WESTERN BUREAU: A team of Caribbean leaders, joined by officials from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), is expected to arrive in the island this morning to tour hurricane-ravaged communities in western Jamaica today, alongside Prime...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Indian community in Montego Bay, St James, has raised $10 million to support recovery efforts across the parish and has committed to help restore one of the worst-affected schools in the southern region following the devastation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s motorsport community is celebrating a landmark achievement after race car drivers Senna Summerbell and Christopher Issa made history in Italy this past weekend, becoming the first Jamaicans to win a European Drivers...
WESTERN BUREAU: As three rivers and storm surge buried Catherine Hall and Westgreen under mud and debris, tempers flared this week as residents demanded urgent national intervention, saying repeated flooding has left them traumatised and fearing...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean relief community is hailing the Cayman Islands-based missionary Alexander Wurm as a true hero, a man whose final flight embodied selfless love and service to Jamaica. The pastor and his 22-year-old daughter, Serena,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa battered Jamaica’s tourism belt, the Iberostar Rose Hall complex in Montego Bay, St James, roared back to life on Monday, welcoming its first new guests with drumming, dancing, and the unmistakable...
WESTERN BUREAU: There aren’t enough vendors to serve the crowds of foodies who still converge nightly on the Fort Street jerk chicken strip, as Montego Bay slowly claws its way back to normality after Hurricane Melissa’s destruction. Fort Street...
WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth’s popular Bend-Down Market is on course to reopen on Wednesday, just under two weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through the historic town, leaving widespread destruction. Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager indicated on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The devastation in Falmouth, Trelawny, rivals that of Black River, St Elizabeth, according to Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie, who described the post-hurricane destruction there as “...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Category 5 Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica on October 28, thousands of families were left without electricity, gas, or clean water. In the storm’s aftermath, RIU Resorts Jamaica has joined forces with World Central...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica as a Category Five storm on October 28, thousands of tourism workers were left homeless, jobless, and uncertain. Now, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) has stepped in with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Architectural designer and construction project manager Curtis Hylton believes that it is time for Jamaica to embrace a housing model once dismissed as “unconventional” - retrofitted container homes - as a practical solution for...
Western Bureau: The Chinese community in western Jamaica has secured more than $100 million in aid support to help families left homeless by Hurricane Melissa, dispatching busloads of care packages and planning to provide temporary housing across...
When Hurricane Melissa flattened crops and stripped Jamaica’s hillsides bare, few thought about the smallest victims – the bees. But for Laura Littlebear of Greater Good Charities, saving these pollinators is key to rebuilding the island’s...
Western Bureau: The powerful Category 5 Hurricane Melissa battered Hanover, Westmoreland, Trelawny, St Elizabeth, and sections of St James, forcing temporary hotel closures and displacing hundreds of hospitality workers. Yet Jamaica’s tourism...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Fernando Davis stepped out last Saturday morning, four days after Hurricane Melissa battered Jamaica, he thought recovery had begun…with money in his account, a charged phone, and errands to run. However, the first stop at a...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Hurricane Melissa howled through Montego Bay, St James, most of the tourism capital’s guests prayed for safety. Gregory McMichael got something more – comfort, care, and the calm assurance that he wasn’t alone. Sheltered...
WESTERN BUREAU: When guests walk into the grand atrium of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, few realise that behind the scenes of its bustling restaurants, banquet halls, and 5,000-seat ballroom is a Jamaican at the helm: Executive Chef Rohan Leach....
WESTERN BUREAU: Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay was the backdrop for a poignant moment on Wednesday as Mayor Richard Vernon proclaimed October 4 as Mount Alvernia Chetwood Day. The occasion, part of the centennial legacy of three of Montego Bay’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The scent of jerk spice filled the terrace at Hyatt Ziva and Zilara Montego Bay, but something far richer was simmering, a story of perseverance, empowerment, and Jamaican pride. Executive Sous Chef Mernel Casey and Chef de Cuisine...
WESTERN BUREAU: For Richard Ferdinand, the courts of the Tryall Club in Hanover have never just been about tennis. For three decades, the Trinidadian-born director has used them as a platform to mentor, uplift and transform. The result: more than 4...
WESTERN BUREAU: Breast cancer remains one of Jamaica’s most personal and painful battles, a disease that has touched countless mothers, daughters, sisters, and even men. It’s a fight that tests courage, drains families emotionally and financially...
WESTERN BUREAU: At the Boardwalk Shopping Village along Norman Manley Boulevard in Negril — Jamaica’s Capital of Casual — a quiet culinary revolution is unfolding. It’s here that Matthew Wallace, chef, foodie, and one of the founders of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s tourism juggernaut continued its reign at the World Travel Awards (WTA) on Saturday night, capturing an impressive 45 honours, 29 regional Caribbean awards and 16 national titles, during a glittering ceremony staged at...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forty-two Jamaican students are celebrating a life-changing boost to their education, after being named recipients of the Lynne Mitchell Foundation (LMF) 2025 scholarships. The awards, valued at a record $21 million, were presented...
