Western Bureau: A magistrate in the Trelawny Parish Court was recently forced to take proceedings to the building’s balcony because of the absence of a ramp to facilitate a wheelchair-enabled man entering the courthouse. The man in question, Haynes...
Western Bureau: Tuesday’s absence of Falmouth’s mayor, Councillor Collen Gager, from the dais and the inspection of the guard of honour at the Independence Day Civic Ceremony in Water Square, Falmouth, has once again reignited concerns about what...
Western Bureau: The more than 700 vendors at the newly constructed $300-million Falmouth Municipal Market in Trelawny are unhappy with the conditions at the facility, which was constructed by the Port Authority of Jamaica. According to the vendors...
Western Bureau: Two months after the Trelawny Fire Brigade (TFB) confirmed that at least 25 businesses, including supermarkets and haberdasheries, were operating in Falmouth in breach of the International Fire Code, no action has been taken to...
Western Bureau: The Trelawny Justice Centre, which was opened in April on a seven-acre property in Rock, on the outskirts of Falmouth, now has a fully established family court, thanks to the recent $45-million refurbishing exercise at the property...
Western Bureau: Trelawny’s Spring Garden Primary and Infant School emerged champions of the inaugural Jamaica Gasolene Retailers’ Association (JGRA) Region Three Primary Schools’ Quiz Competition on Monday when they defeated Golden Grove Primary...
Western Bureau: The acrimonious relationship between Trelawny Custos Paul Muschett and Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager was on full display at the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association’s inaugural quiz competition final in Trelawny as the mayor flatly...
Although the physical structure for Trelawny’s first traffic lights has been erected, another $15 million is needed to make the lights, which are located at the North Coast Highway- Daniel Town intersection, functional. E.G. Hunter, the chief...
Western Bureau: Residents in southern Trelawny are adamant that no bauxite mining should take place in the Cockpit Country and have vowed to beat back all threats to the island’s most biodiverse region and the main source of potable water for...
Western Bureau: The Trelawny Fire Brigade has confirmed that at least 25 businesses, including supermarkets and haberdasheries, are operating in the town of Falmouth in breach of the International Fire Code as it relates to having clear exits in...
Western Bureau: Disgusted by the major pile-up of garbage at the new $300-million Falmouth Municipal Market in Trelawny, Delroy Mowatt, the chief public health inspector for the parish, is accusing the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) and...
Western Bureau: Following investigations into a racket led by employees of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation, which saw hundreds of thousands of dollars in weekly market fees being siphoned off at the new Falmouth Market, Mayor Collen Gager says...
Western Bureau: The promise by the National Works Agency (NWA) to have traffic lights installed at the problematic North Coast Highway-Daniel Town intersection near Falmouth in Trelawny by the end of April has not materialised, leaving the...
Western Bureau: Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager has been forced to shake up operations at the new Falmouth Market as hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees have gone down the rabbit hole. The new $300-million facility was opened last October after...
Western Bureau: Victor Wright, the member of parliament for Northern Trelawny, is bemoaning what he has described as the destruction of the environment in his constituency in the name of development. “Two agencies of the state are facilitating this...
Trelawny Custos Paul Muschett and Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager are at daggers drawn over the heritage sites in the north-coast town, which has seen a significant boom in tourism and commercial activities over the last decade. Under the Jamaica...
Western Bureau: Three prominent local ministers of religion who are marriage officers have made it clear that they have no intention of performing any such ceremony, should Jamaica head down the path the Cayman Islands seems headed. In a March...
Western Bureau: Trelawny is to receive its first set of traffic lights by the end of April. The National Works Agency (NWA) has confirmed that the lights will be erected at the intersection of the Daniel Town main road and the North Coast Highway...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business and civic interests in Falmouth are fearing a traffic nightmare with the imminent closure of a major thoroughfare that was expected to offset gridlock after access to the Rock Bridge was blocked because of safety concerns...
WESTERN BUREAU: Structural damage to the Rock Bridge in Falmouth, Trelawny, has forced parish authorities to order its closure despite disapproval from and bewilderment of some local stakeholders. The 100-year-old steel bridge, which spans the...
WESTERN BUREAU:Plans are in train for the construction of a drop-in centre for street people on lands owned by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation adjacent to the Elliston Wakeland Centre on Victoria Street in Falmouth, Trelawny.The announcement was...
WESTERN BUREAU:Assistant Commissioner of police in charge of community safety and security, Steve McGregor, is contending that the majority of Jamaica's murders are committed by young people whose parents are not properly monitoring and raising them...
WESTERN BUREAU:Falmouth, the nation's cruise-shipping hub, became home to the country's 36th KFC outlet when Mark Myers, the managing director of Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ), opened the door to the new location on Champion Plaza on the town's...
Western Bureau:The new state-of-the-art J$157m Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) building in Falmouth, Trelawny, opened its doors for official business yesterday, ending a spate of missed opening dates, dating back almost two years."Our new office...
WESTERN BUREAU:The $136-million Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) building in Falmouth, Trelawny, which has missed several completion deadlines dating back to August 2017, is scheduled to be opened in November.According to Meris Haughton, the...
