WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said that local tourism stakeholders and their global counterparts will no longer have the luxury of hoarding ideas but will now be forced to cooperate if they hope to attain sustainability and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thanks to the legacy benefit that has flowed out of the build phase of the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mt Salem, St James, a section of the community’s primary and infant school, which was condemned and was out of use for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed concerns that criminal gangs could threaten the sovereignty of Jamaica if they are not rigorously pursued and nullified with the use of extra security powers, such as the state of...
Western Bureau Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang, the member of parliament (MP) for St James North Western, says the practice of distributing plyboards and zinc to the poor by politicians is helping to keep many Jamaicans trapped in...
WESTERN BUREAU: With a proper house to create a home for her four children, Marva Mason of Quarry district in St James, who became the nation’s latest recipient of a house under the Government’s social housing programme, has been given a special...
WESTERN BUREAU: The new Mount Salem Police Station in Montego Bay, which is a legacy project tied to the zone of special operations (ZOSO), which was declared in the St James community in 2017, was officially handed over by Prime Minister Andrew...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Marva Mason clutched the keys to her new home in St James, she remembered the discomfort of setting a container to catch rainwater on one side of her bed as she slept in her ramshackle wooden dwelling. Mason, who lives in Quarry...
WESTERN BUREAU: Oyster farmers in Westmoreland who depend heavily on the fortunes of the tourism industry are lamenting an anaemic market that has left them with a stockpile of approximately 21,600 molluscs valued at $3.6 million. Demetrius Samuels...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James East Central Member of Parliament Edmund Bartlett says he wants to see the wheel of justice start turning in his constituency, and against that background, he will be lobbying for an outstation of the St James Parish Court...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland’s shortage of medical doctors has been described as a crisis, with a vocal municipal councillor charging that the parish is short of 250 physicians. Citing that Westmoreland had a population of approximately 150,000,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lovina Vanriel and Denton Scott were among the many residents of Adelphi district, in St James, who showed up on Thursday to watch National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, and Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Grange Hill Councillor Lawton McKenzie is blaming the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) for what he has described as extensive damage to the Belle Isle Community Centre in his division. JDF personnel reportedly used the building as their...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Management committee of the 57-year-old Type B Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital in Westmoreland is bemoaning the fact that some 25 persons who have been abandoned by their relatives are now taking up much-needed bed space...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Quarry district in St James have welcomed the decision to have Caribbean Cement Company (CCCL) rehabilitate the main road leading into their community, using asphalt concrete, which is believed to be excellent in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Dawnette Foster, who has taken over from George Wright as the Jamaica Labour Party caretaker for Westmoreland Central, recently ruffled political feathers in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) when she raised...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang says no action will be taken against party workers who opt to continue supporting George Wright, the scandal-scarred Westmoreland Central member of parliament (MP) who has...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an efforts to rein in the lawlessness that has been stifling the community of Norwood in St James, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, who is also the member of parliament for that area, says active consideration is being...
WESTERN BUREAU: In a rather unusual concession, Joshua Cummings, councillor for the Montego Bay Central division, which covers the volatile Norwood community, has admitted to interacting with known violence producers, but says he has never...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay developer Mark Kerr-Jarrett is backing the allocation of more lands to expand the Granville community in St James, but is wary of a property grab by squatters. Kerr-Jarrett, a former president of the Montego Bay Chamber...
WESTERN BUREAU: The decision from Thursday’s disciplinary hearing involving Karen Cross will be submitted to the People’s National Party’s (PNP) executive within a week, says attorney-at-law Stacey Knight, chairperson of the party’s disciplinary...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland’s Custos the Reverend Hartley Perrin believes a contingent of well-trained justices of the peace (JPs) could help to reverse the ugly crime statistics in that parish, through processes such as early intervention to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the newly declared zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood have disputed the assertion of Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson that six gangs operate in the violence-plagued northwestern Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cognisant of claims that some justices of the peace (JPs) are illicitly charging the public, Westmoreland Custos the Reverend Hartley Perrin has reminded 37 newly installed officers that their services must be voluntary. Perrin,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding has said that Jamaica is now reaping the ill-effects of the Government’s negligence in securing adequate COVID-19 vaccines, which has now forced them to be staggering people to get their second jab....
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the Vaughnsfield Housing Scheme in St James are elated at the news that thanks to a joint project between the St James Municipal Corporation and the National Housing Trust Scheme Upgrading Programme, $34 million will be...
