Western Bureau: As it was in 2018, when they were trapped in their homes by floodwaters caused by torrential rains, the residents of McNeil Land, Westmoreland, found themselves stuck again yesterday in the aftermath of the passage of Tropical...
Western Bureau: A man who the St James police have labelled a high-value target and a much-feared gang leader in western Jamaica was one of three men killed in an alleged shoot-out with lawmen in Hanover late Wednesday afternoon. The renowned...
Western Bureau: While she still has a court case to answer regarding charges recommended by the Integrity Commission, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who will contest the November 22 by-election in Trelawny South on the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP)...
WESTERN BUREAU: Brian Jardim, the founder and CEO of Rainforest Caribbean, is set to be inducted into the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) Honours Business Leader Wall of Fame. In a release, the MBCCI said Jardim will be...
Western Bureau: In a show of commitment to education, community upliftment and the fostering of a love for reading, renowned charities Chukka Foundation and Hanover Charities have donated some 1,200 books to libraries in St James and Hanover. “The...
Western Bureau: Just days after Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in Trelawny South staged a protest in Albert Town, calling for their party leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to reinstall former member of parliament (MP) Marisa ‘Mama D’...
Western Bureau: The just over 200 militant workers who walked off the job and staged a protest at Royalton Negril on National Heroes Day got their wish on all counts yesterday following a meeting among the hotel’s management, the workers, and...
Western Bureau: While staff at Royalton Negril have returned to work, a scheduled meeting between a high-level Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) delegation led by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett and the hotel’s management and workers is still slated...
Western Bureau: When the love of her life, 44-year-old Constable Linroy Codner, washed two loads of clothes for her on the morning of Friday, October 4, Natasha Freckleton, his common-law-wife of three and half years, could not help but be thankful...
Western Bureau: Motorists, including several visitors to the island, were trapped in Sandy Bay, Hanover, for several hours yesterday morning as residents of the community staged a fiery demonstration along the Montego Bay to Negril thoroughfare to...
Western Bureau: A motorist was shot and killed gangland-style in front of the police’s control centre, formerly the Church Street Police Station, in downtown Montego Bay, St James, early Monday night by gunmen who reportedly chased his vehicle...
WESTERN BUREAU: The National Water Commission (NWC) and the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) are facing criticism for their failure to address a compromised sewage main at the entrance to the Cornwall Court housing scheme in St James, raising alarms...
WESTERN BUREAU: IT HAS been 41 years since the passing of Jamaica-born entrepreneur, Rufus Nataniel Rockhead, but his legend lives on in Canada, where he came to fame in 1929 as the owner of the famous Montreal-based jazz club, Rockhead’s Paradise...
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER YEARS of trying various policing initiatives, including states of emergency (SOE) and zones of special operations (ZOSO), to combat the rapid lawlessness which has been plaguing western Jamaica for over two decades, the Area...
Western Bureau: In a March 2016 Gleaner article, published under the headline, ‘Overwhelming GSAT optimism out west’, a then 12-year-old Ronaldinho ‘Mike’ Headley, who was a student at Hampden Primary School, on the Trelawny-St James border, was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Sangster International Airport now has an ambulance and medical team on location to better handle medical emergencies after a terminal tragedy last week left the Montego Bay-based facility with a black eye. The Gleaner was...
Western Bureau: Lennox Wallace, head of the St James Public Health Services (StJPHS), says failures on the part of MBJ Airport Limited, the operators of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, are to be blamed for Leroy Smith not being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is accusing the operators of the Sangster International Airport of attempting to shift blame amid ongoing criticism of the handling of last week’s incident in which 71-year-old...
Western Bureau: The nephew of a man who died at the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, St James, last Wednesday after falling and hitting his head says in addition to not receiving timely medical attention, his uncle’s body was...
Western Bureau: After an 11-year hiatus, cultural reggae showcase Western Consciousness will be back on the local entertainment calendar in December 2025 and will be staged over two days. The event was held for 24 consecutive years between...
WESTERN BUREAU: Carlington ‘Tommy’ Godfrey, who was one of the prime targets on the Westmoreland police’s most wanted list for a series of crimes, including multiple murders committed in several communities across the parish, was killed in an...
Western Bureau: The fragile peace that has been holding in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, since a major police-military crackdown against criminal gangs in March, was broken on Wednesday with the double murder of two teenagers outside a nightclub in...
Western Bureau: EVERTON TOMLINSON, president of the Westmoreland Football Association, says his former Reno FC teammate, former national midfielder Boysie ‘Bengeleng’ Nicholson, who died yesterday after battling Parkinson’s Disease for several...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fire of unknown origin destroyed three makeshift shops at the burnt-out Montego Bay Arcade in St James early Wednesday morning, leaving behind millions of dollars in losses. According to reports, at about 12:10 a.m., huge columns...
Western Bureau: With the transformative possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) now taking root globally, changing the world from the way we used to know it, Jamaican author and visionary thinker Theo Chambers has decided to delve into this...
