WESTERN BUREAU: The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is encouraging Jamaicans to purchase gift bags instead of traditional gift wraps and seek out recyclable options in planning events this Christmas season to reduce pollution....
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), has instructed the agency’s western arm to ensure that commercial operators make adequate garbage storage and removal arrangements to...
WESTERN BUREAU: FACED WITH a reported high prevalence of crime by repeat offenders, Westmoreland police commander Senior Superintendent (SSP) Wayne Josephs is urging parish judges to exercise greater discretion when granting bail to accused...
Starting next month, residents of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, areto begin their purging through a series of programmes designed to bring about social transformation and renewal. Saffrey Brown, project director for Project STAR, says Savanna-la-...
WESTERN BUREAU Dr Horace Chang, minister of national security, says the government is working to use, among other training institutions, the Caribbean Military Technical Training Institute (CMTTI) to remove the stigma and the burden placed on...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Workers Union (NWU) and the Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU) have embraced a recommendation from at least one private sector leader who has urged employers to pay their workers above the government-regulated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Moses Chybar, president of the Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI), is urging the country’s business owners to pay employees above the minimum wage in an effort to, among other things, encourage people to work and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he is delighted to know that foreign investors RCD Hotels group will be investing in housing for hotel workers to support and enhance their luxury hospitality brand. In welcoming the investment,...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT MINISTER Audley Shaw has declared that vendors now occupying shops in the People’s Arcade in Montego Bay, St James, will not be removed by the Government or the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC), on whose property the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay is to get a new, modern transportation centre to help ease the congestion on the streets and provide a more comfortable space for commuters to travel seamlessly. The disclosure was made by Transport Minister Audley...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police Wayne Josephs is assuring the Jamaican diaspora that Westmoreland and Jamaica in general is safe, this despite the high murder rate. SSP Josephs who has responsibility for the Westmoreland police...
WESTERN BUREAU: CARLENE AUSTIN-Williams, acting principal at the Petersfield Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, says the gift of a playground will help the approximately 700 students to be more disciplined and develop critical skills for...
Petersfield Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland has a new playground, thanks to the infusion of US$25,000 by the Joseph and Vera Douglas Family Foundation. The foundation, which was established eight years ago in partnership with the Lasco...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has laid the acts of violence and child sexual abuse at the feet of some mothers, whom he claims facilitate physical and sexual abuse of children in exchange for financial gains. Moore made that...
WESTERN BUREAU: The attorney representing Anna-Sharé Blake – more popularly known as reggae singer Sevana – said he and his client are satisfied with the sentence of $300,000 or two years’ imprisonment handed down by a judge on Thursday in a death-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The leader of a civic group in Westmoreland has scoffed at the possibility that the state of emergency (SOE) declared for Westmoreland will be effective in taming the crime beast running wild in the parish. “Jamaica’s state of...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRELAWNY business community has welcomed plans for the expansion of the 60-kilometre stretch from Montego Bay in St James to St Ann into a four-lane highway, but is appealing for supporting infrastructure in areas prone to...
Western Bureau: A conference aimed at fixing the weaknesses in the teaching of mathematics, as well as changing negative perceptions of the subject, will be held on November 23 in Granville, St James. Konnor Peters, math lecturer and head of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: WESTERN PARKS and Markets (WPM) Waste Management company has reported that over 150 communities across the parish of Westmoreland were affected by a backlog of uncollected garbage in October due to an inadequate fleet. The...
WESTERN BUREAU The Westmoreland police have committed to repairing the leaky roof of the Savanna-la-Mar Market located on Great George Street, as law enforcers do their part to ensure that the facility is suitable for use by vendors and consumers...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE GOVERNMENT is spearheading the investment of approximately $124 billion (US$800 million) to build a new four-lane highway from Rose Hall in Montego Bay, St James, to Mammee Bay, St Ann. The International Finance Corporation (...
WESTERN BUREAU: KYLE FLETCHER and Jonovi Gayle are the first set of students at Cornwall College to benefit from the Stafford Barrett Memorial scholarship fund which was created to enhance creative and technical skills in the arts. The fund is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government is being challenged to ramp up its drive to expand science, technology, engineering. and mathematics (STEM) education as the country’s workforce now requires persons with those skill sets to advance along a path of...
WESTERN BUREAU: FORTY-TWO students of Cornwall College in Montego Bay, St James, are to benefit from scholarships valued at a combined $2 million, thanks to the school’s Class of 1985, who made the donation on Friday. Huntley Medley, immediate past...
Western Bureau: Tracy-Ann Pinnock, manager at the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College Diagnostic Centre Diagnostic and Early Intervention Centre says some 40 per cent of the 163 children in western Jamaica assessed as being at-risk are not in school, or...
