Western Bureau: The Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) failed to impress some residents during last Thursday’s town hall in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, as the exercise was described as ‘flawed’, especially in relation to effectively engaging...
Western Bureau: The resort town of Negril in Westmoreland is now much more pleasing to the eyes than in recent weeks, thanks to the collaborative effort of the local business community, and residents, who collected over 60 bags of garbage from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Wary of the violence in Westmoreland, neighbourhood watch groups in the parish, in collaboration with the Negril Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and religious and civic organisations, will be staging a peace march in the tourist...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck wants to make the making of a ‘will’ mandatory in Jamaica, saying it will minimise the many instances of relatives fighting over ‘dead left’, a factor that has led to many deadly family squabbles over...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT Winston Milton, who heads the Trelawny Police Division, has asked the Trelawny Municipal Corporation and private investors who are constructing hotels and housing schemes in the parish to consider...
WESTERN BUREAU: SYLVAN REID, the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate-caretaker for the Salt Spring division in St James Central, has accused key party members of selling out the previous general elections to the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENATOR JANICE Allen, the sole parliamentarian and political organiser for the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) in Region 6, has cautioned delegates and party supporters against becoming too relaxed in light of the latest...
Western Bureau: Newly installed Rotary Club of Montego Bay (RCMB) President Paul G. Thompson has pledged to carry on the club’s mission of spreading optimism in an increasingly hopeless world. Thompson said this would be accomplished through...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS PART of continuous efforts to convert the area into an iconic experience, Falmouth’s mayor, Collen Gager, is taking steps to stop pan chicken vendors from illegally disposing of food waste and spent cooking oil in Water Square....
WESTERN BUREAU: Tasheka Young, the deputy head girl at Savanna-la-Mar Primary School in Westmoreland, numbered among the top 10 students from the institution who were placed at their high school of choice based on the recent Primary Exit Profile (...
WESTERN BUREAU: MORE THAN US$12,000 in products and appliances were donated by the Florida, US-based Rotary Club of Miami Kendall to the children and caregivers at the SOS Children’s villages in Barrett Town, St James, and Stony Hill, St Andrew....
WESTERN BUREAU: Head of the Trelawny police division, deputy superintendent Winston Milton, has raised concern about an increase in the number of cases of rape of minors and incest in the division, and is urging persons to exercise more care for...
WESTERN BUREAU: JOY ROBERTS, the executive director for Jamaica Vacations in the Ministry of Tourism, has expressed concern that the foul odour emanating from the resort town of Falmouth, Trelawny, could hinder growth of the country’s cruise...
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...
