WESTERN BUREAU: Moreland Wilson, the member of parliament for the Westmoreland Western constituency, says the colonial ghost of the sugar cane industry has forced a large portion of his constituents into renting, leasing, and squatting on state-...
WESTERN BUREAU Members of the Jamaican Bar Association believe that legal provisions already exist for criminal matters to be placed before the courts without the cooperation of the complainant. “An assault is an offence against the State and...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Stephina Ralston returned to her home in Warsop, Trelawny, on Tuesday, she was paralysed with fear that the man who had butchered her within an inch of her life was still lurking around. The 23-year-old, who survived several...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Custos Reverend Hartley Perrin has called for the deployment of a heavy concentration of the security forces to stem the rise in violent crime in the parish. Police statistics indicate that the Westmoreland Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has thrown its supports behind a resolution moved by Councillor Sydney Rose of the Treadways division in the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, seeking to force the country’s utility...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Danree Delancy, deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, says he wants the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to investigate the emergence of unauthorised dump sites in the parish, which is hurting garbage-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has been urged to place more focus on primary healthcare so that the health centres can become the first option for persons seeking medical attention. Calvin G. Brown, former chairman of the board at the Cornwall...
WESTERN BUREAU: Andre Brown, the e-commerce entrepreneur service provider who onboarded Montego Bay’s pan chicken vendors by creating an e-commerce website for them to effectively operate under the E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS)...
Minister of Education’s Fayval Williams’ announcement that school would be extended for grade 6 through what should be the start of Summer holidays has not gone down well with teachers, who have not yet had a break, going straight from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twelve farmers, eight women and four men who formerly did their farming in the Negril Morass, are today enjoying much better returns, thanks to a $5-million project spearheaded by the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) and the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With local government elections due in less than a year, some councillors in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) are viewing with suspicion delays in disbursements to the entity’s Parochial Revenue Fund (PRF). But...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 14 councillors of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) have launched a broadside against the leadership of the Association of Local Government Authorities of Jamaica (ALGAJ), saying they are unhappy with the quality of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has come out in support of a resolution in the St Mary Municipal Corporation (StMC) seeking to amend the Integrity Commission Act to reduce the statutory declaration reporting period from...
WESTERN BUREAU Days after the country rolled out its vaccination campaign in search of herd immunity, Dr Marcia Graham, the medical officer of health (MOH) at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, said that the parish’s 34-bed COVID-19 ward is full to capacity and overflowing. “When we look at our isolation ward, we are at 115 per cent...
WESTERN BUREAU: With public hospitals struggling to find bed space to address the growing number of positive COVID-19 cases, the operator of one of the foremost private hospitals in rural Jamaica is expressing a willingness to assist the Government...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has said he will be investigating reports that ‘backyard style’ burials are taking place in the Roaring River community, which could contaminate one of the primary sources of domestic water in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: On a day when the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) COVID-19 cases breached the 6,000 mark, Errol Greene, the authority’s regional director, led the way as medical personnel in western Jamaica got their shot of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin has issued a word of caution to the parish’s newly commissioned justices of the peace (JPs) not to use their office to secure financial gains. The custos’ warning comes against the backdrop of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Approximately 920,000 members of the country’s labour force are excluded from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ work-from-home order aimed at curbing the spike in coronavirus infections. That disclosure was made by David Wan,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former president of the Jamaica Court of Appeal, retired Justice Seymour Panton, has accused some of the country’s educators of not doing enough in the fight to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Panton, who retired from the Bench in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Seymour Panton, retired president of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, has labelled as “time-wasting nonsense”, the ongoing Trafigura court case involving former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and four other People’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: After almost one year of virtual classes for students attending early-childhood through to tertiary educational institutions in Jamaica, clinical psychologist Dr Pearnel Bell is warning against the practice of having children...
WESTERN BUREAU: The $1.3-billion Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay, St James, will be ready to receive members of the public, limited groups of 10, when the latest COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Originally scheduled to be opened today, March 2...
