WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the newly declared zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood have disputed the assertion of Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson that six gangs operate in the violence-plagued northwestern Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Cognisant of claims that some justices of the peace (JPs) are illicitly charging the public, Westmoreland Custos the Reverend Hartley Perrin has reminded 37 newly installed officers that their services must be voluntary. Perrin,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding has said that Jamaica is now reaping the ill-effects of the Government’s negligence in securing adequate COVID-19 vaccines, which has now forced them to be staggering people to get their second jab....
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the Vaughnsfield Housing Scheme in St James are elated at the news that thanks to a joint project between the St James Municipal Corporation and the National Housing Trust Scheme Upgrading Programme, $34 million will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: At an event last Thursday where embattled Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament emerged as a slight distraction, Education Minister Faval Williams declared that approximately 125,000 tablets and laptops would be delivered to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling for increased rotation of the security forces assigned to the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mt Salem, St James, amid complaints by some residents that familiarity is reducing their...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, says the lack of documentation such as birth certificates and taxpayer registration numbers (TRNs) will prevent several senior citizens from...
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Cebert McFarlane of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) is calling on the Government to establish a ‘burn unit’ at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital to treat persons who suffer serious burns that require specialised...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), the umbrella organisation for the business process outsourcing sector, is expected to play a critical role in building out the country’s digital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dawnett Foster, councillor for the Cornwall Mountain division in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), has described a decision by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to increase the initial deposit by new residential...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former government senator Dennis Meadows is calling for an expansion of the HEART/NSTA programme in Trelawny to prepare more residents for employment opportunities in the business processing outsourcing (BPO) sector, which is poised...
WESTERN BUREAU: While praising the association’s presidential core system (the cycle from president-elect to immediate past president), the five aspirants for 2021-2022 Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) president-elect are offering differing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Leighton Johnson, one of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) presidential hopefuls for 2021-2022, wants government to consider offering scholarships to teachers and their children in the instances in which they are not able to...
WESTERN BUREAU: With more than 20 years of service to education under his belt, Leighton Johnson, the principal of Muschett High School in Trelawny, says he is inspired, wired, and ready to transform the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) if he is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) presidential hopeful, Anthony Kennedy, a senior teacher at Kings Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, says electing principals for the association’s top job has been a failing experiment....
WESTERN BUREAU: Glendon Harris, president of the St James branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), says that while greenhouse technology is important in the scheme of things, it is not the best option to improve the production of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James chapter of the Lay Magistrate Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) is calling on Delroy Chuck, minister of justice, to reconsider his decision to create the Justice of the Peace Association, replacing the LMAJ as the sole body...
WESTERN BUREAU: The water woes of approximately 3,000 residents of communities surrounding Claremont and Moneague in South East St Ann are on the verge of coming to an end, thanks to a generous donation of four industrial water tanks from the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ILLEGAL occupation of dump sites in Westmoreland is proving to be quite a costly affair for the Western Parks and Market (WPM) Waste Management as in April alone, they had to fork out over J$2 million to clear the various sites...
WESTERN BUREAU: A decision by Western Parks and Market (WPM) to slash the working hours of street sweepers by half, which translates to a 50 per cent salary cut, has not gone down well with some councillors at the Westmoreland Municipal Cooperation...
WESTERN BUREAU: With more than 500 homicides nationally since the start of 2021, Garfield James, the newly appointed chairman of the Civic and Community Affairs Committee at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), says he wants to see the...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the nation awaits the findings of an investigation into the exposure of thousands of files on the JamCOVID web portal, Jamaicans have been cautioned that no government database is impenetrable.
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of National Security is to review legislation governing private security firms with a view to establishing the requisite operational standards by which they can operate effectively. Senator Matthew Samuda, minister...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the Government making the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 jab available, 10 per cent of the prison population has so far taken the shot. The disclosure was made Thursday by Senator Matthew Samuda,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Matthew Samuda says the Government’s ambitious drive to bring unregulated security companies in line with established operating policies and guidelines has been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic has hit the...
