WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Municipal Corporation’s (HMC’s) office complex, located in Sir Alexander Bustamante Square, Lucea, has suffered an estimated millions of dollars in damage by the Category 4 hurricane Beryl. In an interview with The...
A late start to the consultation held in Eastern Hanover recently did not help to ease residents’ concerns about the workings of the $40 billion Shared Prosperity Through Accelerated Development to our Road Network (SPARK) programme. This, as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Jamaica Hotel and Tourism Association (JHTA) president Wayne Cummings believes that with the large number of tourism projects being proposed for the near future, there may well be a need for imported workers for the industry...
WESTERN BUREAU: In Hanover, the majority of the funds allocated by the Government for hurricane relief will go towards food and building material. Those are the items the parish’s political representatives say are in greatest demand. “I have been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Since Hurricane Beryl swept by last week, it has been common to witness people throughout Hanover parish coming together in large numbers, armed with tools, to clear roads and lend a helping hand wherever needed. With at least one...
WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover’s leading philanthropic body, Hanover Charities, has donated grants and scholarships to support the education and programmes of over 300 individuals and 30 organisations. The handover of the sums of money was done at Round...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of western Hanover have contributed nearly $5 million towards Kendal Primary School’s rehabilitation as an investment in the educational development of its youth. This follows the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF)...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the Hopewell Transport Centre in Hanover not being utilised for its original purpose, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) is planning to use the space for public parking. “In a recent committee meeting, the transport centre...
WESTERN BUREAU: Four one-week summer camps will be staged by the Lennox Lewis League of Champions Foundation at Hopewell Sports and Community Centre in Hanover. Lewis, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, will host the camps in July. They...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Mayor of Lucea and councillor for the Sandy Bay division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), Andria Dehaney-Grant, has called for an upgrade of the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea from a Type C hospital. According to...
WESTERN BUREAU: With areas within Hanover having garbage uncollected for up to one month still awaiting service, Western Parks and Markets Waste Management Limited (WPMWML) has been told in no uncertain terms that it is failing the parish. The...
WESTERN BUREAU Residents across the parish of Hanover are expressing displeasure with the performance of the National Solid Waste Management Authority/Western Parks and Markets (NSWMA/WPM), with councillors unanimously insisting that senior...
WESTERN BUREAU: Arsonists are suspected to be wreaking havoc across the parish of Hanover, and have played a major role in the loss of property estimated to be valued at over $53 million. According to a report tabled at the May meeting of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With 19 murders committed in Hanover since the start of the year, lead personnel in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Hanover Division are viewing that figure positively. “We are looking at 19 (murders) now, 25 last year to date,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the Orchard Housing Scheme in Hopewell, Hanover, are calling for the removal of all political paraphernalia in their community. The call has come over two months after the local polls and against the background of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH NOT regarded as one of the crime hotspots in Hanover, the police say Hopewell has a high incidence of domestic violence. Inspector of Police Godfrey Lawrence, the officer in charge of the recently opened Hopewell Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: The proposed merger between the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), which was announced by Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, last year, is still in the making and should...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hopewell, Hanover, are now crying for help to rid the town of a growing pile of metal waste, which is ballooning in the ‘River Gully’ area. They say that in addition to being an eyesore, there are also health concerns...
WESTERN BUREAU The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) is to write to the National Water Commission (NWC), seeking information on its plans to address the impact of drought conditions for residents of Hanover, as despite the presence of several...
WESTERN BUREAU: THIEVES HAVE removed seven of 10 Jamaica Public Service (JPS)-installed street lights in Orange Bay, Western Hanover, once again, leaving the five-kilometre stretch of roadway between the Orange Bay Housing Scheme and Negril in...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has been utilising a number of measures to cool down several hotspots in the parish. Montpelier in eastern Hanover, and Green Island in the western section of the parish,...
Western Bureau: The bad road conditions across Hanover have spurred Mayor of Lucea Sheridan Samuels to come up with the idea of naming the potholes along the roadways in ‘honour’ of the members of parliament (MPs) in the parish. Dave Brown is the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THIRTY-THREE young people from across western Hanover who participated in an eight-week youth mentorship programme have successfully completed the programme. Now, they are looking to put what they have learnt over the period into...
WESTERN BUREAU: NECESSITY IS the mother of invention. That is an idiom commonly used and is now proven by the residents of Woodsville, in Hanover eastern, a deep-rural community that also falls in the Hopewell division in the Hanover Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR OF the seven newly elected councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) who made an affirmation instead of swearing on the Bible at that corporation’s swearing-in ceremony on Thursday March 7 will have to go through...
