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...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Dr Mark Smith believes addressing proper parenting in the home is key to stopping school violence, which he says must not be handled separately from violence at the societal level....
WESTERN BUREAU: Contrary to the belief that former Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) president La Sonja Harrison had not approved of the wage agreement signed with the Government in 2023, outgoing JTA president Leighton Johnson said that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mark Smith, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), wants a review of how examinations such as the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) are administered to ensure that students maintain an interest in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mugwena Maluleke, the president of Education International, says the working conditions of Jamaican teachers and their salaries must be improved to prevent the worsening problem of teachers migrating for better-paying jobs...
WESTERN BUREAU: A heated exchange erupted on Monday between outgoing Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Leighton Johnson and the president-elect for 2025-2026, Mark Malabver, over a lawsuit filed against the organisation by former...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorneys attached to the Cornwall Bar Association (CBA) yesterday morning took issue with the court after learning that there would be a protracted delay in the handling of their clients’ cases, including matters which are set...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former United States military servicewoman, who was arrested on August 3, after a magazine containing 10 live rounds of ammunition was found in her luggage on her arrival in Jamaica, had her bail extended until September 18 when...
WESTERN BUREAU: Retired St James-based football referee Alva ‘Second’ Gordon was all smiles as he was presented with the Mayor of Montego Bay’s Special Award at Tuesday’s annual Spirit of Independence Civic and Awards ceremony in the western parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mickel Jackson, the executive director of local human rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice [JFJ], says the slow pace at which the case against three police officers who were charged in connection with the 2014 death of Mario Deane, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ten years after her son, Mario Deane, was killed while in police custody at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, Mercia Fraser is stepping up her efforts to get justice for him. Speaking with The Gleaner...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE CREATIVITY expressed through visual arts is not a vocation pursued by many young people in Jamaica, for 36-year-old Christopher Scott, it has been his passion from childhood. Scott, a native of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is confident that with St James’ crime statistics up to August 3, recording 42 fewer murders compared to the same period in 2023, the municipality is progressing in its objective of creating a safer...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Adelphi and the surrounding districts in St James are of mixed views about plans to develop the community into a satellite township, a promise which was first made in 2011. After the Member of Parliament for St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Daniel Jones, the St James man charged with the January 5, 2024 murder of 24-year-old Shacquim Lindsay, who was shot dead in downtown Montego Bay, is booked to stand trial in the St James Circuit Court on September 16, following his...
WESTERN BUREAU: A Frenchman who is accused of swallowing 110 pellets of cocaine, which he had planned to smuggle out of Jamaica, made his first appearance in the St James Parish Court last Friday and was instructed to retain the services of a...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation [StJMC] is seeking to partner with corporate entities and outreach organisations in Montego Bay to paint art murals at select locations across the western city as part of an effort to promote...
WESTERN BUREAU: “They came in with guns pointing in our faces, shouting at us to get up and come out, and frightening the children,” said a former member of the controversial Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group, while giving evidence in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The students of Dumfries Primary School in Dumfries, St James, will have expanded classroom spaces when school resumes in September, with the construction of a new school building by the Canadian outreach group, Helping Hands...
WESTERN BUREAU: Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who was arrested on May 9 for attempting to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine out of Jamaica, pleaded guilty to the charges against him, and is to be sentenced on September 11. Crawford,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who was allegedly caught trying to smuggle cocaine valued at J$28.3 million out of the island, via the Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay, St James, on May 9, was remanded in custody...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three weeks after the bridge leading into their community was partially destroyed by fire, causing a part of the structure to collapse, residents of Cornwall Court in Montego Bay, St James, are calling on the authorities to ensure...
