WESTERN BUREAU: Ten years after replacing the late Roy Barrett as custos of Trelawny, Paul Muschett has called time on his tenure and is to be replaced shortly by Hugh Gentles, of Gladstone Berry Exporters, which is based in Lowe River in southern...
WESTERN BUREAU: The quota of justices of the peace (JPs) in the parish of Trelawny was increased to 220 last Friday with the addition of 30 new members at an installation ceremony at the Glistening Waters Hotel in Falmouth. The addition to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) is joining the growing list of organisations that are going the technological route with major events as their 171st General Assembly, which is slated for February 24 - 26, will be a virtual event....
WESTERN BUREAU: Four years after the parish was rocked by one of many illegal sand-mining scandals, Trelawny appears poised for yet another major scandal as unidentified persons have been illegally stripping the topsoil off lands own by the...
Western Bureau: Squatters who have built houses on former sugar lands at Parnassus in Trelawny will soon be required to pay for the plots as the Government moves to establish a structure under which the lands will be used for housing and...
Western Bureau: The $16.5-million drop-in centre opened in Falmouth, Trelawny, last July has added a second meal to its menu for the homeless, moving to providing breakfast and dinner as opposed to original plans for just one meal a day. “The...
WESTERN BUREAU: The financial landscape in Trelawny is now poised for further growth as come February 1, Gateway Co-operative Credit Union (GCCU) will be opening a new branch at 2-4 Duke Street in Falmouth, the parish capital. Ornel Bedasse, the...
Western Bureau: With Jamaica importing more than US$900 million worth of agricultural produce annually, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Vice President, Denton Alvaranga, wants urgent steps to be taken to improve local production and reduce the...
A combined total of $6.23 million was paid out to 89 raft captains employed to River Rafting in Trelawny. The aid consists of $40,000 in government care package, $21,000 from Jamaica Red Cross and $9,000 from River Rafting to each raft captain....
WESTERN BUREAU: The bitter dispute between the 150 farmers occupying former sugar lands in Long Pond, Trelawny, and Everglades Farm Limited, which has had a longstanding lease on the properties, has fizzled following the intervention of Agriculture...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s bamboo industry has been tapped to generate US$1.4 billion in revenues over the next decade, an investor has forecast. Anthony Dunn, chief investment officer at Delta Capital Partners, which has...
WESTERN BUREAU: The saga surrounding the ownership of former sugar lands at Long Pond in Trelawny has once again reared its ugly head and indications are that a showdown is looming between Everglades Farms Limited, which has a lease for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Trelawny seeing a worrisome increase in COVID-19 cases, businessman Kenneth Grant, chairman of the Falmouth Hospital board, says the uncomfortable statistics, which stands at 260 cases and 13 deaths, is now cause for much...
WESTERN BUREAU: One year after breaking ground for its US$4-million hemp plant for CBD oil (cannabidiol) production, the Trelawny-based Organic Growth Holdings (OGH) has sent off its first shipment of products to Delaware in the United States. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Falmouth Municipal Market in Trelawny, which was handed over to the parish’s municipal authorities in an incomplete state in 2018, is now a source of much discontent for vendors and shoppers, who are facing a myriad of...
Western Bureau: There are fears that a direct hit from a major storm could leave Falmouth under water as the expansion of the seaside town has interfered with its natural drainage. The Trelawny capital is steadily being expanded towards Martha Brae...
Western Bureau: It would appear that the plan for the two COVID-19 field hospitals on the grounds of the St Joseph’s Hospital in Kingston and the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny will not be completed according to the projected deadlines as the...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an act that could be interpreted as cementing his legacy with his former congregants at William Knibb Baptist Church in Falmouth, Trelawny, the Reverend Devere Nugent, who is now based in Kingston, returned...
Western Bureau: The Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) has rejected a recommendation by Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang for the removal of the fountain in Water Square, Falmouth, where a statue is to be mounted to immortalise track and...
Western Bureau: While the spate of recent new developments, to include new hotels and an expanding Falmouth cruise shipping pier that has emerged alongside the Salt Marsh to Duncans coastline in Trelawny, has been an investor’s dream, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The local bamboo industry, which currently revolves around a 2,000-acre project on former sugar lands in Trelawny, is to be expanded by some 25,000 acres through a US$300-million project across central and western Jamaica. Joseph...
Western Bureau: With the uncertainty as to whether a statue of sprint legend Usain Bolt will be erected in Water Square in Falmouth, Trelawny, now over, with Minister of Culture Olivia Babsy Grange giving the project the green light, the future of...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THE COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the local tourism sector, sidelining important revenue-generating vehicles like the cruise shipping sector, it has also given stakeholders an opportunity to...
Western Bureau: Normally, passing a mere one Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subject would count for very little, but for 17-year-old Chanalee Williams, a ward of the state at the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny, it was a...
Western Bureau: It would appear that the lease arrangement between the Government and the All-Island Cane Farmer’s Association (AICFA), which would see former cane workers getting some 3,600 acres of sugar lands at Long Pond in Trelawny is in...
