WESTERN BUREAU: A senior hospital administrator in western Jamaica has recommended boosting bed capacity by 25 per cent to manage the surge of coronavirus cases. Increasing the bed count from 800 to 1,000 is viewed as critical to hospitals staying...
WESTERN BUREAU: Camille Lewin, the chief executive officer at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland, says several of the social patients living on the hospital’s wards have relatives who visit them every month to cash in on their National...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ginger, garlic, bird pepper. Washing money with bleach and water. That’s the sum total of the immunity or resistance summoned by many residents in Westmoreland, a parish haunted by a rash of coronavirus deaths but where vaccine...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pointing to limited resources, the head of the West Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says that insufficient supplies of protective gear for staff could be behind the rising number of healthcare workers at hospitals contracting COVID...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the number of COVID-19 patients requiring admission continues to climb, the health authorities are looking to partner with nearby schools and churches to expand the medical wards to ease the pressure on the severely strained...
WESTERN BUREAU: St Andrade Sinclair, regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), intends to partner with the municipal corporations in the four parishes it oversees to find alternative accommodation for the 60 social patients...
Western Bureau: Despite losing his Westmoreland Western seat to political neophyte Morland Wilson in the last general election, Peoples National Party (PNP) heavyweight Dr Wykeham McNeill says he has no intention of walking away from...
WESTERN BUREAU: With 29 deaths between August 8 and 15 and some 300 new COVID-19 cases over the past five days, the authorities are now seeking to establish a field hospital in Westmoreland as the pressure mounts on the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in Westmoreland are pushing for the relocation of the Savanna-la-Mar Market, which is located on lower Great George Street, to facilitate the orderly development of the parish capital’s waterfront. “We have to close...
WESTERN BUREAU: As a result of the customary overwhelming demand for space at Cornwall College by students entering the secondary school each year, Janet Silvera, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), believes there...
WESTERN BUREAU: New Fortress Energy and the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) yesterday joined forces in a multimillion-dollar venture, which saw some 1,000 students receiving financial aid to start the new school year. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Courtney Walters, the recently retired chaplain for the Police Area One Division, has taken a parting shot at the Police High Command, saying the organisation is guilty of not treating new recruits and junior police...
WESTERN BUREAU: Wayne Isaacs, a leading investor in the local cannabis sector, says Jamaica must move to increase its clinical trials in the lucrative psilocybin and psychedelic (drug to alter mood) industry or miss multimillion-dollar...
WESTERN BUREAU: Omar Sweeney, deputy chairman of the zone of special operations (ZOSO), says small entrepreneurs in Norwood, St James, will be among the first residents to benefit from social intervention investment strategies, which is one of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite global fears that new variants of COVID-19 could drive economies into the ground, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett said the Government is committed to providing adequate vaccine coverage for the workforce in the hospitality...
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,...
