Western Focus

While some European cities have established 'red light district' to regulate prostitution, in Jamaica, where the so-called 'oldest profession' is an offence under the Sexual Offences Act, the Offences Against the Person Act and the Towns and...

Except for the parish of Hanover, pimento farmers in western Jamaica are steadily drifting away from the cultivation of the crop as its commercial appeal has been relegated to the sale of leaves to the essential oil industry, resulting in pimento...

research has shown that the assault on Jamaican pimento trees is nothing new, especially among players in some sections of the manufacturing sector.According to a lecture on Jamaican pimento, which was published by the University of the West Indies...

Having doors repeatedly shut on him when he pitched the idea of sharing his life with the world through poetry did little to dim the deep-rooted passion of Leon Pryce.The poet became an inspiration to readers, and other authors alike, after he...

The Barrett Town All-Age School in St James recently benefited from a $700,000 structural upgrading project, which was funded by the internationally acclaimed Half Moon Hotel.Under the project, an old computer room was converted into a new library,...

Katrin Casserly, the chairman of Hanover Charities - the charitable arm of the Round Hill Hotel - was last Wednesday installed as the patron of the Hanover 4-H Clubs Parish Advisory Council in a ceremony at the Grand Palladium Hotel, also in Hanover...

Glendon Harris, the chairman of the St James branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), says western Jamaica could rescue the island's banana industry if the region got the same kind of support that is being given to the eastern parishes."...

With obesity on the rise worldwide, more and more pregnant women will now be obese. Weight management interventions will need to be carefully chosen during pregnancy due to the unborn child. What about exercise, is it safe?Obesity during pregnancy...

The St James Police Division has reported that nearly half of the murders committed in parish in 2015, have been solved.In a recent interview with Western Focus, Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of the St James Division, Steve McGregor,...

Whatdo youthink canbe doneto curb thenumber of motorcycle accidents in Hanover and Westmore-land?Dwayne Clayton, businessman:"The buyer should be asked to present his driver's licence when he goes to purchase a motorcycle, and the motorcycle should...

Western Bureau:Some stakeholders in Westmoreland and Hanover are expressing concern about the ease with which young men in both parishes are able to access motorcycles even as the death rate from motorbike accidents continues to escalate there.For...