WESTERN BUREAU: The emerging medical ganja industry will become one of Jamaica’s fastest-growing industries and could be worth as much as J$16 billion in the next three to four years, the agriculture minister has said. Speaking at Wednesday’s...
Western Bureau Come next year, the local justice system is poised for major reform, as according to Justice Minister Delroy Chuck, some six new parish courts are to be constructed across the island. “The Government will be embarking on the building...
Western Bureau Businessman Kenneth Grant, president of the Trelawny Lay Magistrates Association, is calling on his fellow justices in the parish to put aside the temptation to profile and, instead, focus on doing the job they were installed to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has been urged to give an additional month’s maternity leave to mothers instead of offering fathers time off from work. That call has come from outspoken president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen...
Shocked at the run-down state of the four main cemeteries in Trelawny, a Jamaican expatriate has committed to clean the burial ground in her hometown of Martha Brae because of the failure of municipal authorities. Judy Doctor, who lives in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Parliamentarian Ronald Thwaites has urged residents to promote respect for punctuality among both children and adults and to reject flippant acceptance of ‘Jamaica time’ – a humorous allusion to tardiness which, he said, negatively...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thanks to the group Friends of Trelawny Association (FOTA), which operates out of New York in the United States, and Falmouth, Trelawny, students in and around Falmouth now have a homework centre, where they can go in the afternoons...
WESTERN BUREAU: Vice-President Damion Crawford has not ruled out running on a People’s National Party (PNP) ticket in St Catherine South East – or any other constituency – if the political organisation calls on him to do so. Crawford, whose name...
Western Bureau: The Trelawny Public Health Department has shut down the Tesco Supermarket on Market Street in Falmouth in a crackdown on food establishments breaching health standards. Delroy Mowatt, Trelawny’s chief public health officer, told...
Western Bureau: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid said that the ongoing migration of the nation’s teachers to so-called greener pastures was having a negative impact on some schools, resulting in the merger of classes to make...
Western Bureau: Pedestrians using Duke, George and Cornwall streets in Falmouth, Trelawny, have been left without sidewalks in these areas as the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) has reportedly designated the sides of the roads for the parking...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny Fire Department is set to benefit significantly from a US$1-million budget that the Jamaica Fire Brigade has in its coffers to carry out remedial works. Stewart Beckford, commissioner of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, told...
Western Bureau: Outspoken Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid has accused minister with responsibility for education Karl Samuda and Acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean of misleading the public when they dismissed claims...
Western Bureau: Vendors are again operating with impunity in Water Square in Trelawny following a ban on commercial activity in the area. The Trelawny Municipal Corporation had declared the square in Falmouth off-limits in February 2017. At that...
Western Bureau: While Trelawny is currently seeing an increase in the number of suspected cases of dengue fever, Dr Diahann Dale, the medical officer of health for the parish, is not unduly worried, saying the situation is not abnormal. “It is not...
Western Bureau: A streetscape project undertaken to enhance the view of the historic Falmouth cruise shipping pier in the Trelawny capital is falling apart in some places one year after completion. The streetscape project sought to improve...
Western Bureau: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid is calling on the Ministry of Education to immediately ban the use of biometric data systems to record the punctuality of teachers. Citing the ruling earlier this year that...
Western Bureau: Months of feuding between Trelawny Custos Paul Muschett and Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager was halted yesterday as acting on the instructions of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie got both...
Western Bureau: The Falmouth Fire Station – the only such facility in Trelawny, which has more than 33,000 homes and a number of large hotels – is woefully short of resources to effectively respond to emergencies across the entire parish. The state...
Western Bureau: Owen Speid, the president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is accusing the Ministry of Education (MOE) of acting in breach of its Code of Regulation in the appointment of principals. In an interview with The Gleaner...
Western Bureau: The 51-year-old Trelawny Co-operative Credit Union (TCCU) came good for 42 students in that parish recently by awarding them bursaries totalling J$1.5 million for outstanding performances in the Primary Exit Profile, Caribbean...
Western Bureau: North Trelawny Member of Parliament (MP) Victor Wright says while will be throwing his support behind incumbent Dr Peter Phillips in the upcoming People’s National Party’s (PNP) leadership race, he will not be dictating to the...
Western Bureau: The justice minister has slammed the newly installed Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) president’s call for convicted paedophiles and drivers who cause death by reckless driving to be flogged with the cat o’ nine as part of their...
Western Bureau: If the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen Speid, were to have his way, convicted paedophiles would be routinely flogged with the once-feared cat o’ nine, which was outlawed several years ago...
Western Bureau: The illegal practice of killing turtles and poaching their nests for eggs, which has become a feature of life in Duncans Bay, Trelawny, has left one veteran fisherman fuming as he does not believe that enough is being done to...
