Western Bureau Jamaica has been dubbed the ideal location for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) tourism with an estimated 15,000 new hotel rooms coming to the hospitality sector over the next seven years and an increase in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Burnt Savanna Foundation, whose principals are Jamaicans but are now living in New York, United States, has ensured that several students who display excellent academic abilities will be able to attend their respective high...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN HE won the gold medal in the men’s 400 metres final at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, yesterday, 21-year-old Antonio Watson of Duncans in Trelawny gave Jamaicans every reason to celebrate. This victory has...
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) Vice President Ian Hayles is claiming that internal polling data shows that the party’s parliamentary candidates in Westmoreland are ahead of their opposition rivals. “We are ahead by 20 percentage...
WESTERN BUREAU: Donovan White, director of tourism at the Jamaica Tourist Board, has asserted that business travel is on the rise and that Jamaica is rapidly bouncing back to pre-COVID-19 levels due to the anticipated growth of the country’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) Deputy General Secretary Wensworth Skeffery has placed delegates and supporters of the party on high alert for the possibility of both local government and parliamentary elections before the end of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Marlene Malahoo Forte, the minister of legal and constitutional affairs, has indicated that the resort town of Negril could become a municipality, with the development of a legal framework, ending its current status where it is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Regency Petroleum Limited (RPL), a relatively new company in the petroleum industry that went public on the Jamaica Stock Exchange last year, has opened its second petrol service station at Paradise in Westmoreland. Prior to now,...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENATOR MATTHEW Samuda says residents of Rose Heights, Rosemount Gardens and adjoining communities in St James Central will be able to access an adequate and stable supply of potable water. Samuda, the minister with responsibility...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says the National Housing Trust (NHT) has reached its limit and is now moving to forge partnerships to fulfil its mandate of constructing affordable housing solutions for contributors. Holness, who is...
WESTERN BUREAU: DARYL VAZ says he will be pushing amendments to the Road Traffic Act for harsher punishment against owners of animals that stray on to public roadways. Vaz, the minister of science, energy, telecommunications and transport, vowed to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) has demanded that the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) furnish housing development plans so entrepreneurs can strategise their business plans. But Bertel Moore, mayor...
WESTERN BUREAU: YOUTH ADVOCATE Conroy D. Thompson is an educator and author who is working tirelessly to better the lives of young people, by using his life stories to inspire their dreams to overcome life’s obstacles. As an educator and author,...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says real estate developers who enter into a contractual agreement under the National Housing Trust Guaranteed Purchase Programme should prepare to deliver affordable housing solutions for contributors or face strict...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a move designed to ensure there is sufficient time to discuss municipal matters, the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has voted to relegate the attendance of representatives of state agencies to a committee, where the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE AREA One Fraud Squad has launched a probe into allegations that the signatures of some councillors were forged on an altered copy of a document now being circulated. The original document was used to boot Danree Delancy from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore is now facing the heat from councillors in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), which has been engulfed in turmoil since three People’s National Party (PNP) representatives resigned from...
WESTERN BUREAU: JC Hutchinson, deputy leader of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), says there is currently no room in that party to accommodate the three Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) independent councillors, who recently resigned...
WESTERN BUREAU: POPULAR WESTMORELAND-based attorney-at-law Dionne Meyler-Barrett has thrown her hat into the political ring, declaring herself as “a better leader for a brighter future” for the People’s National Party (PNP) in Westmoreland Central...
WESTERN BUREAU: It would appear that behind-the-scenes efforts by former People’s National Party (PNP) Vice President Dr Karl Blythe, to get the three Westmoreland councillors who recently defected from the party to return to the fold, have not...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the many challenges now facing the island, including the worrisome scourge of crime and violence, Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore is urging Jamaicans to remain patriotic in the quest to build a better nation. Moore, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: The People’s National Party’s (PNP) Danree Delancy, who was recently ousted as the deputy mayor of Savanna-la Mar and replaced by independent councillor Ian Myles, has won the first round in his court battle to be reinstated to the...
Western Bureau: Dancehall star Teejay, the man with the hottest summer song, Drift, delighted Montego Bay, his hometown, on Emancipation Day, with a fabulous performance before some 12,000 fans at the annual Montego Bay Jerk Fest, at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oral Heaven, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), has urged youth leaders in St James to do more to engage their peers, many of whom are desperate for good role models, he says, as they seek a...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a bid to foster the better development of young people in western Jamaica, Gavin Anderson, the newly installed president of the Rotaract Club of Montego Bay, is pledging to help mentor high school boys in the region to keep them...
