WESTERN BUREAU:The work of the local arm of the international Girls' Brigade, which is currently celebrating Girl's Brigade Month, was highlighted last Sunday during a lively church service at the St Paul's United Church in Montego Bay.
Western Bureau:Fifteen-year-old Roshé McKenzie is a natural leader. Recently, she got an opportunity to demonstrate just that when she travelled to the United States (US) to participate in the youth ambassadors' programme, an initiative of the US Embassy in Jamaica.
Western Bureau:Anger is still brewing in the Shrewsbury district near Petersfield, Westmoreland, where three young men were killed in an alleged police shoot-out, which residents claim was cold-blooded murder.
Western Bureau:Saddled with a $10,000-per-day budget to feed St James' indigent population, the Montego Bay-based Open Heart Charitable Mission is appealing to residents and business interests in the western parish to open their wallets and their hearts to support its cause.
Western Bureau:With Jamaica's tourism seemingly under threat internationally from the bad publicity associated with the infamous lottery scam, well-known Seventh-day Adventist pastor, the Reverend Charles Brevitt, ...
While the major spoils went to Calabar High School and Holmwood Technical in the 2013 ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships, Munro College's Delano Williams was the pick of western Jamaica.
Western Bureau:Negril-based party promoter and businessman Gregory Senior, who is responsible for the Easter weekend party series West Affair, slated for March 29-31, is offering discounted tickets.
From left: Dr Carleene Grant-Davis, paediatric head at the Cornwall Regional Hospital, is all smiles as she holds on to the cheque valued at just over $6 million, which will be used to purchase two well-needed ventilators for the paediatric ward.
Thirty-four employees of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay were rewarded for their dedicated service to the institution. During the function, 21 main awards, 10 departmental awards, and three distinguished service awards were handed out.
The Errol Rattray Evangelistic Association (EREA) and the United States-based Free Wheelchair Mission recently donated wheelchairs to the needy in western Jamaica.
After inking a sponsorship deal with Britain-based entrepreneur-reggae artiste Levi Roots, businessman Worrell King, the CEO of King of Kings Promotion, has announced a solid all-star cast for Western Consciousness 2013, which will be staged at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Saturday, April 13.
Assisting 10 tertiary students with their education is not a small task, but that is exactly what the western Jamaica-based Wise Women Club has been doing with funds generated through its annual charity event, the Wise Women Club's Fun Day.
The United States-based Bubbly Bares Travel Group has come up with a novel way to translate their love for Jamaica. They recently made cash donations, which would contribute to the educational development of several children of employees of Hedonism II Resort in Negril.
With obesity becoming a problem worldwide, individuals and governments are becoming increasingly interested in ways to achieve weight loss that is effective in more persons. Sometimes desperation sets in and persons may listen to anyone with an idea.
When he visited the offices of The Gleaner's Western Bureau last week, building contractor Walton Dunstan was on the verge of tears. He had not seen or heard anything about his son Shemar since the child's mother took him away from the Catherine Hall Primary School in St James in early May 2010.
It would appear that Sunday's shooting incident in which a man fired several rounds into the coffin of his brother, who had killed himself after murdering his two young daughters, was not the only shooting which took place at the burial in Woodgrove district in Wait-A-Bit, Trelawny.
A St James farmer, who reportedly threw a stone and caused serious injury to the face of a man with whom he had earlier had a dispute, will be sentenced in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday, April 5.
A case against a St James locksmith who confessed to stealing a taxi operator's keys was dismissed when he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday.
Western Bureau:The teaching-learning process at the Albert Town Primary and Infant School in Trelawny has got a major boost thanks to the multimillion-dollar plans to upgrade the school plant, which should ultimately allow the 651 students to enjoy an...
Western Bureau:While many youngsters would not consider a career in agriculture a viable option, 22-years-old Christopher Beharie is proving that with the right attitude and the requisite effort, farming can bring great success and a sense of independence.
Western Bureau:As was customary, back in May 2010, building contractor Walton Dunstan, who resides in Content district in Adelphi, St James, took his then 10-year-old son, Shemar, to school at Catherine Hall Primary School in...
Western Bureau:Jamaica's Davis Cup player Macoy Malcolm walked away with $20,000 and the male professional singles title on Sunday when he emerged victorious in the Rankine Invitational Tennis Tournament played at Sea Garden Beach Resort Tennis Club in Montego Bay.
