While Jamaicans continue to enjoy full access to the popular Seven-Mile Beach in Negril, vendors claim reports have been circulating about a plan to stop them from selling on the popular waterfront by next year. But president of the Negril Chamber...
The result of the pregnancy test was like a death sentence for Otisa Wilmoth. A few weeks from her 15th birthday, she confirmed her greatest fear. And not only would she be facing a judgemental community and disappointed relatives, but a...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has rejected claims that poorly designed stormwater drains and a haphazard approach to approving development projects are to blame for the Second City’s perennial flooding crisis, which last week resulted in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A surge in business developments across western Jamaica has created a stronger demand for the services of justices of the peace (JPs), but while anecdotes that several are requesting and accepting payment to authenticate documents...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis says the current push for more electric vehicles in the island has vindicated his action to have an $80,000 charging port installed at the St Ann Municipal Corporation for his 2019 Porsche...
For the next 12 weeks, criminal networks in western Jamaica are expected to face more intense anti-crime measures that Police Commissioner Antony Anderson is confident will significantly reduce the number of murders in the region. Speaking to the...
Plans for the revival of the rail service in western Jamaica have stimulated a feeling of nostalgia among residents located along the scenic route from Montego Bay, St James, to Appleton Estate in Siloah, St Elizabeth, who crave for an impetus to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some route taxi operators in western Jamaica are disregarding the rates set by the Transport Authority and have affixed a surcharge that the commuting public pays with very little protest. In some instances, a Sunday Gleaner...
After amassing significant wealth from defrauding unsuspecting North Americans for over a decade, Candice* is desirous of ending her involvement in lottery scamming, but the lure of quick money has kept her trapped in the fast lane. Candice was...
When Jeffery Fitzgerald did not arrive at school by 7:30 a.m. on Monday, February 21, classmates of his grade-seven class at Spot Valley High School in St James could tell that something was wrong, because the 12-year-old Lilliput resident was...
The disbelief was unmistakable on Charles Brown’s* 82-year-old tear-stained face. Brown, a church deacon, was trying to come to grips with allegations that his first granddaughter, Jamaican cop Shelian Allen, has been accused of drug smuggling and...
Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons in Portland, Wallace Sterling, has rubbished suggestions that a decision to accept an invitation to meet with Prime Minister Andrew Holness without Accompong Chief Richard Currie was an act of betrayal. Currie has...
Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes that the Omicron strain of the virus which causes COVID-19 could be a godsend to herald the end of the pandemic with the world moving into an endemic...
Despite the threat that they could lose funding support from the Government, descendants of the Maroons across the island have said they are unwilling to give up their indigenous rights. However, their counterparts in Scotts Hall, St Mary, are...
The local Maroon communities intend to seek audience with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to try and ease simmering tension between the Government and the indigenous groups, especially in relation to those in the Cockpit Country led by Richard Currie...
Chinese expatriates operating businesses in Jamaica are fearful that they remain marked targets for the criminal underworld, following the shooting death of 53-year-old businessman Shiyun Shu and his wife, Haikong Wan, in Bellevue, St Elizabeth,...
It has proven difficult for Prophet Dr Jahmar Watson to locate the scattered flock of the now-deceased controversial pastor Kevin Smith, but he is hell-bent on carrying out what he said is his God-given mandate to restore the members of Pathways...
A threat by the Government to take legal action against families who have abandoned relatives at the island’s public hospitals has not scared Candace*, who is convinced that her father, Carlton*, is right where he should be: out of her life. Health...
With the global supply chain yet to recover from COVID-19 shocks, it could be a bleak Christmas for shoppers across the island as merchants pass on the increasing costs to source goods overseas. Freight rates have spiked by as much as 600 per cent...
The new omicron variant of the virus which causes COVID-19 is creating anxiety among tourism interests in western Jamaica, as cancellation numbers increase steadily amid its spread across the world and resulting travel bans. The omicron variant has...
Heightened police-military activities in the killing fields of St James, Westmoreland and Hanover have placed communities along the St Elizabeth border on high alert for undesirables seeking refuge in their villages. The three western parishes have...
The administrators at Little Bay All-Age and Infant School in Westmoreland have been left feeling cheated after the Ministry of Transport and Mining blocked a decision to give them a Mitsubishi Rosa Coaster bus under the Rural School Bus Programme...
Kevin Smith kept daily tabs on his flock’s contributions to his multimillion-dollar empire with daily reports on collections and expenditure, and personally contacted members if their life insurance policies under his management were in arrears....
While the eyes of the nation have been focused on the bizarre and deadly religious practices at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James for over two weeks, noted theologian, the Reverend Dr Ronald Hamilton, is among...
Forty-two-year-old Garth Lindsay has been living on the streets of Montego Bay, St James, for the past 15 years. He left his hometown in Fellowship, Portland, in search of a better life, completing the 135-mile trek after five days, and today has...
