WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Justice Bryan Sykes will be the keynote speaker for the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Annual Awards Banquet scheduled for Saturday, December 2, at the Montego Bay Convention Centre. The event, a fixture on...
WESTERN BUREAU: SOUTH ST James will be converted into a thriving agricultural zone, according to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, as part of an effort to generate economic prosperity for the residents of those farming communities. He said that he...
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer in St James Southern, Nekeisha Burchell, has labelled as sexist and deeply disrespectful remarks made about her personal appearance at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) conference in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: MOSES CHYBAR, head of the Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says several businesses have reported minor damage to their business establishments following yesterday’s earthquake. Noting that it was still early to get a...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says Jamaica wants to see the human rights of all people respected, this after his administration missed out on a crucial vote on the war in the Middle East. Holness’ stance on people’s human rights...
WESTERN BUREAU JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang has pledged that Andrew Holness will continue to lead the party and serve as prime minister until its 90th anniversary. “The Labour Party is celebrating 80 years as a...
WESTERN BUREAU: George Wright, the self-proclaimed independent member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, is urging Prime Minister Andrew Holness to accelerate the regularisation of squatter communities in the parish in order to enable access...
WESTERN BUREAU: Last week, 32 National Housing Trust (NHT) contributors were handed the keys to their new homes in the Shrewsbury Housing Development in Petersfield, Westmoreland. In doing the handover to 25 of the 32 beneficiaries, Prime Minister...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says the National Housing Trust (NHT) has been hampered in meeting its projected target of delivering 43,000 new housing solutions due to a variety of challenges. They include financing, connecting...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is pleading with the country’s electorate not to lose focus on or faith in his Government’s ability to deliver the prosperity it promised. “Don’t lose...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS COVERING all forms, including past students of Manning’s School in Westmoreland, benefitted from the benevolence of the members of the Manning’s School Class of 1982 Trust, who invested approximately $1 million in providing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Horace Chang, deputy prime minister and minister of national security, says work on upgrading the police telecommunication system is nearing completion. As a consequence, he said, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be...
High Life Restaurant, located near Negril’s seven-mile beach, held its soft opening beneath the stars, affording diners a spectacular 180-degree view of the Caribbean sea from West Cliff Estate in Westmoreland, overlooking the island’s deep West...
WESTERN BUREAU: Derrick Sangster, the mayor of Black River in St Elizabeth, has stated that the Jamaica Labour Party and the Andrew Holness Cabinet will receive harsh criticism for their performance if voter empathy does not increase in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Christopher Tufton, former deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has warned party members against allowing the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) to win the upcoming local government election by default....
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, the deputy general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for Area Council Four, has urged Labourites to turn out in large numbers to cast ballots in the upcoming local government election, as he anticipates a...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Police have warned that the incident that led to 54 shops being gutted by fire at the Old Shoes Market arcade is likely to be repeated, if those entrepreneurs who operate in that space refuse to communicate with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Holland Bamboo Scenic Avenue in St Elizabeth has begun the last phase of a significant upgrading project to restore the iconic tourist attraction to its former glory days, with the planting of 5,000 bamboo plants. The project, a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy mayor of Montego Bay, Richard Vernon, has promised that displaced vendors from the Old Shoes Market could have new shops to carry out their businesses in time for the Christmas holidays. Vernon said that the St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: Newell High Principal Audrey Ellington has embraced the Ministry of Agriculture’s move to expand its school garden programme to her St Elizabeth-based institution, in a move to boost the ability of schools to feed themselves and...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TOURISM Enhancement Fund (TEF) is seeking to assure residents that the transformation of the Negril Beach Park in Westmoreland will be coming on stream within this fiscal year, ending March 31, 2024. According to Dr Carey...
WESTERN BUREAU: A HORRIFIC motor vehicle accident along the Water Works main road in Westmoreland on Monday evening claimed the lives of four young men, leaving their parents and loved ones in total shock. The victims have been identified as Rekay...
WESTERN BUREAU: MARVALYN PITTER, chief executive officer at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), says she will be seeking the advice of the attorney general about whether a special meeting of the corporation that was held in August was...
WESTERN BUREAU: A TEARY-eyed Bertel Moore, mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, has decried the overcrowding condition at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital accident and emergency ward. He noted that the problem of inadequate bed space at the medical facility must be...
Western Bureau Dr Kasan Troupe, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, is challenging principals and vice-principals to engage in critical thinking, rather than relying solely on the curriculum to ensure that teaching and...
