Western Bureau: For the second time in eight days, the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mt Salem, St James, was breached by gunmen last Friday with yet another brazen daylight murder, this time just metres away from the military post. According...
Western Bureau Independent councillor Ian Myles, who was selected to replace the ousted Danree Delancy as the new deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, is poised to face a legal hurdle to determine if he should be seated. Yesterday, attorney-at-law...
WESTERN BUREAU: POLICE COMMISSIONER Major General Antony Anderson believes that for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to function at its highest potential, it will require transformation through young people who have other options, but see the...
Western Bureau: Jamaica notched yet another first in global football yesterday, becoming the first nation in the Concacaf region to host a FIFA Football for Schools (F4S) workshop, which is a collaboration between FIFA and UNESCO to educate,...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH GANGSTERS in St James seemingly unperturbed by the Government’s new Firearm Act and security measures such as the state of emergency (SOE), Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vernon Ellis has declared a ‘special emergency’...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police division was thrown into mourning on Wednesday after news broke that Inspector Franklin Hunter, the officer in charge of the Mt Salem Police Station, collapsed and died in the United States, where he was on...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Miracle Tabernacle Basic School in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann, has taken on a brand new look, thanks to some $600,000 worth of renovation work, which was spearheaded by three students from the Vocational Training Development Institute...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SOME crime-fatigued residents in western Jamaica were happy to see a strong security presence, others who have gone through two previous bouts of states of emergency (SOE) in 2018 and 2022 are questioning the effectiveness of...
Western Bureau: Frightened by last week’s brazen double murder, which was quickly followed by the killing of a popular meat shop operator, and other shooting incidents, some residents of Mt Salem, St James, are worried that the zone of special...
Western Bureau: Primary school cricket is slated to make a return to St. James today with action in the inaugural John’s Hall Primary School-Jerry Reid Under-13 Cricket Competition, which will feature three games at the Orange playing field, near...
Western Bureau: St Elizabeth outfit Treasure Beach started their campaign in the 2023 Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Tier II Football Competition in fine style on Saturday, spanking three-time national champions Reno 2-1 on their home turf, the...
Western Bureau: A dazzling Beenie Man and an awesome Spice shredded all doubt about their solid credentials as the king and queen of the dancehall when they left fans totally mesmerised early Sunday morning with their scintillating sets at...
Western Bureau: While track athletes in western Jamaica have been denied the use of the 400-metre synthetic running track at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in Catherine Hall for the past five years, racing cars were seen speeding around the track...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police superintendent Sharon Beeput is urging two men being sought in connection with two separate cases of murder and shooting in Hanover to turn themselves in.This follows Monday’s contact of a man who was listed as a person of...
WESTERN BUREAU: A brazen attempt to ambush and rob a cash-in-transit vehicle owned by Beryllium Limited along the Bogue Hill main road in St Elizabeth on Wednesday was thwarted after the security team breached a roadblock set up by armed criminals...
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER YEARS of lobbying, stakeholders in Negril, one of Jamaica’s premier tourism destinations, are poised to get their wish as the Government has announced plans to construct an international airport in that resort town, which is...
Western Bureau: Stakeholders in the resort town of Negril, which spans both Hanover and Westmoreland, are now in a heightened state of concern as the town’s only public ambulance, which is assigned to the town’s fire...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica continues to seek out new ways to address food security, Westmoreland will be joining the parishes staging annual agricultural shows as part of the effort to encourage, motivate and inspire more people to start taking...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover police have discovered that a 15-year-old Hanover schoolboy in custody facing seven counts of rape was out on bail for a similar offence at the time he allegedly committed the latest incidents. The Gleaner understands...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some police officers assigned to the zone of special operation (ZOSO) in Norwood, St James, since the inception of the security measure in June are complaining of fatigue, saying that they desperately want to be reassigned to other...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the work done by his multinational research team being accepted for publication by an internationally recognised medical journal, Journal of Dentistry and Oral Sciences, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Science at The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some 700 students, drawn mostly from four St Elizabeth communities, are now operating in much greater comfort, thanks to a gift of backpacks, valued at US$17,000, which were donated to them by a Jamaican family living in the United...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has been buoyed by the early success of the newly formed Maritime, Air and Cyber Command (MACC) that intercepted a drug run by smugglers off the island’s southwestern coastline, netting cocaine valued...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite Prime Minister Andrew Holness seemingly not being convinced that there is a dire shortage of policing manpower in western Jamaica, crime-weary residents and overworked cops are adamant that more boots are needed on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sarah Ann Darling Finlay, the mother of the senior Gleaner Writer Janet Silvera and grandmother of photographer-videographer Ashley Anguin, was eulogised as the ‘ultimate village’ mother at her tribute-filled funeral at the St James...
