WESTERN BUREAU: A 13-year-old Anchovy High School student was among seven persons murdered across St James between last Thursday and Friday as the parish’s murder count for the year climbed to 150 despite an ongoing state of public emergency. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Robert Gordon, the commander for the Westmoreland police, said additional security measures have been put in place in the parish, which is already under a state of public emergency (SOE), to ensure the safety and...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover-based pastor who was arrested and charged last week following allegations that he sexually molested several children in the parish will spend Christmas behind bars as he was remanded when he appeared in the Hanover...
Seven fishermen who were lost at sea for more than a week were reunited with families in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, yesterday after being saved by a seaman who refused to give up on his rescue mission. What was expected to be an uneventful three-day...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the ongoing state of emergency in St James, robbers have laid siege to the Charles Gordon Market in the parish capital, fleecing vendors and shoppers of millions of dollars. The St James Municipal Corporation, which operates...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Quality Education Circle (QEC) of the Ministry of Education (MOE) Region 4 came good for the family of two children, who perished in a fire which destroyed their home in the Norwood section of Montego Bay, St James, on November...
Western Bureau: St James remains under the gun with six persons slaughtered in the last four days despite a number of security initiatives meant to curb the parish’s runaway murder figures. The latest victim has been identified as 28-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James family is demanding answers from administrators at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) about how a man who was admitted to the Type A facility on Saturday turned up dead under a bridge in downtown Montego Bay the following...
Western Bureau: Trelawny, one of the most peaceful parishes in western Jamaica, saw blood flowing through its streets on Monday night as two men were killed in a drive-by shooting in St Vincent district near Albert Town. The dead men have been...
Following a recent string of murders that have rattled western Jamaica, Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips charged on Friday that the Holness administration has weakened states of emergency (SOEs), allowing criminals to reign amid the imposition...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has expressed outrage at recent attacks against school administrators and teachers, urging parents and other stakeholders to use non-confrontational alternatives to settle disputes. The alarm...
Frome Technical High School in Westmoreland and the Maroon Town community of St James were both plunged into mourning on Tuesday following the tragic death of a teacher in a St Elizabeth automobile crash. Dead is 32-year-old Wyarth Vaughn Wilkins,...
Western Bureau: The St James police are reportedly making headway into unmasking police impersonators who have been on a deadly rampage in the parish, driving terror into the hearts of residents. “We have identified suspects in the three most...
A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for the St James woman who was recently charged in connection with the deaths of her two sons, in a fire which destroyed their home in Paradise, Norwood, on November 1. Shantel Brown, 28, who was charged...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has been urged not to abandon ongoing social intervention in St James despite strong criticism by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang that the programmes are not working. Fitz Jackson, the opposition’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: While legitimate lawmen continue to grapple with a crime wave plaguing St James, a band of police impersonators who shot and killed a man in Paisley district early yesterday morning are now adding to their headache. In the brazen...
WESTERN BUREAU: A basic school in one of the safest communities of crime-wracked St James was sent into panic and weeping yesterday as an infant girl watched helplessly as her father was gunned down in front of her shortly after 8 a.m. Minutes...
Western Bureau: At least 10 fearful families have recently fled the once-quiet community of Bickersteth in St James, which has had its reputation ravaged by gun-toting gangsters using the multimillion-dollar telemarketing scam to fuel their thirst...
The bloodletting in St James took yet another ugly twist over the weekend as gun-toting gangsters murdered four persons and left another six nursing gunshot wounds as their blatant defiance of all security measures, including the ongoing state of...
Western Bureau: The spate of murders rocking downtown Montego Bay in recent weeks yesterday claimed another victim when a lone gunman attacked an unsuspecting motorist along Hart Street, pumping several bullets into his head and chest, killing him...
Western Bureau: two men were shot dead and a child injured in separate incidents as gunmen went on a rampage in St James on Wednesday night. Those killed have been identified as 54-year-old Bertland Bennett, unemployed of Lethe district, and 34-...
Western Bureau: The community of Roehampton in St James was yesterday rocked by a gruesome murder when an irate man allegedly beheaded his younger brother in a machete attack. The dead man has been identified as 25-year-old Dale ‘Mash Up’ Hylton,...
Western Bureau: TWO DRIVERS perished yesterday after a motor car got out of control and crashed head-on into a minibus along the Flankers main road in St James. Twelve students and five adults were also injured in the crash. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: A six-month-old baby has become the 96th murder victim in St James this year, following a shooting rampage that also left three other persons injured after gunmen struck in Norwood, St James, on Saturday night. The dead child has...
Western Bureau: A man said to be a top-tier member of the Montego Bay-based G-City gang is now behind bars, facing extortion charges for allegedly using a death threat to get a woman to give him more than J$100,000. The accused, 26-year-old Odain...
