WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Community Development Minister Desmond McKenzie on Tuesday stated that after eight years of making major investments in the agencies under his ministry, Jamaicans are now feeling their impact and becoming more...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sports Minister Olivia Grange has dismissed as untrue and tribal a statement from the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) accusing her of posting a photograph on her Instagram page in which she did not recognise former Prime...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 22-year-old police officer, who was on cell-guard duty at the Whithorn Police Station in Westmoreland on Saturday, was removed from duty and placed in custody at the same lockup after he was allegedly caught trying to smuggle...
WESTERN BUREAU: Duojon Griffiths, the 24-year-old man implicated in the 2021 murder of fellow Montego Bay resident 20-year-old Massania ‘Karla’ Malcolm and her one-year-old daughter Jordania, was indicted on murder and gun charges by a Florida...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sergeant Arleen McBean, the newly elected chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation, says she is ready to take on whatever challenges lie ahead. “I don’t like to say the road is hard. I will use the words ‘the road appears...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Senator Peter Bunting has labelled Prime Minister Andrew Holness a self-serving hypocrite and coward for seeking to make an issue out of the dual citizenship controversy involving Opposition Leader Mark Golding, saying he...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that going forward, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be looking inward to fill leadership vacancies, including the post of commissioner and in areas of specialisation....
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay-based auto mechanic Luther Reid, who is still reeling from the news that his son was shot and injured in a bizarre shooting incident at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James on Saturday night, is...
Western Bureau: Questions yesterday surrounded Saturday night’s bizarre shooting at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James. While initial reports, including from an alleged eyewitness, indicated that a policeman was disarmed on the...
Western Bureau: Senior Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis, after serving an unprecedented six and a half years, is no longer the commander officer for the St James Police division, having taken up new duties in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (...
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT Vernon Ellis, whose tenure as police commander for St James will end this weekend, seems to be making one more powerful statement before he leaves as in his latest initiative to rid the parish of illegal...
Western Bureau The news that Doujon Dwayne Griffiths, the 23-year-old man accused of the 2021 killing of 20-year-old Massania ‘Carla-Shay’ Malcolm and her baby daughter ‘Karlie,’ in Miami, Florida, has been caught and arrested by the United States...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ignorance of the law appears to have been the culprit in the failure to seat two of the 17 candidates, who were successful in the February 26 local government election, and should have been sworn in at this past Thursday’s first...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANTHONY FINDLAY, who pleaded guilty to the March 12, 2023 murder of two-year-old Adrian Campbell of Mack Hill district, Trelawny, was sentenced to a combined total of 51 years in prison in the Trelawny Circuit Court on Tuesday. He...
WESTERN BUREAU: FACE-TO-FACE classes will resume at Grange Hill Primary and Grange Hill High schools in Westmoreland today. The assurance was given yesterday evening by Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Area One, Assistant Commissioner of...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE VOLATILE Grange Hill community in Westmoreland is now under a murderous siege as five men have been killed in the escalating gang feud between the infamous King Valley Gang and the emerging Ants Posse Gang, who, seemingly, are...
WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATOR RICHARD Solomon, who won the New Market division on the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) ticket in the February 26 local government elections, was installed Thursday as the new mayor of Black River and chairman of the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THE numbers are not staggering, based on the latest Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) serious crimes report, St Elizabeth has seen the largest increase in sexual offences this year, with six cases. This represents a 400 per...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE ONLY five women will be among the 64 persons who will be sworn in as councillors in five municipal corporations in the county of Cornwall, it is expected that they will all make an impact. In fact, indications are that one of...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO HIGH-POWERED firearms were seized by members of the security forces in a targeted operation in Flanker, St James, yesterday, at a premises believed to be connected to Peter Johnson, the 25-year-old who was shot and killed in an...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE BEING removed as the People’s National Party’s (PNP) provisional candidate for Trelawny North, Dennis Meadows, who remains the party’s chairman for the constituency, has accepted the consequences of action taken against him...
WESTERN BUREAU: On the face of it, it was a case of ‘as you were’ after this week’s local government elections in western Jamaica as the major parties ended up with control over the same municipalities they held going into Monday – a 3-2 split in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SUPPORTERS of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) in St Elizabeth were in high spirits yesterday, the situation was different at the leadership level, where the optimism of recent weeks was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Party loyalty and apathy are upstaging issues in western Jamaica as campaigning for Monday’s local government elections enters the final stretch. Electors in Trelawny, St James, Hanover, Westmoreland, and St Elizabeth readily point...
WESTERN BUREAU: Unlike some of their colleagues who have left their local teaching jobs to pursue more lucrative options in overseas classrooms, many teachers are targetting local politics, especially at the local government level, as an avenue to...
