WESTERN BUREAU: A St Elizabeth father is hoping that a judge hands down the death penalty for his daughter’s former flame who stabbed her multiple times in her sleep last year. He believes that this could be a lesson to other abusive and...
WESTERN BUREAU: It has been almost a week since an elderly fisherman from Bluefields in Westmoreland vanished at sea. Days of searching have turned up no sign of 75-year-old Leonard Williams, and his loved ones are now fearing the worst. Williams...
WESTERN BUREAU: Melvin Honeyghan, president of the Funeral Directors’ Association of Jamaica, says only government-contracted funeral directors stand to benefit from the recent adjustments made to burial restrictions, which now makes allowances for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the New Town district in Hanover were jolted on Monday by the shock discovery of a beheaded pastor. The minister of religion has been identified as 40-year-old Kenniffe Andre Reid, who is originally from Lucea, Hanover...
SEVEN people, including a 16-year-old boy, were murdered in St James and Westmoreland during a bloody weekend in which a 13-year-old student was left nursing gunshot wounds at hospital. Those killed in St James have been identified as 33-year-old...
The Funeral Directors’ Association of Jamaica has blasted Prime Minister Andrew Holness for his Government’s decision to ban funerals and burials from March 8 to 22. Melvin Honeyghan, president of the Funeral Directors’ Association of Jamaica,...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 17-year-old student of Rhodes Hall High School in Hanover was shot dead and his older brother seriously injured when armed men kicked in the door to their two-room board house and opened fire in a predawn attack on Tuesday. The...
The debacle at Munro College where the part administrators played in a COVID-19 breakout brought into stark reality, the part leaders at organisations must play in order to help curtail the spread of COVID-19. MUNRO ANGER Administrators blamed for...
The cold-blooded murders of two of their colleagues within 24 hours has driven fear into dozens of farmers across Westmoreland who now believe they are being targeted by deadly criminals. The murdered farmers have been identified as 62-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: Incumbent head of the Accompong Maroons, Colonel Ferron Williams, will face a leadership challenge from four contenders when affiliates of the St Elizabeth-based enclave go to the polls on Thursday. While his challengers, including...
WESTERN BUREAU: Administrators at the all-boy Munro College in St Elizabeth came under fire on Monday for reported lax coronavirus protocols and a culture of complacency that caused an outbreak of infections that has shuttered the school. Munro’s...
Western Bureau: One man has been arrested and charged in connection with a motor vehicle crash on Wednesday along the Barrahm main road in Westmoreland in which an ex-police sergeant was crushed to death. Arrested and charged is 65-year-old Alrick...
Western Bureau: Dancehall artiste Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis, who was arrested and charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday. The...
The Westmoreland police have launched a manhunt for a man who reportedly stabbed a minor outside the Westmoreland Parish Court in Savanna-la-Mar on Tuesday morning. Investigators say they have not yet ascertained the suspect’s identity. Reports...
WESTERN BUREAU: For the second time in less than seven months, armed robbers posing as customers carried out a daring daylight multimillion-dollar robbery at a financial institution in the community of Whitehouse, in Westmoreland. The latest...
WESTERN BUREAU: The relatives of a man who was fatally shot by cops in Meyers Field Mountains, near Grange Hill in Westmoreland on Thursday, are denying police reports that he was killed in a shoot-out. The dead man has been identified as Kevern...
Western Bureau: An issue causing soot to be leaking into fuel being dispensed at its depot and reduced ridership concerns are among reasons behind frustrated commuters seeing an irregular schedule in the roll-out of buses by the Montego Bay Metro....
WESTERN BUREAU: While most persons are still in shock over the brutal murder of 50-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood, who was shot as she worshipped in her Trelawny church on Sunday, based on stories circulating that she was short-changing her in-laws,...
Western Bureau: The gunman believed to have unleashed a deadly assault on banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood as she worshipped in a live-streamed church service in Falmouth, Trelawny, on Sunday is suspected to have been active in a number of homicides...
A manhunt for the presumed shooter was still under way across St James Sunday night in the wake of a spine-chilling murder of a bank executive as she prayed in church. Investigators theorise that the murder was part of a conspiracy hatched by...
Western Bureau: The Barrett Town All-Age School in St James is now better equipped to handle the technological needs of its students, thanks to a new 10-computer laboratory opened at the school yesterday. The US$5,000 facility was made possible by...
WESTERN BUREAU: A man the police say is the prime suspect in the murder of a popular Canadian female events promoter, whose partially decomposed body was found inside her room at an apartment complex in Runaway Bay, St Ann, last week, was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The chef and girlfriend who were charged in connection with the shooting death of four-year-old Chloe Brown were remanded when they appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court on Thursday. Little Chloe and her father, 49-year-old Dalton...
Negril, Westmoreland: Despite three armed men removing the surveillance system during a multimillion-dollar robbery at a Courts Ready Cash outlet in Negril, Westmoreland, on Tuesday, the police say they are are expecting to collar the crooks soon....
Contraband and customs officers unveiled an elaborate ruse to smuggle guns and ammunition in a refrigerator through a Montego Bay wharf as a police campaign to crack down on illegal weapons reaped rewards on Monday. Three high-powered rifles, two...
