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Mayor of Port Maria Fitzroy Wilson has a discussion with a fish vendor, while head of the St Mary police division, Superintendent Anthony Wallace looks on.
14 Oct, 2025 0

Mayor seeking to restore order to St Mary capital’s streets

PORT MARIA, St Mary: Port Maria Mayor Fitzroy Wilson has declared that no effort will be spared in restoring law and order on the streets, which are currently being overrun by illegal vending in the…
Dr Delroy Fray
13 Oct, 2025 0

Trauma overload

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is raising concern about the alarming number of victims of motor vehicle accidents who were…
News
13 Oct, 2025 0

Fake jobs, bogus invoices

A domestic helper unknowingly employed by the Ministry of Education is among the key allegations in the $25-million fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean…
Former parliamentarian Karl Samuda.
13 Oct, 2025 0

No meeting of minds on committees stalemate

Karl Samuda, who was the leader of government business when then PM Bruce Golding handed the chairmanship of parliamentary oversight committees to the Opposition, has suggested that the experiment did…
Rudy Campbell stands beside the trunk of the guinep tree that fell on his Castleton, St Mary home of more than 20 years, completely destroying two rooms and damaging the others.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Elderly farmer pleads for help to rebuild home destroyed by heavy rains

Rudy Campbell, from Castleton, St Mary, is living in a precarious condition. Just over a week ago, heavy rains and winds from a freak storm uprooted a guinep tree that landed on his four-bedroom…
District Officer Andre Fullwood of the Westmoreland Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade addressing a Westmoreland Municipal Corporation meeting last Thursday.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Westmoreland Fire Brigade reports surge in emergency calls amid ambulance challenges

WESTERN BUREAU: While fire calls were down by 14 per cent nationally in 2023-2024, the situation was far different in Westmoreland, which registered a staggering 35 per cent increase that was further…
Superintendent  Andrew Nish.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Nish: Hanover looking at new strategies to sustain crime reduction

WESTERN NUREAU: Superintendent Andrew Nish, head of the Hanover Police Division, says he is encouraged by a significant decline in murders and shootings in the western parish. Despite this overall…
NPCA President Ivin Malahoo heaping praise on her colleagues for their dedicated service.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Nat’l Patient Care Assn celebrates 35th anniversary

WESTERN BUREAU: A sea of pink and white filled the Glendevon New Testament Church of God in Montego Bay, St James, on Sunday as the National Patient Care Association (NPCA) celebrated its 35th…
Hamish Campbell, assistant commissioner of INDECOM Jamaica, revealling the findings of the oversight body’s ‘Special Investigative Report on Planned Police Operations’ during a press conference at its New Kingston offices on Thursday.
09 Oct, 2025 0

FATAL RED FLAG

In one of every five planned police operations in which a civilian is killed at home, a female occupant of the premises is either removed or barred from the ill-fated area moments before the cops…