WESTERN BUREAU: While Bertel Moore is preparing to ride off into the political sunset when the next local government election is called, the People’s National Party (PNP) stalwart is confident that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will never take...
WESTERN BUREAU: While cognisant of health and safety considerations, Falmouth’s Mayor Collin Gager says there will be no displacement of vendors from the streets of the Trelawny parish capital, at the behest of the business community, to facilitate...
WESTERN BUREAU: A multi-agency team, led by the St James Public Health Department, has been mandated to carry out a cleansing and sanitising operation at the controversial Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, which was the scene...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a commendable act of caring and sharing, guidance counsellors in training at the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) in Granville, St James, recently joined forces with Food For The Poor to provide much-needed care packages to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) has collaborated with the Inter-American Development Bank and Compete Caribbean to provide sexual harassment training for managers and other senior officials in the private and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Janet Silvera, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), has taken the Professor Archibald McDonald-led Cornwall Regional Hospital’s (CRH) independent oversight committee to task for what she says is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Yangsen Li, the chairman of the China-Montego Bay Sister City Committee, earlier this week donated 20,000 medical face masks to the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) on behalf of the people of the city of Zhuhai in the People’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) has announced a new eight-member advisory committee to spearhead the drive to speed up the ongoing restoration work now taking place at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH),...
WESTERN BUREAU: While teachers have been said to have numbered among the membership of the controversial Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Montego Bay, St James, the island’s largest public sector union for educators is not...
WESTERN BUREAU A project geared towards building out Jamaica’s first underwater sculpture park commenced in Montego Bay on Saturday. The initiative began with the benevolence of Smileozone Waste Management Company, which donated the first of...
WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) councillors in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) have issued a call for the Integrity Commission to investigate the decision by Daniel Lawrence, member of parliament (MP) for Eastern...
WESTERN BUREAU As St James continues to bleed at the hands of criminals, the parish’s custos, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, is urging law-abiding citizens to unite in a bid to take back their communities with a view of creating the peace and tranquillity...
WESTERN BUREAU: Veteran journalist Clinton Pickering and radio and television technical officer Byron McDonald were among 26 residents of St James who received special National Heroes Day recognition for their contribution to the national life in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THE St James Police Benevolent Foundation (StJPBF) now up and running, thanks to a J$1.5-million financial input from a philanthropist, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has said police officers in the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams has said that despite many notable achievements over the last four decades, the Second City is being held back from realising its true potential by challenging social issues. Montego Bay, which is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Players in the island’s global services – formerly business process outsourcing (BPO) – sector are aiming to generate some 7,500 new jobs by March 2022, bringing the total numbers of persons employed to upwards of 50,000. Gloria...
WESTERN BUREAU: Morland Wilson, the member of Parliament for Westmoreland Western, is calling for the $42 million, which was granted to the parish municipal corporation for the Savanna-la-Mar Infirmary project, to be withdrawn, citing poor...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some 26 young men and women from western Jamaica, who are now pursuing studies at some of the island’s universities, have been selected to share $2.9 million in scholarship funds, courtesy of the Joe and Angella Whitter Foundation...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the global services sector is pushing to have at least 70 per cent of its 44,000-strong workforce inoculated against SARS-CoV-2 by the end of the year, a number of private-sector bodies are calling on the Government to make...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) says it has the expertise required to resettle the approximately 300 squatters now occupying Crown lands earmarked for further development in the town of Negril in Westmoreland. The property in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Radhica Newell, the health education officer at the St Elizabeth Health Department, says the use of technology to distribute approximately $1 million to frontline healthcare workers by WiPay Jamaica will play a part in the national...
WESTERN BUREAU:SEVERAL PROMINENT stakeholders in Westmoreland are clamouring for the Old Fort site in Savanna-la-Mar to be developed as both a tourist attraction and a logistic hub for commercial goods. In the era when sugar was the central part of...
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESSMAN EGERTON Forrester, the president of the St James chapter of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ), says going forward, his association will be operating as a ‘union’ to advocate for better working conditions...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin has warned justices of the peace (JPs) in the western parish about manufacturing and using seals that are not issued by the Ministry of Justice, saying it is bringing their office into...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FACTORIES Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) is to meet with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to discuss plans for the long-awaited new town centre for the tourist resort of Negril, Westmoreland. The FCJ intends to request that the...
