Western Focus

Western Bureau:Come tonight, the small seaside fishing village of Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth will come alive as its premier tourism hub, Jakes, dubbed the 'chickest' shack of all times, will commence the celebration of its 20th anniversary.

WESTERN BUREAU:A St James businessman, who is accused of stealing parts from a motor car he was given to make repairs to, appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday but had his case deferred to April.

Western Bureau:While the slaughter of his two daughters overshadowed his own act of suicide, last week's death of 34-year-old farmer Kenville Mullings of Woodgrove district in Wait-a-Bit, Trelawny, is the third case of suicide in that section of the parish in a mere four months.

Barbara Smith, former principal of Montego Bay High School and a flower enthusiast, smiles as she looks at a sepal at the Celebration of Orchids show staged by the Montego Bay Orchid Society at the Montego River Gardens in Porto Bello, Montego Bay, last Saturday.

The SOS Children's Village at Barnett Town in St James climbed on to the St James tennis radar officially last Saturday with the first instalment of the Spoon's Auto Supplies Tennis Challenge series, which featured children from the village.

Not getting enough sleep can make you miserable, sleepy during the day, and have problems concentrating. A noisy environment can interfere with sleep. One of the most common causes of a noisy bedroom is snoring. Snoring can wreak havoc on a relationship; rectifying it can literally save marriages at times.

We Care for Cornwall Regional Hospital, the enterprising group of Jamaicans working to assist the Montego Bay-based medical facility, will be heading to the institution shortly to present the administration with a $6-million gift to purchase badly needed equipment to improve service delivery, especially for blood transfusions for young children.

Seven years ago when the House of Leeds Recording Studio, based in Little London, Westmoreland, opened for business, it created quite a buzz, attracting several top-flight recording artistes who wanted to work with its engineer/producer, the dynamic David 'D-Mo' Morris, who was only 16 years old at the time.

The firefighters who were displaced when the Barnett Street Fire Station in Montego Bay was demolished to facilitate the construction of a new state-of-the-art building have been struggling at the temporary location in Freeport.

A rich chunk of Montego Bay's history is now in the possession of a taxi operator who found a crocus bag laden with old photographs in an abandoned building two years ago and decided to keep them in the hope that they might turn out to be valuable.

A St James man, who confessed to breaking into a printing office and stealing three computers, was remanded in custody in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday.