Western Bureau: While seemingly disappointed that the plan to honour legendary dancehall star Bounty Killer, which was supposed to be an integral part of this year’s staging of Reggae Sumfest, has fallen through, Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell, a...
Western Bureau: DESPITE BEING hampered by underutilised multimillion-dollar sporting facilities and the lure of the nefarious lottery scamming, aspiring sportsmen and sportswomen in western Jamaica have one incredible asset, arguably the best pool...
Western Bureau: WHILE THE state-owned sporting facilities in western Jamaica continue to linger in a state of uselessness, much to the detriment of the regions aspiring young sportsmen and women, thanks to the intervention of investors who have...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is against the continued use of the states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting tool, some key figures in Westmoreland, which Prime Minister Andrew Holness has dubbed the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Montego Bay were badly jolted on Thursday when news broke of the execution-style killing of a young woman from the city and her one-year-old daughter in Miami, Florida. The killing of 20-year-old Carla-Shay Malcolm, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: While it is no secret that many women in western Jamaica have been known to aid and abet gangsters in their criminal escapades, in law-enforcement circles, there are no known cases of females’ involvement in actual shootings and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Career police officer Vernon Ellis, who took command of the tough St James Police Division 40 months ago at the rank of superintendent, created history yesterday when he became one of the youngest police commanders in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The security forces seized three assault rifles in an operation in Norwood, St James, yesterday. The weapons – two AK-47 assault rifles and one M16 assault rifle– were found stashed in protective plastic in a section of the...
Western Bureau- While she was born in Montego Bay, St James, Tova Hamilton, the daughter of Hyacinth Minto-Hensley, and Trevor Hamilton, is a proud product of Trelawny, the parish where she spent her formative years in the communities of...
Western Bureau- To say young attorney-at-law Tova Hamilton emerged a giant killer in the September 3, 2020, general election, would be an understatement. In beating the People’s National Party's (PNP) incumbent Victor Wright, she...
WESTERN BUREAU: Popular entertainment personality Horace ‘L.A.’ Lewis could be in for a beating in keeping with local Maroon traditions should he show up in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, ever again. Colonel Ferron...
WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica made a giant step in the world of state-of-the-art dentistry yesterday when the Montego Bay-based International Postgraduate Medical College (IPMC) officially opened its Dental Day Operating Suite at its Bay West...
Western Bureau: As a child, human resource and training professional Dr Dawn Lemonius was not allowed to speak Patois at home. In that era, children were led to believe that the native tongue was crude, and speaking the Queen’s English was both...
Western Bureau: The Herbert Morrison Technical High School and the wider Montego Bay community are in mourning following last week’s passing of legendary educator James Lloyd Legore Whinstanley, the school’s first principal and one of the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: Frustration ruled supreme at several polling stations in St James Central during the midday hours, as several persons who turned up left without voting because of the length of time it was taking to be processed before they...
WESTERN BUREAU: From as early as 6 a.m, the election day buzz was in full swing as Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) workers and members of the security forces worked to ensure a smooth flow of the day’s proceedings in St James Central....
Western Bureau: Senior lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, says questionable promotion and hiring practices and Jamaica’s failure to stabilise the dollar has caused...
Western Bureau: When Delano ‘Prekeh’ Wilmot’s time as one of Jamaica’s most wanted men ended in a gunfight with members of the security forces at an isolated hideaway in rural St James early last Wednesday morning, he joined a long list of...
Western Bureau: After weeks of uncertainty on the high seas and sitting in docks around the world as the global tourism industry collapsed from the devastating coronavirus pandemic, 1,044 Jamaican cruise workers breathed a sigh of relief last week...
Western Bureau: Dancehall star Busy Signal was all the rage at Roots Bamboo on Wednesday night as he unleashed a dazzling performance to steal the spotlight at the Negril edition of the Children of the Icons Concert Tour, which is an integral part...
Western Bureau: Flamboyant Tourism Minster Edmund Bartlett emerged as the brightest star among the galaxy of high achievers at Friday night’s glitzy RJRGLEANER Communication Groups Hospitality Jamaica 2019 Awards when he was presented with the...
A municipal investment scheme offering grant funding to micro and small entrepreneurs in St James is adding buoyancy to emerging businesses, transforming marginal operations into success stories. The Local Economic Development (LED) programme is...
WESTERN BUREAU: A year ago, the tears that once regularly flowed in the Salt Spring community in St James were primarily as a result of residents mourning the death of a relative or friend, who had perished at the hands of marauding gunmen that...
WESTERN BUREAU: As she has been doing for the past five years, Mercia Fraser – whose son Mario Deane died on Independence Day 2014, three days after a brutal beating at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James – marked the...
Western Bureau: MC Nuffy, who has probably witnessed more top-class sound clashes than any other host, believes that sound preparation was behind Germany’s Warrior Sound International surprise win in Thursday night’s Reggae Sumfest’s Global Sound...
