WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Tanique Bailey-Small, St James’ medical officer of health, has issued a fresh reminder for residents to closely monitor the current spread of vector-borne diseases such as dengue, Chikungunya and the Zika virus, in light of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is confident that the long-standing Bogue lands saga will soon end, with the timeline for that resolution now dependent on how swiftly the current Public Investment Appraisal Branch [PIAB] process...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has granted bail in the sum of $600,000 to a St James man accused of the March 17 shooting death of security officer Nastacia Smith, while his son has been remanded until June 12, when the case will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite experiencing an increase in community waste-collection backlog across St James since February, the National Solid Waste Management Authority [NSWMA] is expressing confidence in its drive to promote and enforce cleanliness...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority is making a fresh appeal for motorists to take greater care along the roadways due to trauma cases depleting the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s [CRH]...
WESTERN BUREAU: As investigations continue into reports that St James High School Principal Joseph Williams expelled two female students in January this year without following due process, the school’s board of management says it has received...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors in the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) are calling for more active intervention strategies targeting young people in the parish, to prevent them from falling into criminality. One strategy currently being utilised...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oppley Ebanks, the St James man who reportedly used a stone to beat another man to death during a confrontation on January 14, has been remanded until May 29 following his latest appearance in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Accommodation stakeholders in Negril, which spans Westmoreland and Hanover, have declared that having spent over $200 million on water storage since March they will not be able to withstand the potential financial fallout from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shane Munroe, chief executive officer (CEO) of MBJ Airports Limited, is hailing the Sangster International Airport’s (SIA) runway extension and associated works project as indicative of the significant potential available for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on central Government to create a special fund geared at financing the western city’s continued development and management, particularly in light of the perpetual tourism traffic brought...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court is expected to issue a request for Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of fatally throwing her five-month-old daughter off a three-storey roof in December 2023, to get psychiatric treatment at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ocean Blue Jamaica Marine Corps (OBJMC) has graduated its first batch of cadets under its present brand which was launched in 2021, with the young graduates from the five-year training course being hailed as prospective leaders...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES HIGH School’s board of management has indicated that it may take another week before its personnel committee will complete its ongoing investigation into accusations that the school’s principal, Joseph Williams, expelled...
WESTERN BUREAU: LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is giving assurance that meetings will soon be held between his ministry and other government portfolio ministries to ensure that the Programme of Advancement Through Health and...
WESTERN BUREAU: “WHAT I need is either for him to stop doing what he’s doing or they remove him from the school, because he can’t just be kicking students out of school.” That was the militant stance of Alicia R., the mother of one of the two...
WESTERN BUREAU: Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that, as part of ongoing efforts to improve service delivery for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), two technical working groups will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Richard Vernon is urging garage and workshop operators in St James to get their businesses regulated within the next two months. Vernon warned that enforcement will take place after that period against any such...
WESTERN BUREAU: LESS THAN two weeks after a fire of reportedly malicious origin completely engulfed her two-bedroom house in Salt Spring, St James, 48-year-old Danette Smith is issuing a heartfelt appeal for help to rebuild so she and her two-year-...
WESTERN BUREAU: “SINCE THE incident, she has locked down, and I am not getting much from her. Even when I ask her about the incident, she is not saying anything to me.” That was the revelation from J. C. [real name withheld on request], the mother...
WESTERN BUREAU: Motorists in St James are expressing concern about the traffic lights at the Westgate intersection in Montego Bay being non-functioning for over a year, despite assurance from the local authorities that the delay in rectifying the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has ordered that Saroyan Brown, the man implicated in the 2022 shooting death of cable technician Kemar Wilson in Catherine Hall, St James, should be held in police custody until May 24, following a failed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seventeen years after he was arrested on cocaine charges and his case adjourned sine die without a clear date for continuation, Mickey Miller left the St James Parish Court a free man after all the charges against him were dismissed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tyrese Hunter, the St James man accused of the 2023 shooting death of 34-year-old vendor Akeem Robinson, which was caught on CCTV footage in Montego Bay, will make his first appearance before the St James Circuit Court on July 22....
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James judge has issued a stern warning to police officers to change their approach to the matter of attendance at court, after she was left fuming on Thursday when one cop was seemingly unduly absent from his assigned case’s...
