WESTERN BUREAU: DEPUTY PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Charles Sinclair, is pressing for the country’s Maintenance Act to be enforced in cases where persons have abandoned their elderly, particularly parents and grandparents, in infirmaries....
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH RESPIRATORY challenges running high among children, a good Samaritan in Geri-Ann Miller, through her Geri-Care Gift Box charity, donated much-needed nebulisers to the paediatric ward at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government will be taking steps to employ mental-health professionals to treat several cases that have developed in infirmaries across the island. Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie said that the...
WESTERN BUREAU: BOOSTED BY the success of composting and the recycling of plastic bottles in Chambers Pen, Hanover, the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will be expanding those activities into other western parishes. Dramaine Jones...
WESTERN BUREAU: While National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is suggesting that the Area One command could be relocated from St James to Westmoreland when the new divisional headquarters (HQ) for the latter is built, Assistant Commissioner of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Construction works have resumed on two separate two-storey buildings, valued at approximately $350 million, to house the Little London and Frome police stations in Westmoreland. The disclosure was made last week by Dr Horace Chang,...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS OF Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland are now in a better position to transform their lives through music and sports, having received a donation of assorted musical equipment and sporting gear under the Ministry of...
Western Bureau: At least 12 of the approximately 25 water truck operators in Westmoreland are to receive credentials to legally transport potable water to residents in communities where the commodity is not regularly available. That is according to...
WESTERN BUREAU: With some 50 new cases of the coronavirus detected in the parish since the start of the year, the Westmoreland Health Department is urging the public to step up their efforts at protecting themselves from being infected. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: Business and civic leaders in western Jamaica are divided on whether the Holness administration should send members of the country’s security forces to Haiti as part of a multinational response aimed at restoring public order in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: PATRICK FORRESTER, president of the Petersfield Taxi Association in Westmoreland, says his members did not join Monday’s protest against aspects of the new Road Traffic Act provisions because they have not yet caught the fever. He...
WESTERN BUREAU: GLAZETER LESLIE, a senior clergy member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Westmoreland, wants the leadership of service clubs in Jamaica to do more to protect and shield children from predators, and other forms of abuse being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Glazeter Leslie, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland said that too many Jamaicans are being sympathetic to perpetrators who defraud others out of their money. Leslie said there are multiple cases...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ROTARY Club of Savanna-la-Mar in its most recent community and vocational awards ceremony honoured six outstanding citizens of Westmoreland for their unwavering service in the fields of community development, sports, mechanical...
WESTERN BUREAU: Much of Jamaica’s crime and violence crisis is evidence of the lingering effects of childhood trauma, a western Jamaica physician has said. Dr Sherridene Lee, president of the Western Medical Association (WMA), has expressed...
WESTERN BUREAU: DR ELIZABETH Ward, a member of the European Union (EU) technical assistance team looking at crime prevention in Jamaica, has indicated that plans are being finalised to establish a child-adolescent guidance clinic to help treat and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Everald Warmington has rebuked former Prime Minister Bruce Golding for suggesting that the Government has not been blameless in the Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) saga as it issues licences to investment houses, indicating to...
WESTERN BUREAU: GOOD SHEPHERD Foundation Medical Centre, the healthcare arm of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montego Bay, has received six nebulisers to aid their mission in caring for children and their parents in underserved communities across...
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESS LEADERS in Negril, Jamaica’s most westerly resort town in Westmoreland, say the destination is poised to receive an influx of senior visitors to the area because of the multimillion dollar state-of-the-art Omega Medical...
WESTERN BUREAU: OMEGA MEDICAL Hospital in Negril, Westmoreland, has been described as a game-changer in the field of healthcare services by patients, medical practitioners, and the business community, having successfully performed its first surgery...
WESTERN BUREAU: MOSES CHYBAR, head of Westmoreland’s commerce and industry lobby has welcomed an investment of approximately $60 billion by Bamboo Bioproducts International (BBI). He said the proposed establishment of a bamboo pulp mill will...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans are being placed on alert for a possible shortage of chicken meat and eggs towards the end of March, heading into April, as a result of a recent animal feed shortage. Dwaine Josephs, deputy parish agricultural manager for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eight aspiring early-childhood and family life educators are to benefit from US$20,000 in scholarship money being awarded by Edmund Bartlett, member of parliament through his East Central St James Education Fund. Bartlett announced...
WESTERN BUREAU: AN UNPAID teaching experience at Camperdown High School has transformed and positioned Ricardo Bennett, an Excelsior High School alumnus who wanted nothing to do with the profession, into becoming the fifth principal of the Sam...
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett is looking to raise US$1.5 million dollars to establish a world-class Early Childhood Centre for Innovation in his constituency.“The focus ... is going to be on the children of the communities...
