WESTERN BUREAU: The People’s National Party (PNP) has made significant gains in western Jamaica in Wednesday’s general election, reclaiming six of the 12 seats across Hanover, Westmoreland, St James, and Trelawny that were swept by the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Though it represents just 16 per cent of the electorate, western Jamaica is once again expected to play a crucial role in determining the outcome of today’s general election. With 12 seats spread across Hanover, Westmoreland, St...
Western Bureau: There was a sense of relief in St James yesterday as news broke that two alleged gangsters, who were implicated in Saturday night’s gun attack that snuffed out the life of the spouse of a policeman and left him and his five-year-old...
Western Bureau: The St James Police Division, which is enjoying its most tranquil period in two decades, was jolted on Saturday night when the family of a police officer came under a gun attack in Reading, near Montego Bay, resulting in the death...
Western Bureau: The close to 16,000 residents of Cornwall Court in Montego Bay, St James, were up to yesterday still hopping mad as they have faced misery over the past two weeks, struggling to survive without water and with a pile-up of...
WESTERN BUREAU: If current trends hold, the St James Police Division could see 2025 as its best year in crime-fighting in two decades. At present, the parish is seeing at least a 50 per cent reduction in murders, shootings, and rape, which have...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the organisers of Reggae Sumfest 2025 are yet to do their official post-mortem on the festival, Junior Tourism Minister Senator Delano Seiveright has declared it a resounding success in terms of its economic impact, with...
Western Bureau: The latest initiative by the police to break the back of lottery scamming in western Jamaica is seemingly enjoying tremendous success as, since it was launched on June 5, more than J$44 million and US$55,000, alongside 20 high-end...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police are now in a full state of readiness to handle the bumper crowd that is expected in Montego Bay this Friday and Saturday for the two main nights of Reggae Sumfest 2025 at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre....
Western Bureau: The spirit of community was alive and well in Somerton, St James, on Saturday as overseas-based natives and their local counterparts joined forces in handing out thousands of dollars in scholarships, school supplies, and social...
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has restated a pledge to elevate reggae legend Bob Marley and cultural icon Miss Lou to the status of national heroes if his party forms the next Government. Speaking at the PNP’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: HAVING SERVED as a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and an Independent representative at the municipal level, businessman Paul Patmore, who will be representing Trelawny South on the People’s National Party (PNP) ticket in the impending...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Lucien Jones, the vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), wants the police to treat reckless drivers with the same urgency and seriousness as violent criminals. Speaking against the background of Sunday morning’...
Western Bureau: Buoyed by the enthusiastic crowd that greeted their all-island bus tour, which made a mid-morning stop in Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay, St James on Saturday, the People’s National Party (PNP) has made it clear that it will be...
Persons traversing the roadway near the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday morning were greeted with an unfamiliar sight – several billboards nailed to palm trees displaying messages of “Free Gaza” and “No to...
Western Bureau: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), has indicated that normality has been restored at the Cornwall Regional, Falmouth and Savanna-la-Mar hospitals, following two days of protest...
Western Bureau: Two days after St Catherine South Western Member of Parliament Everald Warmington fired off expletives on stage at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) event in Westmoreland, for which he has since apologised, Prime Minister Dr Andrew...
Western Bureau: Controversial South West St Catherine Member of Parliament (MP) Everald Warmington has apologised and withdrawn a statement in which he used an expletive on a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) platform in Westmoreland on Sunday night....
Western Bureau: Dr Dayton Campbell, the People’s National Party (PNP) general secretary, says his party wants to form the next Government of Jamaica because it wants to fix the country’s infrastructure so that the people can enjoy a better...
WESTERN BUREAU: Gavin Myers, a businessman from Darliston, Westmoreland, who was abducted early Tuesday morning by heavily armed men, has reportedly been released and is now reunited with his family. Sources indicate that a ransom was paid to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opal Greenfield was filled with disbelief and sorrow on Tuesday as she faced the painful reality that her 11-year-old son, Desroy Smith Jr, remained missing. He had been swept away by floodwaters on Monday afternoon, and efforts to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prominent ganja advocate Ras Iyah V is calling on the Government to take urgent steps to ensure that police officers and judges fully respect and enforce the legal rights of Rastafarians to use ganja for sacramental purposes. His...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is celebrating a marked decline in major crimes across all divisions since the start of the year, the Westmoreland Division has even greater reason to celebrate recording the most...
Western Bureau: With St James now experiencing a dramatic decline in serious crimes, Montego Bay’s deputy mayor, Councillor Dwight Crawford, last week heaped praise on to the police for their success in blunting the runaway lawlessness which has...
