WESTERN BUREAU: There remains no clear statement from the top brass of the St James Fire Department despite promises of a swift investigation into the circumstances that led to major damage to a fireboat that was handed over two months ago. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: While thousands of people in western Jamaica treated yesterday’s Labour Day as just another public holiday, others put heart and muscle into transforming communities and improving lives. In Trelawny, numerous projects were...
WESTERN BUREAU:Gregory Roberts and Mario Morrison, the two men charged with the 2017 stabbing death of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, are to make their next appearance in the St James Circuit Court on January 22, when their case will undergo a plea and...
Christopher Thomas, Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the hygiene training they received last year, Lennox Wallace, the chief health inspector for St James, is unhappy with some of the food vendors operating in Montego Bay, who he says are not...
Education Minister Senator Ruel Reid wants attention to be given to the educational requirements of special needs students, including those with autism. Reid made the call during his keynote address at the opening ceremony for the Sam...
A police inspector this morning gave evidence at the murder trial of brothers O’Neil and O’Brian Walters that contradicted testimony by a civilian witness previously treated as hostile by the prosecution. The brothers are being tried...
WESTERN BUREAU: Junior Tourism Minister Bryanna Hylton wants young people to make full use of their access to technology, including smartphones and social media, as a means of boosting Jamaica’s tourism product and promoting the...
Outstanding psychiatric reports have again delayed the fit to plea hearing for Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the inmates charged with murder in relation to the 2014 death of St James construction worker Mario Deane. The long-awaited reports were...
WESTERN BUREAU:Ivan Anderson, managing director of the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) says that the design for the Montego Bay leg of Highway 2000 is now being drafted and he is expecting that work on...
Christopher Thomas - Gleaner WriterWESTERN BUREAU:The Hosanna Preparatory School in Montego Bay, St James, which has established its reputation for excellence in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) over the years, recently upheld that reputation...
Debra Ashman is not around to celebrate Mother's Day 2018, but her children will mark her legacy as they remember the challenges she faced and conquered to ensure that they have a good life.Despite becoming...
Director General of the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) Colonel Desmond Edwards has called for special courts to deal with corruption and financial crimes to help reduce the backlog of cases currently before the...
WESTERN BUREAU:Yoni Epstein, the immediate past president of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), believes that stakeholders in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector must do more to combat local cynicism about the...
Gregory Roberts and Mario Morrison, the two men charged with last year’s murder of Green Pond High School student, Shineka Gray, are to go on trial in the St James Circuit Court on November 19. The date was set by High Court judge Justice...
WESTERN BUREAU:Dr Christopher Tufton, the nation's minister of health, says that fixing the foundation on which the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) now sits is one of the issues that is poised to get priority attention in the ongoing restoration...
Dana Minto, the 50-year-old nurse who struck and killed two persons with her motor vehicle in Glendevon, St James, last November, had her bail extended until May 3 when she appeared in the St James Parish Court yesterday. Minto, who is charged with...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) said no cause has been identified for the fresh outbreak of noxious fumes at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James, which resurfaced earlier this week when the...
WESTERN BUREAU:Ewen Corrodus, the custos rotulorum of St James, believes that the current wave of crime affecting Jamaica is being fuelled by a sense of hopelessness stemming from the belief that nobody is listening to the cries of the nation's...
WESTERN BUREAU:Over the past month, the St James Health Department has seized and condemned $8 million worth of foodstuff that was exposed to floodwaters when sections of Montego Bay were inundated by heavy rains last November.Lennox Wallace, the...
Western Bureau:While the majority of Montego Bay's 36 registered food establishments have been reopened since the November rains, which caused flooding in the western city, the St James Health Department says that it remains dedicated to ensuring...
WESTERN BUREAU:Following the recent rains that resulted in major flooding in some sections of Montego Bay, Lennox Wallace, the chief public health inspector forSt James, is warning residents to be vigilant in their purchase of food items so as...
WESTERN BUREAU:Cancer patients in western Jamaica will now have closer treatment at hand with the latest technology on hand to treat the deadly disease, following the recent opening of a new cancer treatment centre at the Cornwall Regional Hospital...
WESTERN BUREAU:In the wake of the recent heavy rains, which triggered massive flooding in sections of Montego Bay, St James, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says that he will be having a meeting in January with the nation's municipal...
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has announced that $20 million has so far been identified to help with clean up and recovery in Montego Bay, St James following Wednesday's flood damage to sections of the western city.
WESTERN BUREAU:Tanikie McClarthy-Allen, director of public affairs and sustainability for J. Wray and Nephew, believes that the company's recent move to construct new stalls for 20 registered vendors at Scott's Cove in St Elizabeth will bring...
