WESTERN BUREAU: There was a heated exchange between councillors Charles Sinclair and Michael Troupe during the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) monthly meeting last Thursday over Troupe’s insistence that persons are reportedly removing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has renewed calls for residents of St James, particularly in the parish capital, to take greater responsibility for waste disposal, warning that current practices could lead to a health crisis....
WESTERN BUREAU: Dillon Reid, the St James man charged in relation to the October 2024 hit-and-run death of 44-year-old Police Constable Linroy Codner, has had his bail extended to May 7 following his first appearance in the St James Parish Court to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Constable Orville Williams, the police witness currently testifying in the trial of three police personnel charged in the beating death of Mario Deane, admitted under cross-examination yesterday that Deane was arguing with another...
WESTERN BUREAU: Corporal Orville Williams, who was the subofficer on duty at the lock-up at the Barnett Street Police Station, in Montego Bay, St James, when Mario Deane suffered a fatal beating on August 3, 2014, positively identified two of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Circuit Court has granted an application for two prosecution witnesses to give evidence via the online platform in the triple murder case against music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and Tajay Clarke, who are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kevin Francis, whose absence derailed Monday’s scheduled sitting in the trial of the three police personnel charged in the Mario Deane beating death case, was back on the stand today but it was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The third day of the trial of the three police officers charged in connection with the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane was adjourned after five minutes as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kevin Francis, who was slated to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and his co-accused, Tajay Clarke, who are charged with a triple murder committed in Rose Heights, St James, in 2022, will learn next Tuesday if an overseas prosecution witness will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the empanelling of a jury for the trial of the three police officers implicated in the death of Mario Deane finally taking place, human-rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is calling for an examination of the circumstances...
WESTERN BUREAU: Yesterday’s much-anticipated start of the trial of three police officers, who are facing a range of charges in connection with the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane, did not get under way as one of the seven jurors empanelled on...
Western Bureau: After more than a decade of frustration as she waited with trepidation for the start of the trial of the three police officers implicated in the beating death of her son, Mario Deane’s mother, Mercia Fraser, says she is finally...
WESTERN BUREAU: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says her office would have no grounds to appeal the suspended sentence handed down to Delroy Rodney, whose dangerous driving caused the deaths of five persons in 2023. Rodney,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students of the Chetwood Memorial Primary School, in Montego Bay, St James got a special hands-on agricultural experience yesterday when they created their very own school garden under the school’s Quality Educator Circle (QEC) 29-...
WESTERN BUREAU: No sooner had Joy Smith heard that the man accused of killing her daughter had met his demise in an alleged police confrontation on Tuesday than she and close relatives and friends made their way to Dovecot Cemetery to celebrate the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and his co-defendant Tajay Clarke, who are charged with a triple murder committed in Rose Heights, St James, on May 25, 2022, will learn on March 4 if the St James Circuit Court will allow...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says the disruption caused by a sick-out by medical consultants over retroactive salary payments on Monday – and which could continue today – is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Circuit Court is expected to hear today whether a prosecution witness in the case of popular music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and his co-accused, Tajay Clarke, who are charged with three counts of murder, will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ezekiel Clarke, the pastor of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Praise Temple in Falmouth, Trelawny, believes that Jamaica has taken its various blessings and advantages for granted and needs to return to godly principles in order...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is expressing confidence that, with the newly opened catheterisation laboratory for heart-related medical procedures at the Hospiten health facility, St James has now broadened its capacity to meet...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has declared that Jamaica’s healthcare system is now stronger than it was five years ago, thanks to local and international partnerships. Speaking at the official opening of a new...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sabrina Marshall expressed disappointment after Thursday’s sentencing of Delroy Rodney, the Westmoreland cabbie who pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of her mother and four other passengers in a 2023 traffic crash. Rodney was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Four longtime employees of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) were recently honoured at the parish level for their unwavering commitment and over 25 years of service. This recognition comes just three months after they...
WESTERN BUREAU: Morland Wilson, the member of parliament (MP) for Westmoreland Western, is hitting back at criticisms by People’s National Party’s (PNP) officials of the Government’s proposal to build the Negril International Airport – a project...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mickel Jackson, the director of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), is hoping that the Westmoreland police will be able to empanel a jury for the trial of the three police officers charged in connection with the death of Mario Deane,...
