WESTERN BUREAU: THE MOVE by migrating workers at a hotel construction site in Coopers Pen, Trelawny, to illegally construct makeshift homes and live on lands owned by the National Housing Trust (NHT) has sparked security and health concerns. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Bamboo Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) is on a drive to have Jamaica benefit from this US$60-billion trade globally, with the launch of a bamboo-growing project in Hampden, Trelawny. Kay Farquharson, secretary to the...
THERE was mixed reaction to a suggestion from veteran egg farmer and vice-president of Jamaica Egg Farmers Association (JEFA), Mark Campbell, that producers and consumers of eggs are likely to be benefactors of a centralised egg market. “A...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) is on a path to encourage cattle farmers to plant a special species of grass to enhance Jamaica’s food security, but a couple farmers in Trelawny are not too encouraged as they have not...
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH PRODUCTIVITY skyrocketing 500 per cent since starting the business over a decade ago, the employment future of 150 employees at Hampden Estates Limited is assured, according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Everglades Farms...
WESTERN BUREAU: FORMER JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) senator and three-time losing Trelawny Northern parliamentary candidate Dennis Meadows was greeted with rapturous applause when he entered the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Falmouth Division...
WESTERN BUREAU: A promise made five years ago to construct a fire station in south Trelawny is now closer to reality, as Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie broke ground in Ulster Spring for the facility. “Today, I break ground to fulfil...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRELAWNY IS set to become Jamaica’s newest frontier for developments. This view was further enhanced by Aubyn Hill, minister of industry, investment and commerce, who announced that several mega free zones, as part of a special...
The National Water Commission (NWC), which moved its commercial offices from Falmouth to its treatment plant at Zion in Martha Brae in 2009, is planning to return to Falmouth within the next couple of months. Aubyn Green, manager at the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU: The infirmary in Falmouth, Trelawny, is set to be spruced on Labour Day. Speaking with The Gleaner, Mayor of Falmouth C Junior Gager said that “the infirmary is set to receive special attention as the municipality’s Labour Day...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Duncans All-Age School in Trelawny has been plunged into mourning after acting Principal Ann Marie Johnson Lindo collapsed and died about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Johnson Lindo, whose substantive post is vice-principal but...
WESTERN BUREAU: PAUL PATMORE from Lowe River in south Trelawny has set out to turn the negatives of the world in positives for Jamaicans. The one-term councillor for the Lowe River Division plans to establish a multimillion-dollar investment in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MAYOR of Falmouth, Colin Gager, has warned that the Trelawny Municipal Corporation will be taking steps to prevent persons from placing building material along the roadway, as it moves to preserve the surface of roads. Gager...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James has urged his colleagues not be disheartened in carrying out their sworn duties to pursue criminals – “whether they are in Parliament or otherwise” – even as he labelled the...
Cancer survivor Sonia Morris three years ago established a Heart and Soul Cancer Foundation. Since the inception, along with co-founder Errol Richards, the foundation has set to raise funds to purchase equipment to improve the quality of health...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Justice Delroy Chuck has informed The Gleaner that a bill to amend the Bail Act is to be tabled in Parliament shortly. “The commissioner (police) is concerned about people on bail who are accused of perpetuating crimes....
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CHAOTIC scenes of pedestrians walking in and out of traffic on Duke Street in Falmouth, Trelawny, is set to become a thing of the past shortly, as the municipality is set to spend $9 million to refurbish the old parking area on...
WESTERN BUREAU: OFFICERS EMPLOYED to port security at Sangster International Airport and Montego Bay Freeport are accusing the management of running the organisation in a manner akin to slavery. “Working conditions are the worst since I have been...
WESTERN BUREAU: VENDORS OPERATING in the $300-million market on Market Street in Falmouth are engaged in a daily rat race, fuelled by a lack of garbage collection for three weeks, which has created a breeding ground and dining area for the rodents...
WESTERN BUREAU: AMID THE recent spate of stabbing incidents at schools, there are mixed views among educators that permission should be granted for teachers to arm themselves while carrying out their duties on school premises. Among those who...
WESTERN BUREAU: The $200-million, 35-bedroom field hospital on the Falmouth Hospital compound is complete and doctors have welcomed the addition to enhance patient-care services. Chairman of the hospital, Ken Grant, divulged the information...
Celeste Brown-Duggan has been a nervous wreck since the body of her 26-year-old granddaughter, Juzelle Marie Campbell, was discovered in Daniel Town, Trelawny, on Wednesday. Although Campbell had left home for Falmouth on Monday and did not return...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD OF the Trelawny Police Division, Superintendent Carlos Russell, has warned that any student who is found in possession of a weapon will be arrested and charged. Russell, while addressing a specially arranged devotion at William...
WESTERN BUREAU: Guard rings are so popular and revered among some students that a schoolboy fought off a William Knibb High teacher who tried to confiscate the contraband. On Monday, 16-year-old William Knibb student, Camal Hall, succumbed to stab...
WESTERN BUREAU: INSPIRED TO ‘give back’ to their community, a group of persons from Jackson Town, Trelawny, have joined hands to enhance structures within the place of their roots. A welcome sign in the middle of Hampshire Lane, valued at $500,000...
