WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent of Police Eron Samuels believes that last Tuesday’s triple murder in Montego Bay, St James, could have been prevented if residents had been more willing to provide information to the police prior to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: More than two years after the brutal January 13, 2022 murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King rocked St James and the wider Jamaica, the parish’s commanding officer of police Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels has promised to seek an...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association [JTA] President Leighton Johnson is urging the Ministry of Education [MOE] to set up an emergency fund for repairing damage to schools caused by natural disasters, and to speedily complete assessments...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-nine-year-old Amy Campbell has been in deep mourning after her older sister Icilda James was found dead in a pond in Dumfries, St James, following the passage of Hurricane Beryl. “Oh my God, I tell you something, I can’t...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Adelphi, St James, are lamenting infrastructure damage, power outages, spoiled food, and other ongoing challenges they face in the aftermath of the powerful Category 4 Hurricane Beryl. Across the northwestern parish,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the loss of electricity and mobile-service connectivity in sections of St James following Hurricane Beryl as well as some roads being impassable due to downed trees, Montego Bay’s Mayor, Richard Vernon, is voicing gratitude...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some of Trelawny’s rural communities have taken a battering from the heavy winds and rain associated with Hurricane Beryl. Residents of Troy lamented the loss of several banana trees and other crops. “There is heavy rain and a lot...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaicans brace for Hurricane Beryl, Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is urging citizens to take the necessary measures to protect themselves if they must relocate from their homes. Vernon made the appeal while speaking to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ahead of Hurricane Beryl’s expected landfall in Jamaica today, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says it has moved to send home patients who do not need in-hospital care, as part of efforts to outfit its hospital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Schools within the Ministry of Education’s [MOE] Region 4 zone in western Jamaica are among Jamaica’s various educational institutions which will have their planned examination and graduation schedules moved up in light of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) on Monday ramped up its preparations for a looming Hurricane Beryl, outfitting emergency shelters and cleaning gullies and drains. Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon, who chairs the StJMC,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says that while strides have been made in improving the various benefits offered to both active and retired police personnel, support must still be provided to ensure that they receive...
WESTERN BUREAU: Six first-year students of the Mt Alvernia High School in Montego Bay, St James have received much-needed financial assistance from members of the school’s graduating class of 1989, with each student receiving $75,000 in aid to...
WESTERN BUREAU: British national Sianece Clarke-Johnson has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment or a fine of $300,000 after being convicted on cocaine-smuggling charges. On February 26, Clarke-Johnson checked in at the Sangster International...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Nurses’ Association of Jamaica [NAJ] is acknowledging that while nurses and other medical personnel who go overseas for training should ideally return to Jamaica to impart their skills locally, in some cases many of them migrate...
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR YEARS after announcing plans for the construction of a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] institution in his St James North Western constituency, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang says that he is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Nerissa J. Persaud, the newest president of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, is set on promoting literacy empowerment for schools and uplifting of community spirit in the western city as the mandate for her year-long administration...
WESTERN BUREAU: Less than 10 years after Mario Deane died from injuries he received after being beaten while in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station’s lock-up in Montego Bay, St James, his mother Mercia Fraser still struggles with renewed...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court has set July 15 as the next mention date for Patrick Crawford, the Dutch national who allegedly tried to smuggle $28.3 million worth of cocaine through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport on May 9...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang is asserting that while the security forces have been working to halt the flow of drug smuggling operations through Jamaica’s ports of entry, more needs to be done to disrupt narcotics...
WESTERN BUREAU: In light of recent reports of violence in schools across Jamaica, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has emphasised the ongoing need to prioritise social intervention strategies alongside police support to curb the impact of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man charged in connection with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, has once again been denied bail following his latest appearance in the St James Circuit Court...
WESTERN BUREAU: With Jamaica’s annual hurricane season having started as of June 1, and with 1,522 reported cases of dengue fever in St James since last September, St James’ medical officer of health Dr Tanique Bailey-Small is renewing calls for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Deputy Mayor, Dwight Crawford, is lamenting that not enough families of the deceased buried in the western city’s historical Pye River Cemetery are helping to maintain the 128-year-old burial ground, even as he gives...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court will learn on September 24 whether an application will be made for the ex-girlfriend of Dorrane Bryan, who allegedly posted intimate videos of her on social media without her knowledge, to give evidence...
