WESTERN BUREAU: THE DECISION of the police to cease issuing permits for the staging of parties within the parish of Hanover has not gone down well with councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), who have all voiced disapproval. While...
WESTERN BUREAU: The inspector of poor at the Hanover Municipal Corporation wants to see the Bellevue Hospital reconsider its approach to accepting patients as some families and communities are not equipped to deal with those sent home to be...
WESTERN BUREAU: COUNCILLOR FOR the Green Island division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), Marvel Sewell, has described the contract work system being used by several business establishments across the island as modern-day slavery, while...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LEADERSHIP at the Sandy Bay Police Station, in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Hanover division, has begun to put strategies and plans in place to counter indiscipline and any form of criminal activity that may raise its...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO-TIME Member of Parliament (MP) for Hanover Eastern, Dave Brown, firmly believes that he will retain the seat for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) when the next general election is called. Brown, a 57-year-old former Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HANOVER Municipal Corporation (HMC) has again issued the Doer of Faith Church of God in Hopewell, Hanover, with a stop order over a retaining wall that was being done without its approval. Chief engineering officer of the HMC,...
Western Bureau Following a tour of some badly damaged roads in Western Hanover, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie, while issuing some criticisms about the roads being allowed to deteriorate to the level they are at...
WESTERN BUREAU: The public cemetery in the Hanover seaside capital of Lucea is in a sordid state as shrubs obscure many of the graves and overgrowth has turned into huge trees as a result of neglect. The terrible state of affairs, over which many...
WESTERN BUREAU An air of calm has returned to the Green Island High School community in Hanover as the matter of motor vehicles being parked along the sidewalk outside the gates of the school compound has been addressed. This had followed...
Western Bureau With the start of the 2023-2024 academic year just days away, several parents and teachers in the Green Island area of Hanover are expressing concern over what is being described as “a clear-and-present danger” for students of Green...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two Hanover schools, Lucea Primary and Esher Primary, are the first to receive donations from Dreams 4 Jamaica, a newly formed charitable organisation comprising Jamaicans in the US. Principals for both schools, Mrs Y. Anderson-...
WESTERN BUREAU The hard work, determination and sacrifices made by 30 students, 15 each from the Esher Primary and Lucea Primary schools in western Hanover have been celebrated by the Henworth and Sarah Campbell Family Foundation. The students will...
WESTERN BUREAU President of the Community Development Committee (CDC) in Woodsville, Hanover, Sashagay Frazer, is calling on the authorities to make good on several promises to fix the alternate route into the community as to date nothing has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Woodsville, Flower Hill and Hillsbrook, in Eastern Hanover, should be breathing a sigh of relief, at the recent announcement of a government allocation of some $75 million, towards the replacement of the collapsed...
Western Bureau: With the deplorable state of the roads in eastern Hanover causing a nightmare for motorists and paedestrians alike, Derrick Wright, the president of the Hopewell Citizens Association, says he is very concerned about the situation...
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE THE sweltering heat and sporadic bouts of rain, residents of Green Island, Hanover, turned out in large numbers on Tuesday to participate in a peace march and public meeting, which formed part of their effort to draw...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seven-year-old Alenia Hall, a grade-two student at the Jericho Primary and Infant School in Hanover, walked away with the coveted Mini Miss Jericho Reunion 2023 title on July 24, as the curtain came down on the 10th edition of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two hundred and sixty-four students from Hanover, who are pursuing varying degrees of studies, will have one less thing to worry about come the start of the 2024 academic year, as the Tryall Fund, one of the parish’s premier...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lucea’s deputy mayor, Andria Dehaney-Grant, is calling for the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) to direct more of its resources to Hanover, saying the parish, which shares the resort town of Negril with Westmoreland, is not getting...
Western Bureau: Two park benches, valued at more than US$1,000, have been installed at Watson Taylor Park in Lucea, Hanover, courtesy of the Friends of Watson Taylor Park (FWTP), a new non-profit, charitable organisation, consisting of local...
Western Bureau: With more than 100 adults and children showing up at the Sandy Bay Primary School, in Hanover, for last weekend’s health fair, which was staged by the Indian High Commission in collaboration with the Hanover Municipal Corporation (...
Western Bureau: The Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), which is seeking to add much-needed cash to its coffers, says it will be ramping up its revenue collection drive across the parish in the coming weeks, with special attention being given to...
WESTERN BUREAU: The special anniversary committee, which was established to plan, organise, coordinate, promote and implement events for the 300th anniversary of the parish of Hanover, is now officially a subcommittee of the Hanover Municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty primary and preparatory school students from Western Hanover, who had excellent results in their Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Examinations, were fêted by their member of parliament, Tamika Davis, on Sunday. The ceremony, dubbed...
WESTERN BUREAU: Plans are well advanced for a school and community health fair to be staged at the Sandy Bay Primary School in Hanover this Sunday, thanks to an initiative by Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Rungsung Masakui, who made a...
