WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) office complex in Lucea has been declared environmentally unsafe following checks by safety officers from the health ministry. The reports appear to confirm fears by staff that incidences of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has issued a stern warning to justices of the peace (JP) against getting involved in the corruption he says is taking place even on the outside of tax offices across the island. Chuck, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: A request from permanent secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Marsha Henry-Martin, sent to the chief executive officers in municipal corporations across the island, for a list of roads to be...
WESTERN BUREAU Acting Chief Public Health Inspector within the Hanover Health Department (HHD), Fritz Francis, has expressed concern about some of the establishments from which food is being served within the parish, describing them as “uncertified...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lieutenant Governor Anthony Cameron, who oversees 24 Kiwanis service clubs in the county of Cornwall, says the service clubs, which formerly served as the backbone of several communities across Jamaica, are now registering a decline...
Western Bureau: There are now fears in official circles that a parcel of land in the Orchard Housing Scheme in Hopewell, Hanover, which was earmarked for the construction of a fire station, could become the target of squatters if it remains unused...
Western Bureau: Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the commander for Hanover police, shocked councillors at Thursday’s monthly meeting of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) when she revealed that a 15-year-old boy from the parish is now in custody...
Western Bureau The newly constructed and long-awaited Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Office, located in Lucea, Hanover, was officially opened on Wednesday, December 14, by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr....
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Municipal Corporation (HMC) has announced that it will be making a number of moves to increase its intake of revenue over the coming months. In July 2020, the HMC made a similar announcement that it would be stepping up...
WESTERN BUREAU: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 will mark the 138th anniversary of the birth of Jamaica’s first prime minister and national hero, Sir Alexander Bustamante, and the Hanover office of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), in...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE 40 residents at the Hanover Infirmary, made up of 18 females and 22 males, will be gifted with a new kitchen in a few weeks. The original kitchen at the facility was ordered closed by the Hanover Health Department, because of...
WESTERN BUREAU: PLANS TO establish a police post in the growing Eastern Hanover town of Hopewell took a positive turn at the January monthly meeting of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), when the conditions in the lease agreement were...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH fatal accidents across the island being a topic for discussion in all circles, and to eradicate danger for road users, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has made an appeal to the National Solid Waste Management Authority...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE DEADLINE for completion of refurbishing work on the meats, fruits and vegetable market in Hopewell, Hanover, has missed its end of December deadline, while incurring an additional $2 million over its original budget. Following a...
WESTERN BUREAU: NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang says that the Government is willing to use the states of public emergency (SOEs) as a crime-solving tool, despite the fact the People’s National Party (PNP) has refused to support it....
WESTERN BUREAU: Rev Glenroy Clarke, the chairman of the board of governors of Rusea’s High School in Lucea, Hanover, says that alumni associations are the greatest asset to educational institutions, as no amount of government subvention could cover...
WESTERN BUREAU: The second phase of the estimated $20 million refurbishing of the meat, fruits and vegetable market in Hopewell, Hanover, is now on in earnest in the aftermath of Sunday’s demolition of the existing fruits and vegetable section of...
Western Bureau: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has asked the parish’s health department to take immediate steps to close down a rehabilitation centre, which is said to be operating illegally in the Chigwell and Rejoin areas of Hanover...
Western Bureau: Hanover, which was the last parish to record a case of the coronavirus in Jamaica, took a direct hit yesterday as the family court in the parish had to be closed because of positive COVID-19 cases at the facility. A press release...
Western Bureau: Agriculture Minister Floyd Green will be taking his islandwide tour series, dubbed ‘Virtual Listening Tour,’ to the parish of Hanover this Friday, where he will be engaging farmers, fisherfolk and other stakeholders about his...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite being the only parish without a case of COVID-19, stakeholders in Hanover remain vigilant as it relates to testing for the deadly respiratory virus, with the Hanover Health Department (HHD) and other stakeholder...
WESTERN BUREAU: With a significant number of the nation’s adult population laid off from their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 containment effort, some impacted residents in Hanover are taking to agriculture, through backyard gardening, to use up...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE OFFICIALS in some parishes are bemoaning the cavalier attitude of residents to the COVID-19 protocol, the authorities in Hanover are heaping praise on residents of the parish as it relates to quarantine and other health...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in Hanover say last week’s three-day dengue clean-up project in the western parish was a major success, as tons of garbage were removed from drains as well as debushing in the Sandy Bay community, which was the main...
Western Bureau: Custos of Hanover David Stair says the 37 newly commissioned justices of the peace (JPs) in that parish should seek to serve their communities and the parish with distinction, noting that the people of the western parish deserves...
