Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Sixty-two-year-old raft captain Llewellyn Reid and 5-year-old Jace Jones, who went missing along the Martha Brae River in Trelawny on Tuesday, have been found dead. The bodies washed up along the banks of the river about 2 o’ clock this...
Published:Wednesday | December 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:Falmouth's mayor, Councillor Colin Gager, is saying an emphatic 'no' to vending in Water Square, which is usually the hub of commercial activities during the Christmas season in the Trelawny parish capital, which is famous for its...
Published:Tuesday | November 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:Despite an initial assurance that the new $136-million Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) building that is under construction in Falmouth, Trelawny, would have been completed by the end of August, it is now clear that it will not be...
Published:Monday | November 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:Michael Belnavis, the chairman of Jamaica National Cruise Council, says the expected boon from the increase in the number of ships calling at Falmouth Pier due to hurricane destruction to other piers in the Caribbean and Key West in...
Published:Thursday | November 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has suggested that, being tasked with providing the majority of the services required by the people of Jamaica, his ministry is perhaps the most critical in terms of having the requisite...
Published:Wednesday | November 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:The Trelawny Fire Department is now much better equipped to provide high-quality service at the scenes of accidents and fires, thanks to the generosity of Global Surgery, an organisation affiliated to the University of Toronto in...
Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett on Thursday declared that a new dawn was on the horizon for the town of Falmouth in Trelawny, as he announced that the popular township is to benefit from approximately J$1.1 billion in investment....
Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is soon to be relieved of the responsibility of caring for the 10 social patients now occupying much-needed bed space at Falmouth Hospital, thanks to the timely intervention of Health...
Published:Thursday | October 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:The Port Authority of Jamaica's (PAJ) proposed dredging to extend the Falmouth cruise ship pier, which has attracted much criticism among stakeholders in the Trelawny capital, is poised to go ahead and could see activity starting...
Published:Saturday | October 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Barry Russell, the son of Violet 'Aunt V' Moss Brown, used the thanksgiving service for her life at the Trittonville Baptist Church in Duanvale, Trelawny, yesterday to launch a scathing attack on the media and residents of Duanvale as the...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:The town of Falmouth in Trelawny, which was on the brink of despair following news that several major cruise ships would be pulling out, looks to be getting an unexpected windfall on account of hurricane damage to other destinations...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:After an anxious six-year wait, the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) says that vendors in Falmouth, Trelawny, are poised to get the promised craft market, which is key to the expansion of their various businesses, by mid-October....
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:The world's oldest person, 117-year-old Violet Moss Brown, is caught in the middle of a tug of war between members of her family as one group that claimed that she was not getting the best of care has snatched her from her Duanvale,...
Published:Thursday | August 31, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:The authorities at the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny say it is costing approximately $130,000 per day to care for the 10 social patients occupying much-needed bed space at the hospital, and they are expressing a desire to be relieved...
Published:Tuesday | August 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:Despite being a breach of the Child Care and Protection Act, Maxine Headlam, regional director of Region Three in the Ministry of Education, says some schools are still using corporal punishment, much to the chagrin of the ministry."...
Published:Wednesday | August 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:The Trelawny Municipal Corporation is projecting that it will require a budget of $420 million to carry out its business for the 2017-2018 financial year and acting chief financial officer Trevan Clayton has identified the sources...
Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Outspoken Trelawny churchman, the Reverend Devere Nugent, has flayed the political system for the imbroglio now engulfing the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA).According to Nugent, the way the boards of state agencies are appointed by the Government...
Published:Tuesday | July 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:The Trelawny Co-Operative Credit Union (TCCU) now has an asset base of $2.1 billion, and according to the company's management, it now has a surplus of $55 million, which is available for distribution."We have had a trade growth over...
Published:Friday | July 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:Garth Anderson, the president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), says that there is no provision in the Ministry of Education's Code of Regulations to prevent a teacher, who is a licensed firearm holder, from taking his...
Published:Monday | July 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the redeployment of cruise ships from Jamaica is never something the Government wants to see, but that such decisions are entirely up the cruise lines and the way they structure their itinerary....
Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:Falmouth's mayor, Councillor Colin Gager, says he is disappointed with the recent call by the Reverend Devere Nugent for residents of the Trelawny parish capital to resist the plan by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) to do further...
Published:Monday | June 19, 2017 | 4:14 PMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:Outspoken Trelawny pastor, the Reverend Devere Nugent of the William Knibb Baptist Church, is calling on the people and churches in the parish to resist the plan to do further dredging of the sea, which is a proposal to bring more...
Published:Tuesday | June 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
Western Bureau:History was created in the 57-year-old Trelawny Association of Branch Societies of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) yesterday when Patrick White became the first sitting president to be removed from office via a 'no confidence'...
Published:Friday | June 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:A decision has been taken to further dredge the Falmouth Pier in the second quarter of this year. The dredging is to facilitate an expansion of the US$269 million pier, which was opened in March 2011.Mervis Edghill, a senior vice-...
Published:Friday | May 26, 2017 | 3:12 PMLeon Jackson
WESTERN BUREAU:Kenneth Grant Jr, the acting president of the Trelawny Association of Lay Magistrates (TALM), said the work of the association in the western parish is being undermined because there are far too many lazy justices of the peace (JP) in...
