WESTERN BUREAU: Jeffery Smith, the western regional manager at the National Water Commission (NWC), says the ongoing drought conditions in Westmoreland have resulted in water levels at some of the parish’s major supply systems falling to as low as...
WESTERN BUREAU: Winston Maragh, president of the Association of Local Government Authorities of Jamaica (ALGAJ), has said that he is prepared to be the first councillor to resign if political representatives serving in the island's 14 municipal...
WESTERN BUREAU: State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Homer Davis, says technical officers aligned to the Rural Agricultural Development Agency (RADA) are not providing the kind of support local farmers need to strengthen their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Franklin Witter, the state minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, is urging all Jamaicans to get involved in farming, even backyard gardening, as a way of helping to increase food crop production as the nation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Somewhat stung by the result of the most recent People’s National Party’s (PNP)-commissioned Don Anderson poll, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is now begging Jamaicans not to turn their backs on his Government and is urging them to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several police officers and civilian employees assigned to the Westmoreland Police Division were rewarded for their efforts to serve and protect residents of the western parish, which has become a major challenge to law enforcement...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the unemployment rate now at 28 per cent in Westmoreland, Keith Duncan, co-chair of the social transformation and renewal initiative Project STAR, says the organisation is actively seeking to find and train for the job market...
WESTERN BUREAU: ROBIN RUSSELL, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), wants the Government to invest a further $45 billion towards expanding and rehabilitating several public hospitals across the island. Speaking at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Head of the country’s crime and security portfolio in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey, has warned the Government against differences that may cause obstructions to police officers that...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the global outbreak of the coronavirus, which significantly impacted Jamaica, has elevated the importance of forging public-private partnerships in the delivery of healthcare...
WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that a scarcity of skilled labour in some sectors locally can be linked to a redefining of how people are now viewing work. While industry leaders have reported that they...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Josephs and his team of more than 400 police officers who serve the various units in the Westmoreland Police Division were on Friday honoured by the Kiwanis Club of Westmoreland. Tracey Brown-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Even though Negril, Westmoreland, enjoys far better closed circuits television (CCTV) coverage than most towns in Jamaica, which allows substantial monitoring by state agency, JamaicaEye, the business community in the resort town is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte says it is too early to say whether Jamaicans will be required to vote simultaneously in the planned referendum and the next general election. According to Malahoo...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sixty anti-domestic violence advocates were equipped with professional strategies and methods to respond to people seeking refuge from abuse in their homes and otherwise by retired Deputy Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant...
Residents of Petersfield, the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) division once held by George Wright, who left that position to successfully campaign to become a member of parliament, say that since his departure they have not been getting...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jacqueline Brown, the acting senior education officer in the Ministry of Education’s Region Four, says the new infant department at the Content Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland has now placed the institution in line to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business leaders in Negril, Westmoreland, want the Government to enact stronger laws to protect the island’s tourism product, including to ensure that all persons seeking to earn from the hospitality do so legally and in an orderly...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says there will be a public order reset in Negril, Westmoreland, as part of the effort to protect the image of that resort town. Chang, who had a private meeting with 13 business leaders...
Western Bureau: Appreciative smiles lingered on many faces in Content, Westmoreland, as residents of the quiet, rural farming community welcomed the unveiling of the newly constructed unit to house the infant department at the Content Primary and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has disclosed that more men are stepping forward to report cases of domestic violence against them by their spouses. Over the years, several men have shied away from making such...
Deputy president of the Senate, Charles Sinclair, wants the country’s Maintenance Act enforced on children who have turned their backs on their parents and grandparents in infirmaries. Sinclair wants them held accountable for the care and...
WESTERN BUREAU: ‘TIMELY’ WAS the immediate response from Garvin Atkinson, principal of Chetwood Memorial Primary School in St James, after receiving snack packages for his students from Rev. Burchell McPherson, Bishop of Montego Bay, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: RETIRED DEPUTY Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant says it has become too easy for predators to attack, rape and kill children across the island, noting that many adults have not fulfilled their role as guardians of children...
WESTERN BUREAU: LEEROY WILLIAMS, chairman of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC), is claiming that short-sightedness between the commercial services and road and works department of the corporation caused the obstruction it is experiencing...
