Western Bureau: Twenty-seven-year-old schoolteacher Phelesia Ricketts-Graham, who had always harboured ambitions of becoming a justice of the peace (JP), was among the 33 persons commissioned into office during an installation ceremony for new JPs...
WESTERN BUREAU: Because of the partisan nature of Jamaica’s politics, the diehard supporters of the two major political parties tend to place hype over substance. However, for South Trelawny tailor Bradley Sterling, a perennial supporter of his...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Prime Minister Andrew Holness visiting Troy in Trelawny Southern last week to personally inspect the site of the collapsed bridge, residents are feeling more hopeful than ever that a new structure will be erected to ease the...
Western Bureau: Two Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors and some of their supporters took to the streets in Albert Town, Trelawny yesterday to make an urgent plea to their party’s leadership to approve Marisa ‘Mama D’ Dalrymple-Philibert as the...
Western Bureau: Sherwood Content, in Trelawny, the home district of track icon Usain Bolt, has churned out another newsmaker, the sprightly Hortense Levy, who celebrated her 100th birthday on September 23, and is full of life and quite active....
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents in proximity to the Falmouth Hospital and surrounding communities in Trelawny will now have access to diagnostic services thanks to an arrangement that was recently signed between Omega Medical Services and the Western...
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA EGG Farmers Association President Mark Campbell says Jamaica could face a shortage of eggs this Christmas season as production has fallen since Hurricane Beryl impacted several farmers across the island. “Most farmers who...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Trelawny Southern Member of Parliament (MP) Devon McDaniel has his eyes set on again vying for the seat, which has remained vacant since the resignation of Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert last September. McDaniel, a furniture...
WESTERN BUREAU: Long-serving Justice of peace, businessman Ken Grant, was re-elected to serve a second term as president of the Trelawny Justice of the Peace Association (TJPA) at the association’s second annual general meeting (AGM), which was...
Western Bureau: Dr Dayton Campbell, general secretary of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP), is calling for the government to provide greater support to local farmers, who, he says, despite their critical role in feeding the nation, are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Popular funeral home director, Paul Patmore, was officially unveiled by Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Thursday night as the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for Trelawny Southern at a colourful constituency conference in...
Western Bureau: More than 520 persons, ranging in ages from two years old to 92 years old, got a day to remember last Saturday when they were the recipients of healthcare and other benefits at the sixth staging of the annual Global Health Fair in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has expressed satisfaction with the present physical state of the Falmouth Hospital, Trelawny. The Type C medical facility has taken on a modern, new look following an investment of...
Western Bureau: The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has settled it candidate selection in Trelawny North with Dr Wykeham McNeill being installed as the party’s caretaker during a constituency meeting on Sunday. Businessman Dennis Meadows...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN THE Hussey family, through their Everglades Farms Limited, leased the Trelawny-based Hampden Sugar Estates from Sugar Company of Jamaica Limited in 2009, the initial plan was to expand both sugar and rum production. However,...
Health services are the worst hit due to the loss of electricity as residents and businesses in Trelawny Southern continue to feel the effects of Hurricane Beryl. An uncommonly strong early-season weather system, Beryl lashed Jamaica at Category 4...
The Jamaica Egg Farmers Association is reporting a significant loss in production since the passing of Hurricane Beryl. Mark Campbell, president of the association, told The Gleaner that production has fallen by one-fifth since the Category 4...
Lincoln Nicholson, an exporter of yams from Trelawny, has added a by-product from his fields and is now producing yam vodka. Nicholson, who was born in Miami, Florida, to Jamaican parents, is a graduate of Florida International University. He has...
With a promise to walk the “hills and valleys”, Wykeham McNeill says he will be dedicating all his efforts to winning the Trelawny Northern seat for the People’s National Party (PNP) in the next general election. McNeill, a former minister of...
DEVON MCDANIEL, a 51-year-old furniture business operator from Warsop in Trelawny, is set to represent the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the next general election in South Trelawny. The seat became vacant in September 2023 when member of parliament...
The $700-million artisan village in Falmouth is set for opening today, March 20. At a sensitisation meeting recently, Manager Carol Rose-Brown shared that Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlet is scheduled for a walk-through of the facility, to which...
WESTERN BUREAU: Public cemeteries which fall under the management of the islands’s municipalities are set to benefit from a $200-million maintenance programme. The announcement came from Desmond McKenzie, minister of local government and community...
Donovan White, the deputy mayor in the last Trelawny Municipal Corporation, was unsuccessful in his bid to retain the Duncans division in the recently concluded local government elections. This result has opened a can of worms within the Jamaica...
Plans for the erection of a statue to sprint icon Usain Bolt, and an overhaul of the sewage system along Tharpe Street, are among the litany of broken promises residents of Trelawny say have been made by their elected representatives over the last...
Wakefield Primary in Trelawny has embarked on a model climate-smart garden project, with the aim to start a breakfast programme and boost attendance among its students. Principal Michael James explained that the initiative, which involves the...
