Western Bureau: Despite major investments aimed at boosting the region’s crime-fighting capabilities, western Jamaica, based on the latest Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) serious crimes report, is still struggling to cauterise the violence that...
Western Bureau: Renowned tourism sector personality John Byles, the chairman of the Montego Bay Chapter of the Destination Assurance Council, is calling for “total inclusivity” within the local tourism sector, saying it will create the scope for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Workers at Excellence Oyster Bay in Trelawny returned to work yesterday after the hotel’s management agree to more favourable working conditions and better remuneration. The staff walked off the job on Monday morning, demanding...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite pleas from the Jamaica Tourist Board and the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association for more dialogue amid simmering tensions, the tourism sector was hit with another protest action on Monday, this time by staff at Excellence...
WESTERN BUREAU: For the second time this week, disgruntled hotel workers in Montego Bay, the nation’s tourism capital, have staged a protest to voice their frustration over low wages and other grievances. The action has sparked fresh concerns...
Western Bureau: The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is reporting the full resumption of work at the Secrets and Breathless resorts in Montego Bay, St James, after the hotels faced turmoil Tuesday when staff staged a protest, demanding relief...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover was on edge on Monday morning as residents of Johnson Town staged a fiery protest along the heavily trafficked Montego Bay to Negril corridor, including at the Riley Bridge entrance to Lucea, in response to the police-...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the financial incentives are clear, the reality of life in a new country – and the hurdles involved in securing the appropriate qualifications and professional status – continues to make the transition for many Jamaican...
Western Bureau: The recently staged fourth annual MBJ Charity Run has proven to be a major success story for the organisers – the operators of the Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay – as $22 million was raised from the event, which was...
Western Bureau: As it was in 2018, when they were trapped in their homes by floodwaters caused by torrential rains, the residents of McNeil Land, Westmoreland, found themselves stuck again yesterday in the aftermath of the passage of Tropical...
Western Bureau: A man who the St James police have labelled a high-value target and a much-feared gang leader in western Jamaica was one of three men killed in an alleged shoot-out with lawmen in Hanover late Wednesday afternoon. The renowned...
Western Bureau: While she still has a court case to answer regarding charges recommended by the Integrity Commission, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who will contest the November 22 by-election in Trelawny South on the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP)...
WESTERN BUREAU: Brian Jardim, the founder and CEO of Rainforest Caribbean, is set to be inducted into the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) Honours Business Leader Wall of Fame. In a release, the MBCCI said Jardim will be...
Western Bureau: In a show of commitment to education, community upliftment and the fostering of a love for reading, renowned charities Chukka Foundation and Hanover Charities have donated some 1,200 books to libraries in St James and Hanover. “The...
Western Bureau: Just days after Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in Trelawny South staged a protest in Albert Town, calling for their party leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to reinstall former member of parliament (MP) Marisa ‘Mama D’...
Western Bureau: The just over 200 militant workers who walked off the job and staged a protest at Royalton Negril on National Heroes Day got their wish on all counts yesterday following a meeting among the hotel’s management, the workers, and...
Western Bureau: While staff at Royalton Negril have returned to work, a scheduled meeting between a high-level Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) delegation led by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett and the hotel’s management and workers is still slated...
Western Bureau: When the love of her life, 44-year-old Constable Linroy Codner, washed two loads of clothes for her on the morning of Friday, October 4, Natasha Freckleton, his common-law-wife of three and half years, could not help but be thankful...
Western Bureau: Motorists, including several visitors to the island, were trapped in Sandy Bay, Hanover, for several hours yesterday morning as residents of the community staged a fiery demonstration along the Montego Bay to Negril thoroughfare to...
Western Bureau: A motorist was shot and killed gangland-style in front of the police’s control centre, formerly the Church Street Police Station, in downtown Montego Bay, St James, early Monday night by gunmen who reportedly chased his vehicle...
WESTERN BUREAU: The National Water Commission (NWC) and the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) are facing criticism for their failure to address a compromised sewage main at the entrance to the Cornwall Court housing scheme in St James, raising alarms...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT HAS been 41 years since the passing of Jamaica-born entrepreneur, Rufus Nataniel Rockhead, but his legend lives on in Canada, where he came to fame in 1929 as the owner of the famous Montreal-based jazz club, Rockhead’s Paradise...
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER YEARS of trying various policing initiatives, including states of emergency (SOE) and zones of special operations (ZOSO), to combat the rapid lawlessness which has been plaguing western Jamaica for over two decades, the Area...
Western Bureau: In a March 2016 Gleaner article, published under the headline, ‘Overwhelming GSAT optimism out west’, a then 12-year-old Ronaldinho ‘Mike’ Headley, who was a student at Hampden Primary School, on the Trelawny-St James border, was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Sangster International Airport now has an ambulance and medical team on location to better handle medical emergencies after a terminal tragedy last week left the Montego Bay-based facility with a black eye. The Gleaner was...
