WESTERN BUREAU: The Hampden Community Development Corporation (HCDC), in Trelawny, has launched an ambitious initiative to create an industry out of the bamboo plant, which is quite prevalent in that section of the western parish. Secretary of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) senator, Dennis Meadows, who has been campaigning relentlessly to be selected as the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer for the Trelawny North constituency in the next general...
WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager on Monday gave orders to a Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) team to seize goods in the seaside resort town after some vendors disobeyed warnings that vending would not be allowed on the sidewalks. “I...
WESTERN BUREAU: A section of the roof at the Trelawny Parish Court in Falmouth came tumbling down on Wednesday, forcing presiding judge Vaughn Facey and other persons to vacate the courtroom and complete proceedings in a corridor outside. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: It has been more than two years since Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie told a town hall meeting in Trelawny that a new fire station would be constructed in Ulster Spring. But except for a groundbreaking ceremony last June...
Western Bureau: Even though they are no longer occupying hospital bed space, the Government is still footing the bill for the day-to-day care of the social patients, who were moved from the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) to a private facility in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The prolonged drought, which has been plaguing sections of the island, is said to be having a particularly devastating impact on yam and Irish potato farmers in south Trelawny. The area has long boasted high crop yields including...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Justice Bryan Sykes believes that Jamaica’s Circuit Court system should undergo changes to bring it up to date with current realities in terms of the cases it is asked to adjudicate on. “The Circuit Court system, as it now...
WESTERN BUREAU: Omega Medical Services, fast emerging as a leading provider of quality healthcare, opened a new multimillion-dollar facility at Champion Plaza on Market Street, in Falmouth, last Friday. The centre, which occupies 2,850 square feet...
WESTERN BUREAU: Trelawny Lay Magistrates Association President Kenneth Grant is becoming increasingly concerned about what seems like an increase in the number of videos circulating showing schoolchildren engaging in acts of violence. “I am...
WESTERN BUREAU: CHAIRMAN OF Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny, Ken Grant, has set an ambitious agenda to improve the quality of healthcare delivered at the institution in 2023. Already, one item on the agenda has been ticked off as a success, as the...
WESTERN BUREAU: For 139 years the Primary School in Troy, South Trelawny, bore the name of the district. This is about to change as it will be renamed Veronica Campbell-Brown Primary, in honour of the national female sprint icon. Minister of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Plans for two major refurbishing projects for Trelawny have been met with some criticism by some members of the diaspora, amid suggestions for a revisit. Falmouth Mayor C. Junior Gager announced recently that the Albert George...
WESTERN BUREAU: The protracted shortage of animal feed in several sections of the island led to chaos in the Trelawny capital on Wednesday as news swirled that a trailer loaded with pig and chicken feed was headed to a store. Desperate farmers...
The Government of Jamaica and the European Union have partnered on a climate change adaptation project. The project, titled”A Jamaican Path from Hills to Ocean”, is funded in part by a grant from the European Global Climate Change Alliance Plus in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The long-promised installation of a statue in Water Square, Falmouth, to honour Trelawny sprinting legend Usain Bolt will miss yet another deadline. At September’s Trelawny Municipal Corporation meeting, Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager...
WILLIAM KNIBB High School was the beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar donation from Usain Bolt, the Digicel Foundation, and sports gear manufacturer PUMA. Usain, a past student of the school and the only athlete to win the 100 and 200 metres at...
WESTERN BUREAU: FINALLY! A date has been set for the unveiling of the statue of legendary sprinter and son of Trelawny, Usain Bolt, in his native parish. Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager revealed the date for the installation of the statue of the double...
WESTERN BUREAU: DENNIS MEADOWS, a former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) senator who failed in three attempts to win the Trelawny Northern constituency for that party, is now officially a member of the People’s National Party (PNP). Meadows had...
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE HAS been a steady decline in local milk production over the years, so much so that Jamaica now imports 85 per cent of the milk consumed in the country. In an effort to the reverse the decline in milk production, and possibly...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRELAWNY Municipality, with assistance from fire and public health officials, has increased its efforts at public safety and are now on a drive throughout the town of Falmouth to identify breaches by businesses, and have them...
Western Bureau: The last time Dian Chambers attempted to do business at the Victoria Mutual Building Society’s (VMBS) offices in Falmouth, she was so frustrated she went back home before even setting foot inside. Not so now. On Monday,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some caterers providing food for schoolchildren under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) are considering packing it in as their current arrangement with the Government is no longer economically viable....
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism minster Edmund Bartlett has joined in calls for an urgent upgrade of the Falmouth hospital’s resources given the increase in medical emergency cases due to traffic accidents, and its location in an area heavily frequented by...
WESTERN BUREAU: After 40 years at upper Market Street near the town centre, the Falmouth branch of the Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) has joined a growing list of commercial businesses moving to the Trelawny parish capital’s new commercial...
