WESTERN BUREAU: The financial landscape in Trelawny is now poised for further growth as come February 1, Gateway Co-operative Credit Union (GCCU) will be opening a new branch at 2-4 Duke Street in Falmouth, the parish capital. Ornel Bedasse, the...
Western Bureau: With Jamaica importing more than US$900 million worth of agricultural produce annually, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Vice President, Denton Alvaranga, wants urgent steps to be taken to improve local production and reduce the...
A combined total of $6.23 million was paid out to 89 raft captains employed to River Rafting in Trelawny. The aid consists of $40,000 in government care package, $21,000 from Jamaica Red Cross and $9,000 from River Rafting to each raft captain....
WESTERN BUREAU: The bitter dispute between the 150 farmers occupying former sugar lands in Long Pond, Trelawny, and Everglades Farm Limited, which has had a longstanding lease on the properties, has fizzled following the intervention of Agriculture...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s bamboo industry has been tapped to generate US$1.4 billion in revenues over the next decade, an investor has forecast. Anthony Dunn, chief investment officer at Delta Capital Partners, which has...
WESTERN BUREAU: The saga surrounding the ownership of former sugar lands at Long Pond in Trelawny has once again reared its ugly head and indications are that a showdown is looming between Everglades Farms Limited, which has a lease for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Trelawny seeing a worrisome increase in COVID-19 cases, businessman Kenneth Grant, chairman of the Falmouth Hospital board, says the uncomfortable statistics, which stands at 260 cases and 13 deaths, is now cause for much...
WESTERN BUREAU: One year after breaking ground for its US$4-million hemp plant for CBD oil (cannabidiol) production, the Trelawny-based Organic Growth Holdings (OGH) has sent off its first shipment of products to Delaware in the United States. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Falmouth Municipal Market in Trelawny, which was handed over to the parish’s municipal authorities in an incomplete state in 2018, is now a source of much discontent for vendors and shoppers, who are facing a myriad of...
Western Bureau: There are fears that a direct hit from a major storm could leave Falmouth under water as the expansion of the seaside town has interfered with its natural drainage. The Trelawny capital is steadily being expanded towards Martha Brae...
Western Bureau: It would appear that the plan for the two COVID-19 field hospitals on the grounds of the St Joseph’s Hospital in Kingston and the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny will not be completed according to the projected deadlines as the...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an act that could be interpreted as cementing his legacy with his former congregants at William Knibb Baptist Church in Falmouth, Trelawny, the Reverend Devere Nugent, who is now based in Kingston, returned...
Western Bureau: The Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) has rejected a recommendation by Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang for the removal of the fountain in Water Square, Falmouth, where a statue is to be mounted to immortalise track and...
Western Bureau: While the spate of recent new developments, to include new hotels and an expanding Falmouth cruise shipping pier that has emerged alongside the Salt Marsh to Duncans coastline in Trelawny, has been an investor’s dream, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The local bamboo industry, which currently revolves around a 2,000-acre project on former sugar lands in Trelawny, is to be expanded by some 25,000 acres through a US$300-million project across central and western Jamaica. Joseph...
Western Bureau: With the uncertainty as to whether a statue of sprint legend Usain Bolt will be erected in Water Square in Falmouth, Trelawny, now over, with Minister of Culture Olivia Babsy Grange giving the project the green light, the future of...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THE COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the local tourism sector, sidelining important revenue-generating vehicles like the cruise shipping sector, it has also given stakeholders an opportunity to...
Western Bureau: Normally, passing a mere one Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subject would count for very little, but for 17-year-old Chanalee Williams, a ward of the state at the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny, it was a...
Western Bureau: It would appear that the lease arrangement between the Government and the All-Island Cane Farmer’s Association (AICFA), which would see former cane workers getting some 3,600 acres of sugar lands at Long Pond in Trelawny is in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has expressed his displeasure over the conspiracy theories being circulated against the Government’s plans to offer Jamaica for the testing of the vaccines being developed against...
Western Bureau: With the COVID-19 cases in Trelawny tripling over the past three weeks, Kenneth Grant, chairman of the Falmouth Hospital in the western parish, is pleased that the institution will host a 36-bed field hospital for the western end of...
Everglades Farms, the Hussey-owned operator of Long Pond and Hampden sugar estates, has locked horns with the All Island Cane Farmers Association (AICFA) over the latter’s move to lease parcels of former sugar cane lands to small farmers. With the...
Outspoken pastor of William Knibb Baptist Church in Falmouth, the Rev Devere Nugent, bid a tearful goodbye to his congregation on Sunday, September 6. After 14 years at William Knibb, he said that he was going off “to serve in another part of God’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Alverston Bailey, the associate professor of Occupational Health and Safety School of Public Health and Technology at the University of Technology (UTech), is expressing much concern about a heightened risk of community spread...
Western Bureau: The resort town of Falmouth in Trelawny is poised to benefit from a $32-million project aimed at giving a much-needed facelift to the seaside town, which has become a popular cruise-shipping destination. The announcement was made by...
