to help ease the congestion on the streets and provide a more comfortable space for commuters to travel seamlessly. The disclosure was made by Transport Minister Audley...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police Wayne Josephs is assuring the Jamaican diaspora that Westmoreland and Jamaica in general is safe, this despite the high murder rate. SSP Josephs who has responsibility for the Westmoreland police...
WESTERN BUREAU: CARLENE AUSTIN-Williams, acting principal at the Petersfield Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, says the gift of a playground will help the approximately 700 students to be more disciplined and develop critical skills for...
Petersfield Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland has a new playground, thanks to the infusion of US$25,000 by the Joseph and Vera Douglas Family Foundation. The foundation, which was established eight years ago in partnership with the Lasco...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has laid the acts of violence and child sexual abuse at the feet of some mothers, whom he claims facilitate physical and sexual abuse of children in exchange for financial gains. Moore made that...
WESTERN BUREAU: The attorney representing Anna-Sharé Blake – more popularly known as reggae singer Sevana – said he and his client are satisfied with the sentence of $300,000 or two years’ imprisonment handed down by a judge on Thursday in a death-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The leader of a civic group in Westmoreland has scoffed at the possibility that the state of emergency (SOE) declared for Westmoreland will be effective in taming the crime beast running wild in the parish. “Jamaica’s state of...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRELAWNY business community has welcomed plans for the expansion of the 60-kilometre stretch from Montego Bay in St James to St Ann into a four-lane highway, but is appealing for supporting infrastructure in areas prone to...
