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JLP routed PNP in western blowout

Published:Friday | February 26, 2016 | 3:05 PMAdrian Frater

Despite being declared a fallacy by at least one noted political analyst, the notion that 'where the west goes, the rest will follow' was again in evidence on Thursday night, as on its way to winning the 2016 general election, the Jamaica Labour...

Heavy rains lash MoBay, homes flooded - fire fighters rescue trapped motorist

Published:Saturday | February 27, 2016 | 2:51 PMAdrian Frater

The heavy rains that have been lashing sections of St James since last Friday afternoon resulted in significant flooding in several sections of downtown Montego Bay yesterday.Several houses in the newly constructed Port Bello Housing Scheme, near...

PHOTOS: Houses and streets flooded in MoBay, police and Fire Department monitoring situation

Published:Saturday | February 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater, News Editor

Western Bureau: The heavy rains that have been lashing section of St James since late Friday afternoon resulted in significant flooding in several sections of downtown Montego Bay and has left several houses in the newly constructed Port Bello...

Clarke upstages Foster in Central St James

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

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The JLP is suffering from political amnesia – PJ Patterson

Published:Monday | February 22, 2016 | 2:01 PMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:In seeking to make a mockery of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) promise to bring prosperity to Jamaica should the party win tomorrow's general election, former prime minister and People's National Party (PNP) stalwart, P.J. Patterson...

Ffolkes-Abrahams vs Malahoo Forte should be a classic

Published:Thursday | February 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

When voters in the county of Cornwall go to the polls for the 2016 general election on Thursday, six women with solid academic credentials four from the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and two from the ruling People's National Party (PNP),...

Smooth start to voting out west

Published:Monday | February 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater, News Editor

Western Bureau: Voting for Election Day workers and members of the security forces has been progressing smoothly in western Jamaica except for isolated instances where persons have not found their names on the Voters' List where they were...

Cops ready for PNP’s MoBay mass rally

Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2016 | 2:53 PMAdrian Frater

Senior Superintendent of Police Steve McGregor, the commanding officer for St James police division, says the police will be pulling out all the stops to ensure that this Sunday's People's National Party (PNP) mass meeting, which will be staged in...

Fun, frolic, intrigue and violence

Published:Thursday | February 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Had it not been for the shooting up of a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) motorcade in Flanker, St James, nomination day 2016 would have been a joyful experience in western Jamaica based on fun, frolic and intrigue, which unfolded elsewhere.While the guns...

Of fallacy, reality and winning the west

Published:Thursday | February 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

With Nomination day 2016 now history, all eyes will be on February 25, when the nation will go to the polls to elect a new government. As is customary, the 15 constituencies in western Jamaica will be firmly under the microscope.While renowned...

Akon, Ikaya sizzle in MoBay

Published:Monday | February 8, 2016 | 12:14 PMAdrian Frater

WESTERN BUREAU:While it had moments of brilliance in between protracted band changes and two high-profile 'no shows' at the end, Friday night's concert segment of the inaugural One Love Music Festival was somewhat disappointing.The closing set by...

#JaVotes2016: Holness announces bold first 100 days plan - Opposition Leader eyes fixed election date, term limits for PM and referendum on CCJ

Published:Monday | February 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Opposition Leader eyes fixed election date, term limits for PM and referendum on CCJWestern Bureau:Should the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) emerge victorious in the upcoming general election, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness intends to make a number of...

Triple murder rocks Salt Spring - Gangsters armed with AK47s, M16s and shotguns

Published:Wednesday | February 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:Meggie Top in Salt Spring, St James, is now a community in mourning as residents struggled to come to grips with Tuesday night's brutal murder of three residents who were slaughtered in a bar/nightclub by 10 marauding gangsters who...

Eyesore of the week

Published:Friday | January 29, 2016 | 7:22 PMAdrian Frater

Crowds cram buses in Central St James - Enthusiastic Comrades flood Half-Way Tree for mass meeting

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau: It was a case of too many Comrades for the buses yesterday in Central St James as enthusiastic People’s National Party (PNP) supporters turned out in huge numbers to make the trek from Montego Bay to the party’s mass...

Shot pregnant woman recovering in hospital

Published:Monday | January 25, 2016 | 5:06 PMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:Janice Hines, the 21-year-old pregnant St James woman who was shot and seriously injured when the police reportedly opened fire on the taxi in which she was travelling last Friday morning, is now in stable condition in hospital and is...

Scores of sex workers detained in MoBay

Published:Friday | January 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater, News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU: Scores of male and female sex workers were this morning taken into custody in a major police operation in Montego Bay. They are now being processed at the Freeport Police Station. In recent months, the number of sex workers have...

Ex-mayor Haughton's nepotism case in limbo - MOCA unaware of any investigations taking place

Published:Monday | January 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:Almost two months after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) reversed an earlier decision not to press charges against the former Lucea mayor Councillor Shernett Haughton, who is accused of unlawfully awarding J$3.7...

Double salute for Sanchez - Major acts rushed due to long line-up

Published:Sunday | January 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:Singer Sanchez made a spectacular return to the local major concert stage on Friday night, earning a double encore with a dazzling performance on the opening night of Rebel Salute 2016 at Grizzly's Plantation Cove, Priory, St Ann,...

Move afoot to assist Canterbury fire victims

Published:Tuesday | January 12, 2016 | 4:05 PMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:As the victims of Monday's devastating early morning fire in the Canterbury community in Montego Bay, St James, continue to ponder ways of putting their lives back together, their local political representative, councillor Suzette...

Volatile Cornwall Courts to get police post

Published:Wednesday | January 13, 2016 | 2:29 PMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:Residents of Cornwall Courts in Montego Bay, St James, who were left traumatised by a spate of gangland-style lotto scam-related shootings towards the end of last year, are now breathing a sigh of relief as indications are that the...

The great escape - Poor infrastructure, negligence and management enabling jailbreaks

Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

With crime currently at an intimidating level in western Jamaica, the escape of eight accused murderers in recent jailbreaks in St James and Westmoreland has left one of region's top crime-fighters extremely unhappy, if not totally flustered."It is...

PNP president calls for unity, admits there are issues to be resolved

Published:Friday | December 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

WESTERN BUREAU:People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller has admitted that there are issues to be resolved in her party, but she has not given any details of these issues.Hours after one of the party's vice-presidents, Dr Angela...

Apologise and compensate Rastafari, says public defender - Investigations reveal Rastas suffered unjustly in Coral Gardens incident

Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater

Western Bureau:After years of agitation, the local Rastafarian community has finally got an official acknowledgment, through an investigation conducted by the Office of the Public Defender, that its adherents were unjustly treated in the 1963 Coral...

Taxi-operator killed gangland-style in MoBay.... Student passengers flee for their lives

Published:Friday | December 4, 2015 | 5:36 PMAdrian Frater

WESTERN BUREAU:FOR ONE resident, it was like a "scene from a gangster movie" yesterday when Otis 'Breezy' Ellis, a taxi operator, was shot and killed and his passengers, five preparatory school children, had to flee for their lives as gunmen opened...

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