WESTERN BUREAU: The parents of the nine-year-old schoolgirl in Westmoreland who was raped and murdered four years ago have welcomed Friday’s guilty verdict against a 17-year-old boy on trial for the brutal crime. “This is the verdict that I was...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE OPPOSITION People’s National Party (PNP) claims that the parish of Westmoreland remains PNP territory, despite its bruising defeat in the 2022 general election. Since 1989, the party has had parliamentary control of all three...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Judith Mowatt, head of the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine (IFSLM), testified on Tuesday that forensic tests and analysis carried out on swabs taken from the vagina of the nine-year-old schoolgirl who was raped...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several pieces of clothing, including the underwear belonging to a nine-year-old schoolgirl who was raped and killed in 2018, were tendered into evidence on Monday in a case against a 17-year-old boy accused of rape, buggery and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hospitality training at the Theodore Skills Training Centre in Negril, Westmoreland, has offered more than just a job to Chevelle Thompson. The 24-year-old, one of several young women pursuing skills training in hospitality services...
WESTERN BUREAU: WINSOME BARNES, president of the Mount Salem Community Development Committee and Benevolent Society, says that, while there has been a level of renewed hope, peace and tranquillity among the residents living in that St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: IN AN EFFORT to meet the demand for a trained and certified Jamaican workforce, the Negril Rotary Club donated a new $20-million classroom block to the Theodore Skills Training Centre in Westmoreland. The skills training centre is being...
WESTERN BUREAU: AT LEAST 15 homeless persons living in Montego Bay, St James, will be provided with a home of their own under the Government’s New Social Housing Programme. “The outreach programmes for persons living on the streets, for those who...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation are demanding direct budgetary allocation to rehabilitate roads under the management of the country’s municipalities, similarly to what obtains with farm roads. Cebert...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) are lamenting the continued garbage-collection issues affecting the parish despite being able to haul in nearly a third of the $526-million property tax target for the 2022...
WESTERN BUREAU THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force (JCF) is set to pump additional resources into the troubled police divisions in western Jamaica, which has been the most murderous region in Jamaica over the past 10 years. Driven by the gun-for-drugs...
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF National Security Dr Horace Chang says while there has been significant changes inside the Mt Salem community, lifting the zone of special operations (ZOSO) rests with the country’s security forces. “It is something we...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Fire Brigade was presented with a gift in the form of a beautiful painting which captures the old buildings of the Montego Bay Fire Station that was previously located on Barnett Street in Montego Bay. Thanks to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: LEADER OF the Accompong Town Maroons in St Elizabeth, Richard Currie, has said they are prepared to use their lands to help propel small, traditional ganja farmers into the legal cannabis industry. The outspoken Currie also said...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD OF the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) is denying claims made by the leadership of the Mt Salem Community Development Committee (CDC) Benevolent Society that the Emanuel Chapel Church-based parent place has failed...
WESTERN BUREAU: ALMOST A year following the declaration of a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood, St James, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the security intervention has restored a sense of hope among the residents who...
WESTERN BUREAU: ALMOST A year following the declaration of a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood, St James, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the security intervention has restored a sense of hope among the residents who were...
WESTERN BUREAU: OUTSIDE OF groceries and other essential items, residents of the Three Miles River and Paul Island communities in Westmoreland say there is nothing that they can do to militate against being flooded out of their homes during...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE JAMAICA’S tourism industry remains buoyant and stable, tourism minister Edmund Bartlett has said the global economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic is proving to be even more painful to the local industry. He said the...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVEN YEARS after the Government decriminalised ganja, traditional farmers are still struggling to benefit formally as its Alternative Development Programmes (ADP) have either crashed or failed to start. The Gleaner has learnt that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Thousands of workers at the lowest end of the public sector salary scale with annual incomes of up to $600,000 will benefit significantly from the compensation reform now under way, according to Finance and the Public Service...
WESTERN BUREAU STUDENTS AND administrators at Glendevon Primary and Infant School in St James are beaming with excitement after they were gifted with tablet computers valued at $1.5 million from National Security Minister Horace Chang. Paul...
WESTERN BUREAU: The anticipated large turnout of patrons from home and abroad will not affect the face-to-face in-person staging of Reggae Sumfest, says Joe Bogdanovich, chief executive officer of Downsound Records and promoter of the world-...
WESTERN BUREAU While not ruling out a return to the death penalty, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says imposing a life sentence will be more effective in the drive towards eradicating crimes and criminality in the society. Chang made...
WESTERN BUREAU: While the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has embarked on a $5-million upgrade for the main market district in Montego Bay, vendors are hoping problem areas will be addressed at the completion of the two-week exercise to...
