WESTERN BUREAU: With some 50 new cases of the coronavirus detected in the parish since the start of the year, the Westmoreland Health Department is urging the public to step up their efforts at protecting themselves from being infected. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business and civic leaders in western Jamaica are divided on whether the Holness administration should send members of the country’s security forces to Haiti as part of a multinational response aimed at restoring public order in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: PATRICK FORRESTER, president of the Petersfield Taxi Association in Westmoreland, says his members did not join Monday’s protest against aspects of the new Road Traffic Act provisions because they have not yet caught the fever. He...
WESTERN BUREAU: GLAZETER LESLIE, a senior clergy member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Westmoreland, wants the leadership of service clubs in Jamaica to do more to protect and shield children from predators, and other forms of abuse being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Glazeter Leslie, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland said that too many Jamaicans are being sympathetic to perpetrators who defraud others out of their money. Leslie said there are multiple cases...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ROTARY Club of Savanna-la-Mar in its most recent community and vocational awards ceremony honoured six outstanding citizens of Westmoreland for their unwavering service in the fields of community development, sports, mechanical...
WESTERN BUREAU: Much of Jamaica’s crime and violence crisis is evidence of the lingering effects of childhood trauma, a western Jamaica physician has said. Dr Sherridene Lee, president of the Western Medical Association (WMA), has expressed...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR ELIZABETH Ward, a member of the European Union (EU) technical assistance team looking at crime prevention in Jamaica, has indicated that plans are being finalised to establish a child-adolescent guidance clinic to help treat and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington has rebuked former Prime Minister Bruce Golding for suggesting that the Government has not been blameless in the Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) saga as it issues licences to investment houses, indicating to...
WESTERN BUREAU: GOOD SHEPHERD Foundation Medical Centre, the healthcare arm of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montego Bay, has received six nebulisers to aid their mission in caring for children and their parents in underserved communities across...
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESS LEADERS in Negril, Jamaica’s most westerly resort town in Westmoreland, say the destination is poised to receive an influx of senior visitors to the area because of the multimillion dollar state-of-the-art Omega Medical...
WESTERN BUREAU: OMEGA MEDICAL Hospital in Negril, Westmoreland, has been described as a game-changer in the field of healthcare services by patients, medical practitioners, and the business community, having successfully performed its first surgery...
WESTERN BUREAU: MOSES CHYBAR, head of Westmoreland’s commerce and industry lobby has welcomed an investment of approximately $60 billion by Bamboo Bioproducts International (BBI). He said the proposed establishment of a bamboo pulp mill will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans are being placed on alert for a possible shortage of chicken meat and eggs towards the end of March, heading into April, as a result of a recent animal feed shortage. Dwaine Josephs, deputy parish agricultural manager for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight aspiring early-childhood and family life educators are to benefit from US$20,000 in scholarship money being awarded by Edmund Bartlett, member of parliament through his East Central St James Education Fund. Bartlett announced...
WESTERN BUREAU: AN UNPAID teaching experience at Camperdown High School has transformed and positioned Ricardo Bennett, an Excelsior High School alumnus who wanted nothing to do with the profession, into becoming the fifth principal of the Sam...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett is looking to raise US$1.5 million dollars to establish a world-class Early Childhood Centre for Innovation in his constituency.“The focus ... is going to be on the children of the communities...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has given instructions to Marlene Malahoo Forte, minister of legal and constitutional affairs, to proceed with “speed” towards transforming Jamaica into a republic. “It is time that Jamaica becomes a...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTMORELAND Health Services is campaigning against disease prevention, and urging parents and guardians to ensure that children under their care get the requisite vaccinations to guard against the contraction of diseases,...
WESTERN BUREAU: FALMOUTH MAYOR Collen Gager believes that the direct election of mayors could place someone with a better management plan at a disadvantage, especially if supporters of political parties are in the majority in towns and cities...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says there is an ongoing need for skilled workers to supplement the depleting pool of local skilled people to build the Western Children’s Hospital in St James. His statement...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that a new contractor is to be engaged before the current fiscal year ends, to complete the third and final stage of rehabilitation works at the Cornwall Regional...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has been operating with an inadequate fleet to respond to medical emergencies. Lennox Wallace, acting chief executive officer at the 50-year-old Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), says the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTERN Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has dismissed claims by the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) about a hiring dispute between some qualified doctors and the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James. St...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND WELLNESS Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has expressed fears that the country’s fleet of medical emergency vehicles could become even more inadequate to respond to the needs of Jamaicans, given the culture of crime and...
