WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN THE Hussey family, through their Everglades Farms Limited, leased the Trelawny-based Hampden Sugar Estates from Sugar Company of Jamaica Limited in 2009, the initial plan was to expand both sugar and rum production. However,...
Health services are the worst hit due to the loss of electricity as residents and businesses in Trelawny Southern continue to feel the effects of Hurricane Beryl. An uncommonly strong early-season weather system, Beryl lashed Jamaica at Category 4...
The Jamaica Egg Farmers Association is reporting a significant loss in production since the passing of Hurricane Beryl. Mark Campbell, president of the association, told The Gleaner that production has fallen by one-fifth since the Category 4...
Lincoln Nicholson, an exporter of yams from Trelawny, has added a by-product from his fields and is now producing yam vodka. Nicholson, who was born in Miami, Florida, to Jamaican parents, is a graduate of Florida International University. He has...
With a promise to walk the “hills and valleys”, Wykeham McNeill says he will be dedicating all his efforts to winning the Trelawny Northern seat for the People’s National Party (PNP) in the next general election. McNeill, a former minister of...
DEVON MCDANIEL, a 51-year-old furniture business operator from Warsop in Trelawny, is set to represent the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the next general election in South Trelawny. The seat became vacant in September 2023 when member of parliament...
The $700-million artisan village in Falmouth is set for opening today, March 20. At a sensitisation meeting recently, Manager Carol Rose-Brown shared that Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlet is scheduled for a walk-through of the facility, to which...
WESTERN BUREAU: Public cemeteries which fall under the management of the islands’s municipalities are set to benefit from a $200-million maintenance programme. The announcement came from Desmond McKenzie, minister of local government and community...
Donovan White, the deputy mayor in the last Trelawny Municipal Corporation, was unsuccessful in his bid to retain the Duncans division in the recently concluded local government elections. This result has opened a can of worms within the Jamaica...
Plans for the erection of a statue to sprint icon Usain Bolt, and an overhaul of the sewage system along Tharpe Street, are among the litany of broken promises residents of Trelawny say have been made by their elected representatives over the last...
Wakefield Primary in Trelawny has embarked on a model climate-smart garden project, with the aim to start a breakfast programme and boost attendance among its students. Principal Michael James explained that the initiative, which involves the...
Anthony Smith is a 17-year-old graduate of William Knibb High School whose ambition is to become a successful businessman in the tourism industry. “I know the area that I will be pursuing but I am keeping it close to my chest until I have done some...
With roots coming out of Albert Town in Trelawny, Nicole Nugent has risen to being appointed a global ambassador. Citizens of Albert Town opened their hearts to show an appreciation of her rise to worldwide recognition. Speaking at the function,...
FORMER INDEPENDENT councillor for the Lorimers division in Southern Trelawny, Paul Patmore, says that the absence of a member of Parliament (MP) for the area is a blessing in disguise. His comments come after Jamaica Labour Party MP Marisa...
None of the three Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors in Trelawny Southern is willing to step into the vacancy created by the resignation of former Member of Parliament Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert. Dalrymple-Philibert, a JLP member who was...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has listed crime, education and health issues as some of the “challenges” to be faced by his party should it become the next Government. Golding made the observations while presenting the People’s National Party’s (...
BASKETBALL STAR Samardo Samuels is into the habit of giving. He has, over the years, giving school supplies to the place where he got his start, the Salt Marsh Primary School. Born on January 9, 1988, to Ronald and Jackie Samuels told The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) representative Dennis Meadows has received overwhelming support to stand as the Peoples National Party (PNP) candidate in the next general elections. In an election that was a yes or no vote,...
Dennis Meadows, the People’s National Party (PNP) aspirant for Northern Trelawny, has called on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to name those members of his administration who are being investigated by the Integrity Commission for ‘illicit enrichment...
WESTERN BUREAU: Many of the persons arrested and charged for possession of identity information, a feature linked to lottery scamming, are benefiting from a loophole in the judicial system which is allowing them to walk free without the case...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a bid to increase its efficiency, the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) will be utilising drone technology in collecting data collection for the remainder of the ongoing 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which started on June...
Western Bureau: After a protracted period of inactivity, the plan by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to construct 721 housing solutions on 148 acres of former sugar lands at Parnassus in Trelawny appears to be back on the radar. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: JAVAN GARWOOD, who police investigators had accused of hatching the plot to murder his stepmother, former banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood, was freed in the Trelawny Circuit Court yesterday. Lowe-Garwood was shot dead as she worshipped at...
Ground has been broken for a $205-million, 16-kilometre rehabilitation project for the roadway leading from Jackson Town to Ulster Spring in Trelawny. During a ceremony last Thursday, Everald Warmington, minister without portfolio in the Ministry...
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESSMAN KENNETH Grant, who is president of the Trelawny Lay Magistrates Association, has called for justices of the peace (JPs) to be given a stipend for expenses incurred in providing their services. Noting that all JPs are...
