WESTERN BUREAU:The Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) is eyeing a substantial increase in revenue for the 2019-2020 financial year, aiming to collect approximately J$697 million.This figure is $326 million more than the amount collected for 2017-...
WESTERN BUREAU:The New Falmouth Market in Trelawny, which should have opened in late 2016 but has been hit by several delays, is facing yet another hold-up as the 'soft opening', which was slated for this month, has been scrapped because the...
Western Bureau:After initially refusing to occupy the new craft market, constructed by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) on Seaboard Street in Falmouth, Trelawny, craft vendors have belatedly decided to move into the facility, ending the dispute...
Western Bureau:The Montego Bay-based entertainment and performing arts production company Hah-R-Mony has denied allegations that it has been preventing Jamaicans from gaining employment in hotels.Ho-Chi-Min Castello, the company's chief executive...
Western Bureau:The Falmouth General Hospital in Trelawny, which was originally constructed to contain 85 beds, has now been expanded to a 140-bed facility as a result of the recent expansion of the facility to accommodate patients transferred from...
Western Bureau:Following the recent injection of $50 million to do upgrading work at Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny, businessman Kenneth Grant, chairman of the hospital's board of management, is calling for the institution to be upgraded from a Type...
Western Bureau:The Trelawny Municipal Corporation is in an upbeat mood, as it has collected some $309 million in property taxes for the year 2017-18, which ends on March 31. The amount collected is approximately 96 per cent of the projected target...
Western Bureau:Craft vendors operating in the proximity of the Falmouth Cruise Ship Pier in Trelawny are hopping mad at the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), which is seeking to prevent them from selling craft items to cruise ship passengers.Barbara...
Western Bureau:The old Hampden Wharf Building in Falmouth, Trelawny, is to be upgraded to the tune of $700 million as part of the plan to transform the facility into the long-promised Artisan Village, which is expected to served as one of the...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Ministry of Agriculture is to subsidise the cost of transporting sugar cane produced by the Trelawny Cane Farmers Association from that western parish to Worthy Park Sugar Estate in St Catherine, and the Appleton Sugar Estates, in...
