WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad has labelled as “insanity” the practice of running utility cables above ground in a hurricane-prone country as he urged town planners to also upgrade sewerage systems as they push for development...
WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad has said that the poor should not be blamed for the plethora of shanty towns and informal settlements across the island as it is the rich, who, in creating towns and cities with high-rise...
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Mount Salem in St James, a section of which has been under a zone of special operations (ZOSO) for the past three years, is to get a state-of-the-art police station as the security initiative winds down. This was...
Western Bureau: Tamoy Sinclair, the disaster coordinator at the St James Municipal Corporation, has said the coronavirus pandemic has provided the corporation with an insight into how to provide for persons such as the working-class individuals...
Western Bureau: The General Council of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has again rescheduled its long-overdue presidential elections, which is slated to select a president-elect for the 2020-2021 administrative year. It is expected that a...
Western Bureau: Marlene Malahoo-Forte, member of parliament for St James West Central, says the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the annual parenting seminar which forms part of her educational support programme, leaving many parents grappling with...
WESTERN BUREAU: TERTIARY STUDENTS who received financial assistance valued at more than $3 million from their St James West Central member of Parliament, Marlene Malahoo-Forte, promised to transform their community following the end of their course...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) boss Jasford Gabriel is calling on the nation’s teacher-training institutions to revamp their programmes to create the capacity for graduates to be able to manage online teaching, which they are...
Western Bureau: This month’s polls to find a president-elect for the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) could be a low-keyed affair, as according to Jasford Gabriel, fewer than half of the association’s 25,000 delegates have been verified to cast...
WESTERN BUREAU: It would appear that the number 19 holds much significance in the life of Nevinne Blake, a resident of Bethel Town, Westmoreland, who recently graduated from Anchovy High School in St James at age 19 with a grand total of 19...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Garth Anderson, the dean of the Teachers Colleges’ of Jamaica (TCJ), has revealed that teaching practice for approximately 800 trainee teachers has been affected by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the...
Western Bureau: Dr Marcia Graham, the medical officer of health for Westmoreland, says 62 community health aides have been added to the Westmoreland Public Health Services to boost the parish’s capacity to track and trace persons exposed to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Charles Edward James, Jamaica’s oldest citizen, has died. He passed away at his Holly Hill home in Darliston, Westmoreland, on Sunday morning. James, affectionately called ‘Maas Tata’, was reportedly born on February 3, 1905, in...
WESTERN BUREAU: The coral reef in Negril, Westmoreland, has received a major injection with the planting of 150 pieces of coral in the Orange Bay Fish Sanctuary on International Coastal Clean-up Day (ICCD), which was observed last Friday. With this...
WESTERN BUREAU: Moreland Wilson, the newly elected member of Parliament for Westmoreland Western, says he is targeting the construction of 1,000 affordable housing solutions in the constituency over the next four years. According to Wilson, over...
WESTERN BUREAU: After emerging as the member of parliament-elect in a nail-biting magisterial recount for Westmoreland Eastern, Daniel Lawrence vowed on Tuesday to rebuild public trust by addressing long-standing infrastructural blight. Lawrence...
WESTERN BUREAU: Daniel Lawrence of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has turned the corner and widened the gap on People’s National Party’s (PNP) opponent Luther Buchanan in the race for the Westmoreland Eastern seat. Buchanan, the incumbent, has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lawyers representing Luther Buchanan, the embattled political incumbent of the People’s National Party (PNP) in the Westmoreland Eastern constituency, have served notice seeking to challenge a ruling made against accepting ballots...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has expressed his frustration at the protracted delay in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) building becoming fully operational. “I am very frustrated by what is happening. Most of the...
Western Bureau: While Moreland Wilson, the member of parliament-elect for Westmoreland Western is a rookie in representational politics, he is considered one of the very few Jamaicans who can speak authoritatively on the issue of electronic voting...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sixty young men from Montego Bay and other parts of western Jamaica will become the first students to enrol at the Monsignor Gladstone Wilson College, the country’s newest all-boys educational institution. The Rev Ronald Thwaites,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Outgoing Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte has promised that Jamaicans will be able to cast their votes remotely by the next general election, due constitutionally in September 2025. Speaking with The Gleaner, the member of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lawyers representing Daniel Lawrence, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate in Westmoreland Eastern, have indicated that they will be seeking a magisterial recount of the ballots cast last Thursday to determine the ultimate...
WESTERN BUREAU: The sons of 83-year-old Avis Ledgister are still in shock after their mother died suddenly on election day, missing out on her decades-long tradition of voting for whoever was the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate in St...
WESTERN BUREAU People’s National Party (PNP) veteran Dr Karl Blythe and former deputy speaker of the House Lloyd B. Smith have expressed the view that poor representation, internal leadership conflicts, and a lack of funding are among the myriad...
