WESTERN BUREAU: Government Senator Charles Sinclair has expressed deep concern over the growing disrespect for Jamaica’s national symbols, emphasising that they represent the nation’s heritage and identity. Delivering the main address at the Rotary...
WESTERN BUREAU Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte, the member of parliament for St James West Central, is calling for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students to step up and tackle the urgent...
WESTERN BUREAU Gary Sadler, the executive vice-president of sales and industrial relations for Unique Vacations, the worldwide representatives of Sandals and Beaches Resorts, says Jamaica is the envy of the world in the hospitality sector. “What...
WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland Custos Reverend Canon Hartley Perrin has expressed concern over the potential negative impact of US President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan on Jamaica, particularly given that the first phase targets individuals...
Western Bureau: Renowned publisher Lloyd B. Smith, who is also a former president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says work is under way to establish the Sam Sharpe Institute of Public Affairs and Caribbean Thought (SSIPA-CT)...
WESTERN BUREAU: Educators and students from several high schools in Westmoreland are clamouring for the Jamaican electorate to vote directly for a president who will become the head of state under a republic system of government. This movement...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Janice Allen, the People’s National Party (PNP) caretaker candidate for St James Central, has got high marks for a recent town hall meeting she staged, which focused on the high cost of electric energy and her party’s plan...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the resort town of Negril, which has been plagued by a perennial shortage of water, is to get a transformative US$221 million water supply system early in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. This, he...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Andre Haughton, the People’s National Party (PNP) spokesman on science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, says the nation’s teachers deserve special commendation. “It takes a special person to offer themselves and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the establishment of the Red Stripe Experience at Rick’s Café in Negril, Westmoreland, will generate an estimated US$1.5 million in earnings annually and provide approximately 150 new direct...
WESTERN BUREAU: Phillip Paulwell, the opposition spokesman on energy and climate change, says that, should the People’s National Party (PNP) form the next government, it has already developed a plan to reduce the cost of electricity by more than US...
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the development of a National Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Policy is geared towards combating global trafficking in persons, which generates approximately US$236 billion in illegal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is not supportive of a decision to deny potential sanitation workers employment because they lack the basic literacy skills to read at a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lenworth Fulton, immediate past president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), has embraced the Government’s plans to protect farmers from praedial larcenists by rolling out its agricultural warden programme in areas deemed ‘...
WESTERN BUREAU The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is now facing an unexpected hurdle in hiring sanitary workers and street sweepers in Westmoreland, as many of the job-seekers are failing the basic literacy tests. Mark Jones, the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Othneil Dobson, the police commander for the Westmoreland, has revealed that bike taxi and public passenger (PPV) vehicles operators are among the primary offenders in incidents of child sexual abuse and other sexual...
WESTERN BUREAU: The issue of stray animals wandering the streets of Westmoreland could soon be resolved as Agriculture Minister Floyd Green announced that the Chinese-owned Pan Caribbean Sugar Company, which operates the Frome Sugar Factory, has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Patrick Prendergast, director of the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), has emphasised the need for a strategic initiative to ensure that all Jamaicans are aware of and appreciate the events that led to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Miss Westmoreland Festival Queen first runner-up Ann Marie Patrick is celebrating the new age limit for the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen competition. After being herself unable to re-enter the contest in 2006 due to the rules...
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid diverse denomina-tional beliefs, the St James Ministers Fraternal, led by Chairman Pastor Davewin Thomas, has cultivated a spirit of cooperation among religious leaders to tackle pressing community challenges. Pastor Thomas...
WESTERN BUREAU Members of the clergy in St James will remove their pastoral gowns and join the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to clear garbage from the community of Granville on Valentine’s Day. That is according to Pastor...
WESTERN BUREAU: ICON Importers and Distributors, a company with over 25 years of service, has unveiled a major investment in the Global Service Sector (GSS), formally known as business processing outsourcing (BPO). This move will transform the...
WESTERN BUREAU The New Year brought immense joy to the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital, in Westmoreland, as Leana Sewell welcomed her precious son, baby Tahir Whitelocke, into the world yesterday. As the first baby born at the hospital...
WESTERN BUREAU: Olivia Grange, minister of culture, entertainment, gender and sport, says re-enacting the Christmas Rebellion, led by Samuel Sharpe and which ended slavery, is essential to building strong Jamaican families, embracing freedom and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Homer Davis, state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, is bemoaning that Jamaica’s cultural heritage is not getting the type of respect it deserves as its true value appears to be waning as the country moves further away...
