The international community claims it is unsafe for visitors, and locals consider it an eyesore and a haven for criminals, but while killings continue unabated throughout St James, this usually disruptive inner-city community has not recorded a...
Encouraged by the number of persons who turned up to be inoculated across the country yesterday, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is now eyeing an ambitious 800,000 additional Jamaicans receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, which would take Jamaica...
Residents in Norwood, St James say gang warfare and political interference have prevented the sustainable execution of social intervention programmes in the volatile community, leaving them to fend for themselves over the years. The community is...
CONFIDENT that he still enjoys the “full” support of the people of Westmoreland Central and declaring that his work there is far from over, embattled member of parliament George Wright says he is staying put in representational politics. In fact,...
With very limited opportunities available to improve their lives in the poverty-stricken communities of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, the scores of school leavers in the area are being lured into a life of crime and gang violence. Grange Hill, which...
Despite their different political affiliations, former members of parliament for Westmoreland Central, Dr Karl Blythe and Russell Hammond, are united in their support for calls for the incumbent, George Wright, to resign. Wright, who was elected to...
Wooed by the prospects of living in a gated community with a promise of several amenities, residents of Culloden by the Sea in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, have been left holding the bag in an unsecured scheme with several undeveloped properties...
It is not very often that Canon Hartley Perrin, rector of the St Peter’s Anglican Church in Petersfield, Westmoreland, can recall his church member George Wright being absent from Sunday worship since the embattled member of parliament (MP) was...
With reports emerging that some workers in the local tourism sector have been threatened that they will lose their jobs if they do not take the COVID-19 jab, at least one attorney believes that employers could be on solid ground in taking such a...
The administrators of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of four critically ill COVID-19 patients at the facility last Thursday night. Reliable...
As St James battles a continued rise in COVID-19 cases and a public heath system under severe pressure, rogue villas, taxi operators, businesses and illegal parties are being fingered as the major sources of concern in the fight to bring infection...
Still smarting from his loss to political neophyte Tamika Davis of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the September 3 general election, Ian Hayles, the People’s National Party (PNP) caretaker for Western Hanover, believes factions among Comrades in...
Improper disposal of waste continues to be the biggest contributor to the problem of rat infestation affecting Montego Bay, St James, but stakeholders in other western parishes are confident they are winning the battle to rid their communities of...
