WESTERN BUREAU: Days before the resumption of face-to-face school on the back end of a second coronavirus wave, operators of the state-run bus company have warned that it would not be feasible to allocate any of its fleet solely for the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Family therapist Dr Beverley Scott and medical practitioner Dr Delroy Fray, two of the foremost medical personalities in western Jamaica, are of the view that while the problematic characteristics of the perpetrators of domestic...
WESTERN BUREAU: Anthony Ricardo Bailey, the 34-year-old Trelawny butcher who allegedly launched a near-fatal knife attack on his former girlfriend Stephina Ralston, was remanded when he appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court on Monday. Bailey, who...
WESTERN BUREAU: Anthony Ricardo Bailey, the Trelawny butcher who was being sought by the police after he allegedly launched a brutal knife attack on 23-year-old Stephina Ralston, who was left barely hanging on to life, is now in the custody of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Westmoreland experiencing yet another upsurge in murders and shootings, Superintendent Robert Gordon, the police commander for the parish, says the police are in need of an extra eye, in the JamaicaEye programme, to beef up...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) President Moses Chybar strongly believes that gangsters, coupled with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, are hurting the parish’s economy. “We believe that this wave of crime in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Moreland Wilson, the member of parliament for the Westmoreland Western constituency, says the colonial ghost of the sugar cane industry has forced a large portion of his constituents into renting, leasing, and squatting on state-...
WESTERN BUREAU Members of the Jamaican Bar Association believe that legal provisions already exist for criminal matters to be placed before the courts without the cooperation of the complainant. “An assault is an offence against the State and...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Stephina Ralston returned to her home in Warsop, Trelawny, on Tuesday, she was paralysed with fear that the man who had butchered her within an inch of her life was still lurking around. The 23-year-old, who survived several...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Custos Reverend Hartley Perrin has called for the deployment of a heavy concentration of the security forces to stem the rise in violent crime in the parish. Police statistics indicate that the Westmoreland Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has thrown its supports behind a resolution moved by Councillor Sydney Rose of the Treadways division in the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, seeking to force the country’s utility...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Danree Delancy, deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, says he wants the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to investigate the emergence of unauthorised dump sites in the parish, which is hurting garbage-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has been urged to place more focus on primary healthcare so that the health centres can become the first option for persons seeking medical attention. Calvin G. Brown, former chairman of the board at the Cornwall...
WESTERN BUREAU: Andre Brown, the e-commerce entrepreneur service provider who onboarded Montego Bay’s pan chicken vendors by creating an e-commerce website for them to effectively operate under the E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS)...
Minister of Education’s Fayval Williams’ announcement that school would be extended for grade 6 through what should be the start of Summer holidays has not gone down well with teachers, who have not yet had a break, going straight from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twelve farmers, eight women and four men who formerly did their farming in the Negril Morass, are today enjoying much better returns, thanks to a $5-million project spearheaded by the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) and the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With local government elections due in less than a year, some councillors in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) are viewing with suspicion delays in disbursements to the entity’s Parochial Revenue Fund (PRF). But...
WESTERN BUREAU: The 14 councillors of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) have launched a broadside against the leadership of the Association of Local Government Authorities of Jamaica (ALGAJ), saying they are unhappy with the quality of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has come out in support of a resolution in the St Mary Municipal Corporation (StMC) seeking to amend the Integrity Commission Act to reduce the statutory declaration reporting period from...
WESTERN BUREAU Days after the country rolled out its vaccination campaign in search of herd immunity, Dr Marcia Graham, the medical officer of health (MOH) at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, said that the parish’s 34-bed COVID-19 ward is full to capacity and overflowing. “When we look at our isolation ward, we are at 115 per cent...
WESTERN BUREAU: With public hospitals struggling to find bed space to address the growing number of positive COVID-19 cases, the operator of one of the foremost private hospitals in rural Jamaica is expressing a willingness to assist the Government...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has said he will be investigating reports that ‘backyard style’ burials are taking place in the Roaring River community, which could contaminate one of the primary sources of domestic water in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: On a day when the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) COVID-19 cases breached the 6,000 mark, Errol Greene, the authority’s regional director, led the way as medical personnel in western Jamaica got their shot of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Custos Bishop Conrad Pitkin has issued a word of caution to the parish’s newly commissioned justices of the peace (JPs) not to use their office to secure financial gains. The custos’ warning comes against the backdrop of...
