WESTERN BUREAU: The Government is being challenged to ramp up its drive to expand science, technology, engineering. and mathematics (STEM) education as the country’s workforce now requires persons with those skill sets to advance along a path of...
WESTERN BUREAU: FORTY-TWO students of Cornwall College in Montego Bay, St James, are to benefit from scholarships valued at a combined $2 million, thanks to the school’s Class of 1985, who made the donation on Friday. Huntley Medley, immediate past...
Western Bureau: Tracy-Ann Pinnock, manager at the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College Diagnostic Centre Diagnostic and Early Intervention Centre says some 40 per cent of the 163 children in western Jamaica assessed as being at-risk are not in school, or...
WESTERN BUREAU: POLICE IN Westmoreland have removed in excess of 80 illegal motorcycles from the streets in the first two weeks of an initiative to stem the frequency of road fatalities in the parish. Since January 2022, the Road Safety Unit in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The police and Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) have yielded to the demands of disgruntled taxi operators for them to pick up and set down passengers along Great George Street in Savanna-la-Mar in an attempt to quell...
WESTERN BUREAU: A SENIOR citizen from Hudson Street, also known as ‘Russia’, in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, says initiatives such as Thursday’s peace march will not bring an end to the crime and violence plaguing her community and the wider...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, head of the Westmoreland Police Division, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is having a challenge finding suitable young people to enlist among its ranks. He shared that position while...
WESTERN BUREAU: Firebrand clergyman Bishop Oneil Russell has blasted members of the Church for shunning Thursday’s peace march in Savanna-la-Mar, which was organised as a rallying cry in opposition to the escalating incidence of crime and violence...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several staff members of the Social Development Commission (SDC) were recognised for their outstanding contributions to public service at an event to mark the organisation’s 85th anniversary celebrations recently. “All of these...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY’S entertainment offerings will be raised a notch with the introduction of a monthly themed event called MoBay Reggae Nights, starting this Sunday at Harmony Beach Park along Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in St James....
WESTERN BUREAU: PARTY PROMOTERS in Westmoreland are being warned that no permits will be issued in crime hotspots between now and the Christmas holidays. The caution has come from Senior Superintendent Wayne Josephs, whose Westmoreland Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several commuters were left stranded on Monday as taxi operators in Westmoreland withdrew their services in their continued pushback against the Public Order Reset campaign, claiming that they are being penalised for finding...
WESTERN BUREAU: PITFOUR DRIVE in St James has been renamed Glover Allen Drive, honouring the late former councillor for his contribution to the development of the Granville division and the wider parish. Allen, a justice of the peace, was born in...
WESTERN BUREAU: CONSTRUCTION FOR two separate two-storey buildings valued at $350 million to house the Little London Police Station and the Frome Police Station in Westmoreland has been halted over water table issues. This was revealed by Senior...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH 40 road fatalities resulting from motorcycle crashes in Westmoreland since the start of the year, the police have launched a new campaign to get unruly motorcyclists to fall in line and reduce the number of deadly accidents....
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBER OF Parliament (MP) George Wright has thrown his support behind disgruntled vendors who have pushed back against a police campaign to clamp down on illegal vending on the streets of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and to rid...
WESTERN BUREAU: PLAGUED BY traffic violations and illegal vending, the Westmoreland police and the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), in a collaborative move, will be seeking to retake control of the commercial district of Savanna-la-Mar...
WESTERN BUREAU: OLIVIA ‘BABSY’ Grange, minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, has given the assurance that the Government is committed to dealing with all outstanding issues of compensation to members of the Coral Gardens...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty-one-year-old Jermey Atkinson, a cattle farmer of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, was honoured as a community hero for his brave and selfless act in saving the life of 23-month-old Tafari Antonio Brown from a septic pit on...
WESTERN BUREAU: AMBASSADORS OF the Population and Housing Census were out in the field with their sensitisation programme, rallying citizens through schools and on the street corners in St James about the importance of the data-collection exercise...
WESTERN BUREAU: COMMANDING OFFICER for the Westmoreland Police Division, Senior Superintendent Wayne Joseph, says his detectives have managed to clear up 52 of the 121 murders recorded across the parish so far this year by arresting and prosecuting...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TOURISM Enhancement Fund (TEF) is to commence work on the $1-billion project geared towards developing Jimmy Cliff Boulevard, popularly known as the ‘Hip Strip’, in Montego Bay, into an iconic attraction, starting in April...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE DEVELOPMENT of a state-of-the-art beach park in the resort town of Negril is to be a big ticket item on the agenda for deliberation at a Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) board retreat slated for next month. Dr Carey Wallace,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Players in the tourism industry will boost the education sector with a technology-driven early childhood stimulation centre, which is to be built along the ‘Elegant Corridor’ in Montego Bay, St James. According to Tourism Minister...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MEDICAL Association of Jamaica (MAJ) says it stands ready to support its colleagues in western Jamaica who are preparing to make a formal request to the Ministry of Health and Wellness for the late Dr Henry ‘Marco’ Brown to be...
