WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man charged with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is booked to return to the St James Circuit Court on October 18 when two outstanding documents will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is not resisting calls for its members to wear body-worn cameras for the sake of accountability but is insisting that the implementation must be done in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Professor Donovan Campbell, the director of The University of the West Indies’ [UWI] Western Jamaica Campus, believes that the Jamaican society’s expectations of boys and young men must change in order to help them see education as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), in St James, says it will be staging several activities in the lead-up to its 50th anniversary celebration on September 29, 2025. The college’s anniversary celebration, which is being held under...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jill Stewart MoBay City Run charity organisation, formerly the ‘MoBay City Run,’ yesterday, handed out $8 million in scholarship funds to students from several schools in western Jamaica, the first major scholarship donation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Keron Watson, the man who allegedly used social media to lure a woman into committing sexual acts for money in 2017, was again denied bail when he appeared in the St James Circuit Court on Tuesday, despite pleas from his lawyer....
WESTERN BUREAU: Ricardo Bennett, the principal of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC), St James, wants the Government to provide financial assistance to tertiary-level students who want to become teachers. Speaking to journalists following...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight years after Janice Hines was shot and injured when police officers fired on a taxi she was in during a high-speed chase in St James, her lawyer is accusing the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) of ignoring their attempts to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police Linroy Edwards, operations officer for the St James Police Division, has reported that a firearm that was taken from Joseph McKenzie, one of St James’ most wanted men who was captured last month, has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St James, says the parish’s Aedes index, which measures the spread of mosquito breeding, has seen a two per cent decline since June, and now stands at 11 per cent. In...
WESTERN BUREAU: A vendor filmed urinating in a container and then transferring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, has been slapped with six charges. Sherika Lewis, the acting chief public health inspector for St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who plead guilty to trying to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James, is to be sentenced on September 18. Crawford, a 44-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Collel Blake, the parish manager for the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) St James parish office, believes that Jamaican young people should be given more avenues to access information on their culture, including...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students from several schools across St James were given a chance to learn more about the life and work of Jamaica’s cultural icon, Dr the Honourable Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett Coverley, thanks to Monday’s unveiling of the Miss Lou...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of throwing her five-month-old daughter off the roof of a three-storey building, resulting in the child’s death, is to undergo a committal hearing on September 26 to facilitate the transfer...
WESTERN BUREAU: A female vendor, who was captured on video urinating in a container and then pouring the contents into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market (CGM) in Montego Bay, will face prosecution. Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, the medical...
WESTERN BUREAU: While stating that the 2024-2025 school year started well in western Jamaica yesterday, the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) says some high schools in western Jamaica are still dealing with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several enthusiastic students, many accompanied by their parents, were out early on Monday morning for the start of the 2024-2025 school year in rural St James. Some stood outside the gates of their schools for more than an hour,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay is now home to a new diagnostic medical facility, the ACCULAB Diagnostic Centre, where services are geared toward providing efficient and timely screening of patients, combining modern technology, high-quality business...
WESTERN BUREAU: School administrators in western Jamaica are expressing mixed feelings about the readiness of their institutions ahead of Monday’s start of the new academic year, with availability of school supplies and poor road conditions among...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, says the long-awaited National Identification System (NIDS) should be officially launched by the end of 2024. Dixon, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister and whose portfolio...
WESTERN BUREAU: Totlyn McDonald has every reason to rejoice after achieving first place in CB Food’s PAN 2024 competition on Sunday, where her passion for jerk-pan cooking went on display to help her win the competition’s $1 million prize. McDonald...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) prepares to answer a lawsuit brought against it by one of its own former presidents, there is uncertainty over whether the legal showdown may splinter the 60-year-old organisation or if it...
WESTERN BUREAU: The appearance of disgraced former Education Minister Ruel Reid at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA’s) just-concluded 60th annual conference is not a surprise to educators who attended the event, with some saying he was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mickel Jackson, the executive director of Jamaicans for Justice, wants the police to demonstrate accountability in the 10-year-old case of Mario Deane by starting the trial of the three officers charged in relation to his death when...
