A second search to locate the body of police recruit, Rayandre Pike, who is believed to have drowned yesterday at Tranquility Bay in St Elizabeth, is expected to continue early this morning. Pike got pulled under the water while assisting a fellow...
The People’s National Party (PNP) has suffered another setback in its push to showcase the united front it may need to become the next government, following yesterday’s resignation from the party by three sitting councillors in the Western...
Detectives attached to the Area One Police Division have launched a probe into the death of a traffic policeman who is believed to have committed suicide by shooting himself at his home in Westgate Hills, St James, on Sunday morning. The deceased,...
FIREFIGHTERS FROM the Westmoreland Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade are expressing shock and disbelief at the gruesome discovery of the partially decomposed body of a colleague three days after he went missing. The body was found at a section...
Residents living in Bridgewater, Westmoreland, and Belfont district in St James, are remembering 38-year-old Lasharoo ‘Lenky’ Shaw, the popular pineapple farmer who was shot and killed at the conclusion of his party in Bridgewater on Sunday morning...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Hartley Perrin, the custos of Westmoreland, has expressed concerns about the extent of pay increases allocated to members of the political directorate. On Tuesday during the Parliamentary sitting, finance minister Dr Nigel...
Western Bureau: Following a scary week of bloodletting across western Jamaica, with 14 persons being shot and killed and one stabbed to death, deputy commander of the St James Police Division, Superintendent Eron Samuels, says several new...
WESTERN BUREAU: For the second time this week, crime-plagued St James was hit with a double murder as two men were killed in a brazen attack in Canaan district, in the Adelphi police district, yesterday morning. The killing of the two men is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Drivers employed to the Montego Bay Metro Bus Company (MBMBC), who have been on strike since last Tuesday, returned to work yesterday to satisfy the condition for a meeting between their union (NWU) and the management of the bus...
Western Bureau: It was a bloody 24 hours in western Jamaica between 5:00 p.m. on Sunday and 10:00 a.m. yesterday as marauding gunmen unleashed terror on the region with a double murder and a single murder in St James, and a double murder in Hanover...
WESTERN BUREAU: Commuters in western Jamaica who are being impacted by a withdrawal of service by drivers employed to the Montego Bay Metro Bus Company (MBMBC) are unlikely to see a resumption in service soon as the union representing the drivers...
WESTERN BUREAU: Based on preliminary investigations, the St. James police believe that robbery and extortion were the motives for Monday’s murder of a male food vendor and an exotic dancer, whose bodies were found on a bed in a small room inside...
WESTERN BUREAU: Bus drivers employed to the state-owned Montego Bay Metro Company (MBMC) withdrew their services in the Second City on Monday, to register concerns over deductions made from their salaries in light of a claim that they were overpaid...
WESTERN BUREAU: Workers at the Montego Bay Metro Bus Company (MBMBC) are expressing outrage about a potential move to reclaim sums after they were reportedly overpaid following a miscalculation in their retroactive salary payments after the public...
WESTERN BUREAU: While not seeking to negate the police’s crime-fighting role, Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Oral Heaven is urging the city’s business community to be more vigilant in seeking to protect themselves and their...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) ongoing recruitment drive not yielding the desired results, Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Josephs, commander for Westmoreland Police Division, wants the initiative to be taken into...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thieves preying on livestock and agricultural crops are threatening the viability of farms and have been causing some smaller farmers to rethink their continued investment in the sector Industry players agree that the situation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eric Samuels, the father of 24-year-old Avado ‘Pew Pew’ Samuels, who was shot and killed during a police operation in Mount Pleasant, Hanover, early Sunday morning, said his son was intoxicated and was not posing a threat to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: What started out as a joyous occasion for members of a Hanover family on Saturday afternoon ended in grief and mourning after gunmen invaded a wedding reception in Negril, Westmoreland, killing a woman and injuring two photographers...
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Superin-tendent Donovan McLaren, who oversees fire prevention at the St James Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, is appealing to the public to take extra precautions when lighting fires to avoid bushfires, which is...
WESTERN BUREAU: A two-year-old boy was killed on a Sunday evening trip to purchase ice cream in Clark’s Town, Trelawny, allegedly by a man locked in a dispute with the toddler’s stepfather. The deceased child has been identified as Adrian ‘Chubby’...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Metro Bus Company will be partnering with the Ministry of Education and several high schools across St James in an initiative aimed at minimising the incidence of student loitering in the city’s bus park and on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A gloomy atmosphere blanketed Roehampton in St James on Monday as residents continued to mourn Friday night’s murders of two brothers, who were slain by rampaging gunmen. The brothers, 51-year-old shopkeeper Dwight ‘Du Rammy’ Waite...
WESTERN BUREAU: The police in St James and Trelawny now have a new crime-fighting initiative in their toolbox – the Domestic Dispute Unit – dedicated to dealing with domestic issues which have sparked confrontations that led to murders in both...
WESTERN BUREAU: While Montego Bay, St James, is currently seeing a reduction in murders over the comparative period last year, recent incidents, including three killings since the start of the week, have caused concern for the cops. The St James...
