WESTERN BUREAU: AMID THE recent spate of stabbing incidents at schools, there are mixed views among educators that permission should be granted for teachers to arm themselves while carrying out their duties on school premises. Among those who...
WESTERN BUREAU: The $200-million, 35-bedroom field hospital on the Falmouth Hospital compound is complete and doctors have welcomed the addition to enhance patient-care services. Chairman of the hospital, Ken Grant, divulged the information...
Celeste Brown-Duggan has been a nervous wreck since the body of her 26-year-old granddaughter, Juzelle Marie Campbell, was discovered in Daniel Town, Trelawny, on Wednesday. Although Campbell had left home for Falmouth on Monday and did not return...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD OF the Trelawny Police Division, Superintendent Carlos Russell, has warned that any student who is found in possession of a weapon will be arrested and charged. Russell, while addressing a specially arranged devotion at William...
WESTERN BUREAU: Guard rings are so popular and revered among some students that a schoolboy fought off a William Knibb High teacher who tried to confiscate the contraband. On Monday, 16-year-old William Knibb student, Camal Hall, succumbed to stab...
WESTERN BUREAU: INSPIRED TO ‘give back’ to their community, a group of persons from Jackson Town, Trelawny, have joined hands to enhance structures within the place of their roots. A welcome sign in the middle of Hampshire Lane, valued at $500,000...
WESTERN BUREAU: DARK CLOUDS are hovering over the businesses of egg farmers in Jamaica. And given a huge and continuous spike in costs in production inputs like feed, it has been predicted that small-scale interests with 1,000 or fewer could...
TWENTY MILION dollars of digital equipment went up in flames in the Harvest Army International on Cornwall Street in Falmouth, Trelawny. The fire, which destroyed the old board structure, started around 3:00 a.m. The church started in 1993 with...
WESTERN BUREAU: VIOLET MOSS BROWN, who for 154 days in 2017 was the oldest living person in the world, had her memory immortalised with the unveiling of a bust in Duanvale, Trelawny, on the anniversary of her birthday, March 10. The $3-million...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRELAWNY’S COHORT of 240 justices of the peace (JPs) is set to be increased in the first quarter of 2022. Custos Hugh Gentles, installed in February 2021, informed The Gleaner that greater demand for services has led to this...
WESTERN BUREAU: CHIEF JUSTICE Bryan Sykes said that the justice system should be up for review, citing jury trial as a main point of concern during an interview with The Gleaner. “The issue for me is an efficient justice system. All our processes...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hospitals throughout Jamaica will soon have to become digitised in their delivery of healthcare services, especially in their radiology department. Orville Anderson, manager, medical imaging at Falmouth Hospital, informed The...
THE JAMAICA Agricultural Society (JAS) is looking to transform its operations so that the farmers’ lobby and its members can derive even more earnings and benefits at the Hague Agricultural Show, which has not been held since the onset of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE more than $200 million being earmarked to fix the three miles of road between Wakefield and Deeside in Trelawny, residents will have to wait at least another two months for work to begin. Last September, Minister Without...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRIGGERED BY a decision to replace candidate Wesley ‘Bob’ Nelson for the upcoming local government elections, tension is mounting in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) camp in the Martha Brae division of the Trelawny municipality....
Western Bureau: Admitting that a number of buildings are being erected across the parish without the requisite approval, Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager is lamenting that the Trelawny Municipal Corporation is losing millions of dollars through the non-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cattle farmers occupying some 1,500 acres of former sugar cane lands in Trelawny are hopping mad at being designated ‘squatters’ by the All-Island Cane Farmers’ Association (AICFA), which has a lease arrangement for the lands with...
Western Bureau: Nigel Myrie, secretary/manager of the All Island Cane Farmers’ Association (AICFA), who is managing some 3,600 acres of former sugar cane-producing lands in Trelawny on behalf of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), is hopping mad...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE COVID-19 pandemic still raging and creating havoc in the various sectors, the financial sector is already counting its losses with the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL) saying its solid asset base of over $...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA National Heritage Trust and the Trelawny Municipal Council are being accused of employing unfair, if not unethical, behaviour in the manner in which building plans are approved for the town of Falmouth, which is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Speaking against the background of the criticisms that were levelled at him when he initiated the construction of the $16-million Drop-In Centre in Falmouth, Trelawny, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following the successful completion of a National Irrigation Commission Limited (NICL) pilot solar project at Bengal, Trelawny, the commission is so encouraged that it now plans to install four other such facilities across the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former outspoken president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen Speid, has declared Prime Minister Andrew Holness as hypocritical for suggesting the death penalty for persons caught with illegal firearms, based on his...
WESTERN BUREAU: Although noting that the Government remained committed to caring for all citizens, regardless of their standing in life, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has said that any new person being taken into the Trelawny Infirmary...
WESTERN BUREAU: After listening to the high-quality presentations by the youngsters who participated in the ‘Youth Mayors Forum’ at the Trelawny Municipal Corporation building in Falmouth on Tuesday, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie...
