WESTERN BUREAU: Approximately 920,000 members of the country’s labour force are excluded from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ work-from-home order aimed at curbing the spike in coronavirus infections. That disclosure was made by David Wan,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former president of the Jamaica Court of Appeal, retired Justice Seymour Panton, has accused some of the country’s educators of not doing enough in the fight to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Panton, who retired from the Bench in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Seymour Panton, retired president of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, has labelled as “time-wasting nonsense”, the ongoing Trafigura court case involving former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and four other People’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: After almost one year of virtual classes for students attending early-childhood through to tertiary educational institutions in Jamaica, clinical psychologist Dr Pearnel Bell is warning against the practice of having children...
WESTERN BUREAU: The $1.3-billion Harmony Beach Park in Montego Bay, St James, will be ready to receive members of the public, limited groups of 10, when the latest COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Originally scheduled to be opened today, March 2...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, the executive director at the National Solid Waste Management Authority, (NSWMA), says the proposed plan to establish a garbage transfer station in Frome, Westmoreland will have to be revisited as a result of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business, civic, and political leaders in Westmoreland have hailed the news that the Government will construct a $200-million state-of-the-art police divisional headquarters in the parish as a step in the right direction. “The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite surging COVID-19 cases in western Jamaica, Region Four schools that have reopened for face-to-face classes have not recorded transmissions, offering much-needed confidence to education stakeholders. The parishes of St James...
WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the St James Health Services has charged that despite the northwestern parish being the most prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, it is having a difficult time shaking residents from a culture of nonchalance even as virus...
WESTERN BUREAU: Concerned about the frequency of drought in the parish, councillor Dawnette Foster, who represents the Cornwall Mountain division in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), is reprimanding some of her senior colleagues for not...
WESTERN BUREAU Almost a month after several detainees tested positive for the coronavirus at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, Yvonne White-Powell, a deputy superintendent of police at the St James Divisional Headquarters, says the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, executive director at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), says the new garbage-transfer station project in Trelawny is not dead, but the cost to build and retrofit it has increased significantly. “...
Western Bureau: The Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, has exhausted the 25 beds initially allocated to treat COVID-19 patients and has been scrambling to find additional space amid a continuing rise in virus cases. Clinical...
WESTERN BUREAU: A school principal has pledged to reskill residents of Barracks Road, Hart Street, and adjoining neighbourhoods in St James through the Universal Service Fund’s (USF) $10-million investment in a newly commissioned computer lab and...
WESTERN BUREAU: A plastic bottle separation pilot project launched by the Western Parks and Market Waste Management (WPMWM) has been praised as a timely investment into environmental protection. Janique Harris, president of the Meadows of Irwin...
WESTERN BUREAU: Daniel Dawes, the chief executive officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), has warned against barring residents from logging on to community access points islandwide, saying he wants the wider community to benefit alongside...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Danree Delancy, the deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, is worried that a proposal by the Jamaica Fire Brigade to build a new fire substation in Bethel Town, instead of sharing the facilities at the Bethel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Deputy Mayor, Richard Vernon, is calling on residents of St James to start taking COVID-19 health and safety protocols seriously as the number of positive cases is rising to a level that could seriously challenge the...
WESTERN BUREAU Members of the clergy in Westmoreland are being accused by Dr Marcia Graham, the parish’s chief medical officer of health, of breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) as it relates to the COVID-19 health and safety protocols...
In a letter dated December 10 presented in the last monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) directing local authorities to get prior permission for trucking water has not gone down well with the councillors. Cebert...
WESTERN BUREAU: Grade-six students at Flanker Primary and Infant School and Lottery Primary and Infant School in St James are now better able to bridge the digital divide, thanks to insurance giant Guardian Life and the Guardian Foundation. Oneil...
WESTERN BUREAU: With burial spaces running low and backyard interments escalating in Westmoreland, Councillor Ian Myles has ordered an audit into the operations of the 12 public cemeteries in the parish. Myles, chairman of the Civic and...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica prepares to celebrate its 59th anniversary of political independence, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says self-governance does not mean freedom for the country’s young people to kill and maim each other...
WESTERN BUREAU: Drug and gun smugglers continue to breach Jamaica’s borders, but the country’s air and marine surveillance infrastructure has reduced the number of contraband runs into the island, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang has said....
