WESTERN BUREAU: PRINCIPALS AND deans of discipline from various high schools across St James carried out an operation in Montego Bay, St James, on Thursday morning to address the problem of students who are loitering in the city. The exercise...
An ATM, which is believed to have contained more than $8 million, was discovered destroyed on the compound of the Darliston Great House in Westmoreland on Thursday, several hours after a group of heavily armed men stole it from a service station in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two men were shot dead and another wounded at a car wash and bar in the community of Tucker in St James on Thursday afternoon. The deceased have been identified as 29-year-old David Elliott, otherwise called ‘Pogga’, and 30-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police investigators have theorised that a driver seen performing various stunts at the Fairview Shopping Complex in Montego Bay in the wee hours of Friday morning was using the noise from the vehicle’s engine to distract security...
WESTERN BUREAU: Popular disc jockey DJ Kentucky has been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl at his St James home on August 18, 2022. The DJ, whose given name is Shawn Stewart, was charged by detectives attached to Centre for the Investigation of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two students have been charged as the police ramp up their anti-gang campaign within Westmoreland schools following an incident last week in which a male student of Godfrey Stewart High was allegedly assaulted and robbed by other...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER police have launched a manhunt for a suspect who reportedly shot his uncle to death with an illegal firearm in a land dispute at their home in Forest district earlier last week. The deceased has been identified as 51-...
An armed man was shot dead by the police during a reported robbery at a supermarket in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, on Sunday morning. The deceased has been identified as 32-year-old Dwight Devon McKenzie, of a Burnt Savannah address in...
WESTERN BUREAU: A grief-stricken Sandrene Lewis is trying to come to grips with the tragic death of her common-law-husband, Gregory Jones, who fell from a roof to his death while working on a construction site last Friday. Jones, a 43-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hoteliers, visitors, and locals in Negril, Westmoreland, have expressed shock over the theft of three solar lights that were installed to brighten the surroundings at a controversial $12-million sign installed in Negril four months...
WESTERN BUREAU: Having resorted the expensive option of hiring a backhoe to dig a soakaway pit as they could not find anyone willing to do the task manually, the owners of a property in Chester Castle, Hanover, are now lamenting the scores of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Scores of people have been descending on a property in Chester Castle, Hanover, after news began to swirl that deposits of what residents believe to be gold had been located while digging a pit. Ralston Cole, who occupies the...
Superintendent Wayne Josephs, the commanding officer in charge of the Westmoreland Police Division, has made an appeal to officers in need of counselling or assistance with personal issues to seek help through mechanisms within the force. Josephs...
The police in St James have confirmed that a suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the death of a man from Britain who was shot dead by armed men at a guesthouse in Bogue Hill, St James, on Monday. The deceased has been identified...
WESTERN BUREAU: An 80-year-old man was shot dead at a cook shop he operated inside the St Clavers Transport Centre in Montego Bay, St James, on Thursday afternoon. He has been identified as Lesmore Williams, of a Perry Street address in Montego Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St Catherine mother’s journey to Westmoreland to participate in a cousin’s wedding turned into a painful nightmare after her three-year-old son was crushed by a large gate in a freak accident on Wednesday, hours before the event....
Three people were killed and several others left injured in three motor vehicle crahses in western Jamaica since Christmas Eve. Those killed have been identified as 41-year-old Sydia Jarrett, of Friendship in Trelawny; 61-year-old Linton Watkin,...
Tour operators from the Secrets Resorts Taxi Association (STTA) in Montego Bay, St James, brightened the Christmas of over 100 disabled children at the Westhaven Children’s Home in Copse, Hanover, by giving the institution a generous donation of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Law enforcers have ramped up security for shoppers at Falmouth’s Bend Down Market as Christmas draws near. That market day, Wednesday, sees hundreds of shoppers and vendors from all 14 parishes gathering at one location in Falmouth...
A St James woman was killed at her Mount Carey home on Wednesday and her daughter injured after gunmen forced their way inside the house and opened fire at the occupants. Fifty-three-year-old Melvalyn Cross was killed in the incident, which took...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two men were left dead and four others hospitalised after a series of accidents along the Lilliput main road in St James on Sunday night. In the first of three accidents, a man identified as 38-year-old Linval Griffiths is believed...
WESTERN BUREAU: An uncle of 42-year-old dressmaker Alicia Smithson, victim of an apparent murder-suicide in Senior, a community on the Westmoreland-St James border, believes that jealous rage could be behind the tragedy. Police investigators have...
Although neighbours heard 38-year-old farmer Kerry Ann Williams screaming for help during a dispute at her Mount Airy home in Westmoreland on Wednesday afternoon, the dead silence which followed did not arouse suspicion that the woman was being...
WESTERN BUREAU: POINTING TO the projected addition of 4,000 rooms to the hotel sector, senior adviser and strategist in the Ministry of Tourism, Delano Seiveright, has said that the industry is now experiencing the largest wave of investments in...
WESTERN BUREAU: DOZENS OF disgruntled vendors at Negril Plaza in West End, Westmoreland, have threatened to take legal action against the Negril Chamber of Commerce because of an eviction bid. They claim the plaza had been donated to them in the...
