The Hanover Parish Development Committee will be under new leadership come Wednesday, June 28, the date set for its overdue biannual general meeting.Incumbent president of the body, Petra Foster, although eligible for another two-year term in...
WESTERN BUREAU: An audience of more than 200 waited patiently Saturday night, despite a one hour and 10 minutes power outage, to witness the crowning of 19-year-old recording artiste Tricia Cunningham as the 2023 Miss Hanover Festival Queen. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: COPIES OF master maps of the Hanover capital, Lucea, and also of the fast-growing town of Green Island, have been presented to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) and the Hanover Police Division with a view to assist them in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WORK ON Hopewell Police Station in Hanover, which started in January 2023, is now about 70 per cent complete and scheduled for completion in another few months, this according to Commissioner of Police, Antony Anderson. The...
Western Bureau: People wondered if it was going to be a repeat of what transpired in the building shared by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) and the Trelawny Parish Court in March 22, when pieces of plaster began falling out of the roof of...
Western Bureau: The fears of the chairman of the board of governors, and administrators of the Hopewell High School, in Hanover, Dalton Hastings, are being realised, which are the potential collapse of a block of classrooms at that institution,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER police and administrators at Bethel Primary School in Hopewell, Hanover have been left puzzled as to how thieves have managed to remove a safe weighing over 600 pounds from the bursar’s office, without anyone hearing or...
WESTERN BUREAU: It was a classic case of ‘more sellers than buyers’ at Friday’s much-hyped staging of the 2023 Hanover Agricultural Show, on the grounds of the Bioprist Complex (formerly Jockey Factory) in Lucea, Hanover, as while there over 40...
WESTERN BUREAU: Outside of major projects by the HEART/NSTA Trust, Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPSCo), and Guardian Life Insurance Company, Labour Day 2023 was a low-keyed affair in the parish of Hanover as only a very small number of...
Western Bureau With increasing concerns about the high levels of criminal activities in Hanover, Easton Edwards, the councillor for the Lucea division in the parish’s municipal corporation, is embarking on an initiative which will see the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hopewell Transport Centre, in Hanover, which has been underutilised for several years, could soon see significant upgrade work to the existing structure to allow for the venue to be recognised as a start and termination point...
Western Bureau: With five murders and numerous reported cases of shooting, Superintendent Sharon Beeput, the police commander for Hanover, says the police in the parish will be stepping up their efforts to put an end to the rampant lawlessness...
Western Bureau: With space running out at the Hopewell cemetery, in Hanover, and fears mounting that the residents could soon find themselves without a place to bury their dead, the parish’s municipal corporation has indicated that lands have been...
Western Bureau: The contractors working on the new Princess Hotel in Green Island, Hanover, have written to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), promising to underwrite the cost of repairing the roads that residents...
WESTERN BUREAU: The planned development of the Orchard Beach property in Hopewell, Hanover has hit a snag as the pegs which were used as boundary markers by local land surveyor, Preston D Demetrius and Associates, were removed by unknown people. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five-year-old Zola Wynnzor of Mt Alvernia Preparatory and Kindergarten School in Montego Bay is the 2023 Kiwanis Club of Providence Montego Bay Kiddie Bee spelling champion. She won the contest by correctly spelling the word ‘butter...
Western Bureau: Students from within the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Region Four - St James, Hanover, and Westmoreland - were last Friday placed on a path to good health when they participated in the annual commemorative day of the Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Devon Brown, councillor for the Hopewell division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), wants it to be mandatory for event promoters to apply for and be issued a spirit licence if they intend to serve alcohol at events which...
As the authorities continue to bicker over who is to replace the 100-year-old Woodsville bridge, in Hanover, which recently collapsed, residents of Woodsville, Hillsbrook, and Flower Hill, who have been left without easy access to their communities...
The 2023 Hanover Agricultural Show and Exhibition, the first staging after 2019, will be under the theme, ‘Grow Smart, Eat Smart, Invest in Youth, Invest in Agriculture, Invest in the Future’, on Friday, May 26, at the Bioprist Complex (formerly...
WESTERN BUREAU: A planning committee led by Lucea’s Deputy Mayor Andria Dehaney-Grant has launched an ambitious campaign to raise J$8 million to rehabilitate the courtyard of the Noel Holmes Hospital, the premier health facility in Hanover. In an...
In 1723 northern Westmoreland became the parish of Hanover, now regarded as Jamaica’s smallest parish. A special anniversary committee, established December last year, is preparing to celebrate its 300th anniversary in November with a series of...
WESTERN BUREAU: While fingers are being pointed at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) regarding its inaction to repair the Woodsville bridge before it collapsed last week, the councillors are insisting that the blame should be placed on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The over 100-year-old Woodsville bridge in eastern Hanover has collapsed, a year after the compromised structure was ordered closed by the National Works Agency, sparking fury among residents of several communities who were forced...
WESTERN BUREAU: Persons behind the construction of a church in proximity to the Hopewell High School in Hanover have seemingly defied an order from the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) to construct a border wall to protect students from the...
