WESTERN BUREAU: Michael McAnuff-Jones, the vice-president of the Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ), is hopeful that the Government will abide by a list of recommendations asking for parliamentarians to be paid based on...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rohan Cummings, the western Jamaica businessman who was reportedly held with cocaine valued at US$850,000 (J$130,008,520) in a bus he was driving, will know his fate on July 5 when the verdict in the case is handed down in the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Floyd Green, the newly appointed minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining, says he will be engaging stakeholders in the mining sector over the next three weeks to determine how to strengthen Jamaica’s local mining industry....
WESTERN BUREAU: Vivion Scully, former head of Global Digital Services at the Jamaica Promotions Corporation [JAMPRO], is now the new chief executive officer of the Agro-Investment Corporation [AIC]. His appointment became effective on Thursday, May...
WESTERN BUREAU: The planned committal hearing for Kirk ‘Kirky’ Lawson, the St James man who is accused of shooting and injuring a policeman during a gun battle in February, has been rescheduled for July 21 in the St James Parish Court. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR DAY 2023 activities were largely quiet on Tuesday, with members of St James’ civic and political leadership uniting for the parish’s main project, planting trees at the Salt Spring Primary and Infant School. The activity was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister (West), is vowing that the ongoing construction of the Montego Bay Perimeter Road will not be allowed to create the level of inconvenience residents in eastern Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ashanta Ferguson, the British woman who was arrested last November after she was caught trying to smuggle four and a half pounds of cocaine onto an outgoing flight to England, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. Ferguson was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Loran Bartley, a British national who was arrested in connection with attempts to smuggle cocaine on to a flight destined for England on May 6, has been sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment by the St James Parish Court. Bartley, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following Wednesday night’s double murder in Bogue Village, which took place just over 24 hours after a state of emergency (SOE) was declared in St. James, National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang is giving assurance that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATION MINISTER Fayval Williams says her ministry will be partnering with the Ministry of Justice to train 30,000 students in restorative justice practices during the 2023-24 financial year in the hope that it will reduce...
WESTERN BUREAU: JASON ROSE, the St James pastor accused of raping a teenage girl in 2021, will stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on November 27, along with his wife and the mother of the complainant. Rose, his wife Kehmi Rose, and the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Maxim Marquez, the vice-president and regional director of agencies at the Pan American Life Insurance Group, has joined the illustrious list of persons who have been inducted into the Caribbean Association of Insurance and...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett is projecting that Jamaica could earn US$4.5 billion (J$696 trillion) in tourism revenue for 2023, a significant increase over the US$3.64 billion earned in 2019, the year before the onset of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: YOUTH ADVOCATE Christina Howell, who is also an attorney-at-law, is urging Jamaicans to be proactive in seeking information about the constitutional reform process, instead of expecting details of the process to be delivered to them...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LONGSTANDING trial of four businessmen, who are accused of being major players in a drug-smuggling and money-laundering scheme between Jamaica and the United States, was deferred to July 7 in the St James Parish Court yesterday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at yesterday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation expressed alarm at the spate of murders that have rocked the parish in recent weeks, including three double murders over the past two weeks. Michael...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says that if there is no favourable response to the organisation’s concerns about educators’ compensation negotiations, it will indicate that the Government...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three former Sangster International Airport employees who are now facing drug smuggling charges will know their fate this Thursday, pending a full assessment of the case by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)....
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore is urging parents to be more proactive in raising and disciplining their children and to give more support to the nation’s educators. Moore made the call on Sunday while addressing the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Charles ‘Ras Negus’ Largie, the high-profile Montego Bay-based Rastafarian who was recently arrested by the St James police after he was found with two pounds of ganja which he claimed was for sacramental purposes, will know whether...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROHAN ROSE, the security guard charged with misprision of a felony about the 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, has been committed to stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on September 21. The 47...
WESTERN BUREAU: CHAD AND Sheena Headley, the St James couple who were arrested last year June after cocaine valued at $85 million was allegedly found at their home, were committed to stand trial in the St James Parish Court on June 9, following...
WESTERN BUREAU: SHADOW MINISTER of Transport and Works Mikael Phillips has accused the Government of turning a blind eye to problems affecting the island’s transport sector, including recent strikes by bus operators and other employees of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Psychologist Dr Orlean Brown-Earle believes that more education is needed for parents of autistic children to accept their children’s developmental challenges and to move towards moulding them into independent adults. “Dealing with...
