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Published:Sunday | February 25, 2024 | 1:43 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Consumers are expressing concern about the poor quality of unlabelled bulk rice being sold in wholesales and supermarkets in western Jamaica, and are calling on the regulatory authority to remove the product from the market. Across...

Published:Sunday | August 6, 2023 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is calling for harsher penalties for persons found to be poaching crocodiles as Jamaicans continue to hunt the protected species for meat. Jamaica has only one species of crocodile...

Published:Sunday | July 23, 2023 | 12:11 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) and the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) are dismissing concerns which were raised during May’s meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) regarding alleged structural defects at the...

Published:Sunday | July 16, 2023 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Nineteen years ago, a desperate Elivienne Morquette and dozens of other Haitians boarded a rickety canoe and set sail on the perilous Caribbean Sea, propelled by waves of hope in their hearts as they fled a country racked by...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:15 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the police’s Counter-Terrorism...

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2023 | 1:21 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: It took nine months for a bridge along Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay to again fall into disrepair after a $6-million rehabilitation project, which the National Works Agency (NWA) trumpeted was completed four weeks ahead of...

Published:Sunday | March 26, 2023 | 1:05 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Increased internet access by students because of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unfortunate byproduct – an uptick in underage sexual content being shared on social media and online platforms. This has raised fresh concerns for stakeholders,...

Published:Sunday | March 5, 2023 | 12:51 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: If the oversight committee instituted to monitor the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s [CRH] restoration work had been properly informed and equipped to do its job, the Type A facility’s rehabilitation may have gone more smoothly at...

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2023 | 1:42 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Following the recent seizures of two large caches of guns and ammunition in Montego Bay, St James, along with law enforcement’s continued thrust against the cocaine trade in the western city, the local top brass is advocating for a...

Published:Monday | February 20, 2023 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans in several sections of the island are bemoaning the struggle to get water in their communities amid years of unfulfilled promises and a worsening drought affecting the island. In an advertisement in today’s Sunday Gleaner...

Published:Sunday | February 12, 2023 | 1:28 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the Jamaica Midwives Association (JMA) signing on to the Government’s public sector compensation review last November, several community midwives are set on a potential collision course with their union over deducted...

Published:Sunday | February 5, 2023 | 12:17 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: More than two decades after it shuttered its sugar-production facilities, residents of several communities in St James and Trelawny who depended on the Hampden Estate for their livelihood are concerned about their districts’ mixed...

Published:Sunday | December 25, 2022 | 12:53 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: “You cannot go into a public hospital and an incident happens and you are sweeping it under the mat like it is me that do something wrong. They did not treat me good, and I could have died there and then.” That was the disgruntled...

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2022 | 12:10 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: With efforts under way to make the local courts more efficient, including resolving a huge case backlog, attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, KC, believes that financially sanctioning legal players whose actions result in drawn-out...

Published:Sunday | October 2, 2022 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

THE LOOMING weekend threat of Tropical Storm Ian failed to dampen the bright sunshiny spirit at the Chatham Seventh-day Adventist Church in St James as the members honoured local community stalwarts, Glenis Rose and Olga Cousley, on Saturday,...

Published:Sunday | February 13, 2022 | 12:06 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT AND and Mining Minister Audley Shaw has announced that construction of a fire station for the Ian Fleming International Airport in St Mary is slated to begin next month, with a deadline for completion by the end of this...

Published:Sunday | January 9, 2022 | 12:08 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Juliet* looks back ruefully on a time when her trust was betrayed by a supposed friend who absconded on bail after she stood as surety for the woman in a larceny case – something she is determined will never happen again. “Even...

Published:Sunday | November 21, 2021 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Questions abound in Kissy Manning’s mind regarding her brother Celas Clarke’s treatment while he was in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, recently. In particular, the injuries she saw...

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:13 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Hartley Perrin, the chairman of the Westmoreland-based Clifton Boys’ Home, has described as “troubling” the latest news surrounding the arrest of three of the facility’s former employees for allegedly physically abusing...

Published:Sunday | March 7, 2021 | 12:12 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Grief. Anxiety. Stress. Depression. Loneliness. Fear. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused varying degrees of mental and emotional anguish over the past year with disruption to routines and losses – of income, jobs, loved ones –...

Published:Sunday | January 24, 2021 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Carlette DeLeon, managing director of public relations firm Breakthrough Communications, believes that outdoor social activities must reopen fully in order for Jamaica’s entertainment industry – which has taken a hit due to the...

Published:Sunday | May 31, 2020 | 12:07 AMChristopher Thomas - Sunday Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: “He wasn’t getting good treatment up there at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) and he could have lived a little longer.” That’s how a distraught Sophia Holness summed up the situation after her spouse, 66-year-old Hopeton Martin,...

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