WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATOR RICHARD Solomon, who won the New Market division on the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) ticket in the February 26 local government elections, was installed Thursday as the new mayor of Black River and chairman of the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THE numbers are not staggering, based on the latest Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) serious crimes report, St Elizabeth has seen the largest increase in sexual offences this year, with six cases. This represents a 400 per...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE ONLY five women will be among the 64 persons who will be sworn in as councillors in five municipal corporations in the county of Cornwall, it is expected that they will all make an impact. In fact, indications are that one of...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO HIGH-POWERED firearms were seized by members of the security forces in a targeted operation in Flanker, St James, yesterday, at a premises believed to be connected to Peter Johnson, the 25-year-old who was shot and killed in an...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE BEING removed as the People’s National Party’s (PNP) provisional candidate for Trelawny North, Dennis Meadows, who remains the party’s chairman for the constituency, has accepted the consequences of action taken against him...
WESTERN BUREAU: On the face of it, it was a case of ‘as you were’ after this week’s local government elections in western Jamaica as the major parties ended up with control over the same municipalities they held going into Monday – a 3-2 split in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SUPPORTERS of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) in St Elizabeth were in high spirits yesterday, the situation was different at the leadership level, where the optimism of recent weeks was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Party loyalty and apathy are upstaging issues in western Jamaica as campaigning for Monday’s local government elections enters the final stretch. Electors in Trelawny, St James, Hanover, Westmoreland, and St Elizabeth readily point...
WESTERN BUREAU: Unlike some of their colleagues who have left their local teaching jobs to pursue more lucrative options in overseas classrooms, many teachers are targetting local politics, especially at the local government level, as an avenue to...
WHEN HE contested and won the Ipswich division in St Elizabeth for the People’s National Party (PNP) in 2016, he did so under the name Prince Mugabe Waite. But come February 26, he will be contesting the 2024 local government election in the same...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN ELECTORS go to the polls on February 26 to cast their votes in the local government elections, one familiar face that will be missing from the list of 499 candidates is perennial independent candidate Ras Astor Black, the...
Western Bureau: When the balance of power in the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) shifted from the People’s National Party (PNP) to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the 2016 local government elections, one of the four PNP survivors was...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEPUTY SPEAKER of Jamaica’s House of Representatives, Heroy Clarke, created history in Luanda, Angola, on Saturday when he was elected as the first president of the Caribbean-European Parliamentary Assembly Organization of Africa,...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN THE People’s National Party (PNP) swept the then 14 local government divisions in St Elizabeth in 2012, not many could have envisioned the stunning reversal as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wrested control of the municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Once a thriving economic centre when the Long Pond Sugar Estates was the hub of sugar production in Trelawny, Clark’s Town has been in dire straits since the factory closed its door to sugar production in 2017. However, last...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH NO new COVID-19 cases in the region in over three weeks and with Hanover still hanging on to the enviable distinction of being the only parish without a case of the deadly virus, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA)...
Western Bureau:Despite ending 2017 as easily the most peaceful of the four western parishes, the police hierarchy in Trelawny will not be resting on its laurels this year and has announced a three-prong crime-fighting strategy to ensure that the...
