WESTERN BUREAU: Students from some 10 schools across western Jamaica were last week gifted with 1,000 reading books courtesy of the United States-based Blue World Travel Corporation, and the Montego Bay-based Sarah’s Children non-profit...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Parish Court judge Kaysha Grant-Pryce last Thursday expressed displeasure with a police investigating officer who failed to submit for forensic testing a weapon reportedly used to commit a murder. The judge nonetheless...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is continuing to double down in his defence of the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s [CRH] rehabilitation project, with his latest remarks suggesting that residents of western Jamaica should be...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of Finance has approved a ceiling budget of $4.3 billion during the 2023-24 financial year for Essex Valley Agriculture Development Project’s (EVADP) land irrigation development for Comma Pen, St Elizabeth. Petronia...
WESTERN BUREAU: Edmund Bartlett, the member of parliament for St James East Central, has announced that a gravity-feed water system will be opened in the Cedar Hill area in the constituency to provide water supply for several surrounding...
WESTERN BUREAU: Clinical psychologist Georgia Rose has warned that students who are pressured to secure high academic achievements, particularly without being given time to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, will be put at risk of...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR persons employed to the Sangster International Airport, who reportedly tried to smuggle 11.4 kilogrammes of cocaine into Canada last October, are booked to stand trial in the St James Parish Court on October 11, despite their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nurses and other staff members at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland got a much-needed reprieve over the weekend as they were treated to an outreach meal distribution, courtesy of the Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and...
