Published:Saturday | May 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:Criminals continued their deadly trek through the once-quiet parish of Hanover last Friday, leaving a 45-year-old mother and her 24-year-old son dead in their wake.Juliet Grant and her son, Romario Daley, became murder victims 30 and...
Published:Thursday | May 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:Ten men described as major players in the three criminal gangs operating in Hanover are now in custody after they were arrested in the targeted raids the police have been conducting in the main crime hotspots in the eastern part of...
Published:Thursday | May 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:Mayor of Lucea Sheridan Samuels is affixing a divine intervention to the fact that Hanover escaped the full fury of the recent flood rains, which devastated several parishes across the island last week.A relieved Samuels, who is also...
Published:Thursday | May 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:The decision by residents of Big Well Lane in Lucea, Hanover, to block the main road leading into their community in the aftermath of a drive-by shooting, which left five persons injured, is now in its second month and is now proving...
Published:Thursday | April 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:More than 2,000 residents from several adjoining communities in eastern Hanover have been looking up to the skies with glee and thankfulness for the rains over the last week. Their scrounging around for the precious commodity - water...
Published:Wednesday | April 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:The Hanover Health Department is again expressing concern about the water quality in the parish's minor supply systems, which it says continues to show a lack of proper chlorination, among other health concerns.Speaking at the recent...
Published:Friday | April 21, 2017 | 1:28 PMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:The Hanover Municipal Corporation has lodged a formal complaint to the top leadership of the Hanover police over allegation that a sergeant assigned to the division has been using social media to spread disparaging remarks about...
Published:Tuesday | April 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western BureauThe unhealthy and unsanitary state of the lock-up at the Lucea Police Station, in Hanover, is now a source of much concern and has now attracted the attention of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HPC).Devon Brown, the Councillor for...
Published:Tuesday | April 18, 2017 | 11:27 AMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:Lucea's mayor, Councillor Sheridan Samuels, wants the authorities to stop categorising permits that are granted to hold wakes as amusement licences, as, according to him, there is no amusement in death.Samuels' concern comes against...
Published:Tuesday | April 18, 2017 | 11:58 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:The legitimacy of the current executive of the Hanover Parish Development Committee (PDC) is being questioned, as the group's annual general meeting (AGM) is said to be more than one year overdue.The matter of the committee's failure...
Published:Friday | April 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:With more than 200 bush fires and 16 houses going up in flames in Hanover in the first three months of 2017, the parish's fire brigade, with its limited resources, is facing a challenge.This year's figure represents a 100 per cent...
Published:Monday | April 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:The J$10-million road-rehabilitation project, which is now taking place along the Haughton Grove to Miles Town roadway in Hanover, is said to be approximately 40 per cent complete.Some 5,000 square metres of roadway will be...
Published:Saturday | March 25, 2017 | 2:10 PMBryan Miller
Murder and mayhem continued in the once quiet parish of Hanover last Friday night as gunmen struck, leaving three persons dead.This moved the number of murders in the parish since the start of this year to 21, a staggering increase compared to the...
Published:Friday | March 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:With the third of four planned mobile property tax collection initiatives now on in the parish, Hanover is once again poised to extend its noble tradition as one of the top parishes when it comes to compliance.Following Friday's stop...
Published:Sunday | February 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:Some 21 early-childhood practitioners from six early-childhood institutions in Hanover were given a refresher session in the 'Success by Six' programme at the Sandy Bay Basic School last week.The session was funded by the Tryall Fund...
Published:Friday | February 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:Despite the fact that approval was granted for him to get a vehicle, Councillor Sheridan Samuels, the mayor of Lucea, has decided against taking up the offer, asking instead that a vehicle be given to the enforcement arm of the...
Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:With criminal activities, especially shootings, now competing with neighbouring St James for the top spot on crime in western Jamaica, Easton Edwards, the councillor for the Lucea division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation, is...
Published:Monday | January 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has called for persons not to accept the position of justice of the peace (JP) for the sake of the title alone, but instead, they should be prepared to give service above self in...
Published:Friday | January 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:Approximately 200 persons from across Hanover were in attendance on Friday for the fourth Wellness Fair of the Hanover Poor Relief Department, which was staged in collaboration with the Hanover Homelessness Committee.The activities...
Published:Friday | January 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:As was the case with the lock-up at the Freeport Police Station, in Montego Bay, St James, recently, health officials in Hanover have declared the parish's main lock-up in Lucea to be in an unsatisfactory condition and have ordered...
Published:Friday | January 20, 2017 | 3:18 PMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:Transport Minister Mike Henry, personnel from his ministry, the Island Traffic Authority, and the police met with several motorcycle operators in Orange Bay, Hanover, last week as part of an outreach programme aimed at encouraging...
Published:Monday | January 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:With the lock-up at the Freeport Police Station, in Montego Bay, St James, closed because of health concerns, councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation want the Hanover Health Department to carry out checks to determine the...
Published:Tuesday | December 27, 2016 | 1:11 PMBryan Miller
WESTERN BUREAU:With a view of dispelling the argument that the Church is doing nothing to assist in eradicating crime from the Jamaican landscape, a handful of Christian believers took to the streets in Green Island, western Hanover last Friday, in...
Published:Sunday | December 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMBryan Miller
Councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation, on December 15, approved an expenditure of $600,000 to go towards the municipal Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and children's treat, which is set for today in the parish capital, Lucea.Chief...
Published:Thursday | December 15, 2016 | 5:36 PMBryan Miller
Western Bureau:The crime situation in the parish of Hanover, in general, and the capital town of Lucea, in particular, was the subject of the opening remarks of chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporation and Mayor of Lucea Sherridan Samuels as he...
