WESTERN BUREAU: “Lord, this is what You’re going to do to Your daughter?” Those were the horrified last words of 15-year-old Green Pond High School student Shineka Gray on the night of January 29, 2017, as recounted by murder convict Mario Morrison...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is suggesting that a private wing should be created at Cornwall Regional Hospital [CRH], similar to The University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) Tony Thwaites Wing, to help...
WESTERN BUREAU: GREGORY ROBERTS, the man currently on trial for the 2017 murder of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, reportedly wanted a video to be delivered to his ex-girlfriend shortly after he sent her a text message containing the foreboding word ‘...
WESTERN BUREAU: There were testy exchanges between the defence attorney for Gregory Roberts, the man on trial for the 2017 murder of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, and the prosecution’s fourth witness on Tuesday. The witness was undergoing cross-...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Circuit Court has set January 19, 2024 as the next hearing date for the trial of Jason Rose, the St James-based pastor accused of raping a teenage girl in 2021, and his two co-defendants, in order for the authorities to...
WESTERN BUREAU: “HE ASKED for water to wash off his hands ... . Blood was on his hands.” That was the chilling testimony a civilian witness gave to the St James Circuit Court on Monday regarding Gregory Roberts, who is on trial for the 2017 murder...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Circuit Court is expected to hear testimony on March 15, 2024 as to whether Shemoy Brown, the man who is accused of beheading his mother at their Retirement, St James home in October last year, is fit to plead guilty to...
WESTERN BUREAU: A man who pleaded guilty to smashing a homeless man’s skull has complained to the court that he is being denied food and medical care despite several requests. The man, Rushawn Bulgin, made the declaration during an appearance...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRIAL of Gregory Roberts, the sole remaining defendant in the 2017 murder of 15-year-old Green Pond High School student Shineka Gray, is slated to continue in the St James Circuit Court today, after having started on Thursday....
WESTERN BUREAU: ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER of Police Clifford Chambers, the commanding officer for the Area One police division, is making a fresh appeal for all stakeholders, particularly parents, to join hands with the police in preventing young...
WESTERN BUREAU: JULIET CUTHBERT-Flynn, minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, announced that 25 police stations across Jamaica will be targeted for renovation work valued at $500 million during the upcoming 2024-25 fiscal year....
WESTERN BUREAU: The 16-year-old B.B. Coke High School student who is accused of savagely beating a younger fellow student unconscious for stepping on his shoes, is booked to make his next appearance in the St Elizabeth Parish Court on January 11,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THREE YEARS after being booted from the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) for missing three consecutive meetings without giving prior notice, Sylvan ‘Father Reid’ Reid, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) candidate-caretaker...
WESTERN BUREAU: RECORDING ARTISTE and promoter Nutchell Millings, better known by his stage name ‘Grabba Musiq’, considers himself having taken upward steps from a poverty-led upbringing in the rural district of Perth Town, Trelawny, to performing...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TOURISM Product Development Company (TPDCo) relaunched its flagship Team Jamaica Training Programme last Thursday at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James, as a major step forward to draw potential tourism...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James was mostly overcast but otherwise calm on Friday, with stakeholders adopting a wait-and-see approach while being prepared to act in case of any emergency as an unstable weather system affected the island. Montego Bay Mayor...
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA HOTEL and Tourist Association [JHTA] President Robin Russell is suggesting that programmes like the Tourism Product Development Company’s [TPDCo] Team Jamaica Training Programme should be used to seek potential hospitality...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Perth Town in Trelawny are upset with the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) after enduring months of recurring lengthy power outages, fires on electrical lines during rainy weather, and unsatisfactory responses from...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] is enacting plans to return its signature Christmas tree back to Montego Bay’s Sam Sharpe Square in time for next month’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and concert, after having...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging Jamaicans to adopt a modernised outlook on growing and building Jamaica’s economy, including by way of emphasising workers’ levels of productivity, in order to adequately address and sustain...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 13 members of the Qahal Yahweh religious group who were arrested following a police raid at their Montego Bay compound on June 30 this year may be slapped with more charges when they next appear in the St James Parish Court on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says greater efforts must be made to stop the glorification of Jamaica’s gun culture and punish perpetrators of gun-related crimes. Holness made the declaration on Thursday while visiting the Chetwood...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin is calling on the business community and the wider citizenry to unite against crime and violence in the northwestern parish, which is now blanketted under a state of emergency. Pitkin made the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRIAL of Indra Waite, who allegedly conspired to smuggle over 11 kilogrammes of cocaine on to a flight bound for Canada in 2021, has been rescheduled for continuation in the St James Parish Court on December 5 due to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: RONALDO RICKETTS, the man accused of killing several homeless people in Montego Bay between July and August this year, is to be brought back to the St James Parish Court on December 5 as his case file is still incomplete. Presiding...
