WESTERN BUREAU: LOCAL INVESTORS Mint Technologies have broken ground to establish the Black River Tech Park, consisting of a 30,000-square-foot space to facilitate start-up business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in St Elizabeth. This...
WESTERN BUREAU If Tuesday’s tour of Conduent Jamaica’s operations by students of the Montego Bay Community College is anything to go by, the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector could experience a welcome boost of additional talent to its...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE WELCOMING increased interest in providing built-out facilities for business process outsourcing (BPO), the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), the governing body for the BPO sector, says more effort must be made to...
WESTERN BUREAU: DEXROY MARTIN, acting president of the Opposition People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO), says Government’s decision to place the images of former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Edward Seaga alongside former PNP...
WESTERN BUREAU: CLIFTON READER, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), wants an earn-and-learn system for high-school students to be developed in the tourism industry to fast-track the training and recruitment of much-needed...
WESTERN BUREAU: STAKEHOLDERS IN Jamaica’s tourism industry are calling on the Government to intervene and stem the rapid recruitment of skilled workers by their foreign counterparts. In 2019, the tourism sector contributed 9.8 per cent to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: WESTMORELAND BUSINESSMAN Moses Chybar says the Government has not gone far enough in ensuring that the most vulnerable will be protected from increasing global fuel prices, arguing that the practical thing to do was to roll back the...
WESTERN BUREAU: STUDENTS OF Anchovy High School in St James are among more than 30, 000 across 25 high and primary schools who benefited from a donation of information communications technology (ICT) equipment to build out and expand their...
WESTERN BUREAU ALEXANDER BOURNE, principal of Knox College, says Jamaica’s desperate search for peace and full economic growth will not be achieved unless the education system is upgraded to facilitate and afford all Jamaicans access to a high...
WESTERN BUREAU WITH WESTMORELAND’S homicide rate now at 200 per cent above what it was for the same period in 2021, the police are seeking divine intervention to help rescue and redirect the parish’s young people from a destructive pathway. Up to...
WESTERN BUREAU Dr Michelle Pinnock, Region Four director at the Ministry of Education and Youth, says outside of punctuality issues, it was a smooth return of full face-to-face classes for both students and school administrators in St James,...
WESTERN BUREAU: ATTORNEY-AT-LAW REVEREND Ronald Thwaites is warning defendant Kathleen Eugster, owner of over 451 acres of lands in Old Hope, Westmoreland, that any adverse action to remove occupants of the controversial property will be in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Western Jamaica Campus (WJC), in collaboration with Caribbean Producers Jamaica (CPJ), donated much-needed grocery items to the Garland Hall Memorial Children’s Home in...
WESTERN BUREAU: WESTMORELAND SUPERCENTENARIAN Virginia Atkinson-Johnson was a picture of jubilation as she celebrated her 110th birthday with family, friends and members of her beloved People’s National Party (PNP) in Caledonia at the weekend....
WESTERN BUREAU: Private-sector interests have been urged to end the discrimination against poor youth living in Westmoreland’s squatter settlements. The call has been made by Senior Superintendent of Police Robert Gordon, head of the Westmoreland...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright was unceremoniously thrown out of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area Council Four meeting held in Savanna-la-Mar in his constituency on Sunday. Wright, who resigned from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Public Defender Arlene Harrison-Henry says her office is not interested in having prosecutorial powers, brushing aside a demand by the country’s Rastafarian community. The public defender was responding to questions from The...
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD OF the Westmoreland Police Division, Senior Superintendent Robert Gordon, says the youth club movement of the Jamaica Constabulary Force will be introduced to young people as part of the social intervention arm of the zone of...
ALL BUILDING plans above 9,000 square metres must be sent to the Corporate Area for approval by the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), but Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), wants an end to that practice, saying it is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Government has assured stakeholders in Westmoreland that action will be taken to devise a plan towards building a central sewerage system in the parish capital of Savanna-la-Mar, in an effort to advance the development of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the Westmoreland Police Division wants the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) social intervention committee to prioritise the issue of job placements for youth in the troubled Russia community who have already received...
WESTERN BUREAU: EDMUND BARTLETT, member of parliament for St James East Central, has promised to help residents of Barrett Town who are living on captured Crown lands to transform their homes and commercial operations into wealth. Bartlett said the...
WESTERN BUREAU: COUNCILLOR for the Little London division in Westmoreland, Ian Myles, has said builders and potential homeowners are being forced to pay excessive fees upwards of $700,000 to have their properties inspected and passed by private and...
WESTERN BUREAU: HOPETON MATERNITY Health Centre, located in the hills of eastern St James, will be restored and reopened before August 6, when the country celebrates its 60th anniversary of Independence, says Lennox Wallace, manager at the St...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents are increasingly offering information that has bolstered the investigative and intelligence-gathering capacity of the security forces, putting criminals on the back foot, says Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford...
