Western

Career & Education

From setbacks to success

Anissa McLeish’s resilience rewarded with life-changing scholarship

January 11 12:00 AM

From setbacks to success

Business

Built from scraps: Bandit Headbands

January 11 12:00 AM

Built from scraps: Bandit Headbands

Athletics, ...

Strong start to track season at JC Dev Meet

January 11 12:00 AM

Strong start to track season at JC Dev Meet

Health

Support foods for energy, balance and hormone control

BY SUZANNE HILL

January 11 12:00 AM

Support foods for energy, balance and hormone control

Three feared dead in crash near St Elizabeth/ Westmoreland border

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JFB, health ministry reaffirm readiness for major earthquake

January 10 04:51 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica —The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) and the Ministry of Health and Wellness have reaffirmed their readiness to respond effectively in th...

International News, ...

Venezuelan prisoners smile to hear of Maduro’s fall

January 10 03:44 PM

GUATIRE, Venezuela (AFP)—The prisoner's face lit up when his wife visited and told him that the man responsible for his detention was himself behind b...

Regional, Western

Flankers look to conflict resolution

Observer Reporter

August 3, 2001

THE Social Conflict and Legal Reform Project (SCLRP), which was launched earlier this year, started a programme in Flankers, Montego Bay last week wit...

Regional, Western

Trouble in Content, Trelawny

Observer Reporter

July 20, 2001

AN ongoing dispute between two men in the Sherwood Content District of Trelawny, has left one dead and the other facing a charge of murder. Arrested a...

Regional, Western

Darliston Division gets new councillor caretaker

GERALD MILLER, Observer Westmoreland Correspondent

July 20, 2001

TREVOR "Spur" Jemieson has been elected to represent the People's National Party (PNP) in the Darliston Division in the next local government election...

Regional, Western

Ailing 60-year-old accused drug smuggler gets bail

PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter

July 20, 2001

Western Bureau: A 60-year-old man, who has been plagued with a series of ailments and generally poor health since he was incarcerated for possession o...

Regional, Western

ENTERTAINMENT OUT WEST

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

July 20, 2001

Sandals Old Clothes Party Do you have some old clothes lying around the house? Well if you do, dust them off, put them on and head for Pier One tonigh...

Regional, Western

Sandals MoBay trio take environmental awards

Observer Reporter

July 20, 2001

SANDALS Montego Bay's trainee manager, Michal 'Donna' Yitshak, is this year's JHTA environmental champion. And two of her colleagues, 30-year-old bar ...

Regional, Western

Deplorable Maroon Town road irks residents, taxi men

CONROY WALKER, Observer writer

July 20, 2001

Western Bureau -- Taxi operators on the Maroon Town route in St James have been gradually withdrawing their services because of deplorable road condit...

Regional, Western

Westmoreland tackles stray animal problem as of Monday

GERALD MILLER, Observer correspondent

July 20, 2001

COME Monday, the Westmoreland Parish Council will begin ridding the parish streets of stray animals. The revived effort comes in the wake of the const...

Regional, Western

5,000 Westmoreland residents benefit from $160m water project

GERALD MILLER, Observer correspondent

July 20, 2001

THE recent commissioning of a $160-million water system in Gordons, Westmoreland will translate into a potable water supply system for more than 5, 00...

Regional, Western

The determined artist

GERALD MILLER, Observer Westmoreland Correspondent

July 20, 2001

KHADNEAL Patten started drawing at age four. And despite strong discouragement from his parents, who had wanted him to focus his energies on his schoo...

Regional, Western

JFJ stages vigil to mark street people removal

ETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter

July 13, 2001

WESTERN BUREAU The civic action group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) will today hold a memorial service for three homeless men who they claimed went miss...

Regional, Western

ENTERTAINMENT OUT WEST

July 13, 2001

Trelawny comes alive The usually quiet parish of Trelawny comes alive this weekend with a number of entertainment activities slated to be held across ...

Regional, Western

Sangster airport upgrades private aircraft facilities

CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Western Bureau editor

July 13, 2001

THE recently completed $10m General Aviation Facility at the Sangster International Airport is expected to cut down on the processing time for passeng...

Regional, Western

Western Weekend in Sports

July 6, 2001

FOOTBALL: The Trelawny division one football competition continues today with three games down to be played. In a double-header at Unity, Nampel take ...

Regional, Western

Horticulture Society nurturing young gardeners

GERALD MILLER, Observer correspondent

July 6, 2001

THE curtains came down on the second staging of the Westmoreland Horticulture Society's best kept garden competition a fortnight ago, but in several h...

Regional, Western

$200M water project for Hanover communities

Observer Reporter

July 6, 2001

Western Bureau Having finally sourced the funding for a $200 M water project in the Askenish section of Hanover, the water ministry recently broke gro...

Regional, Western

WI Umpires convention well attended

WILBERT PARKES

July 6, 2001

THE 20th biennial convention of the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA), which was hosted by the Jamaica Cricket Umpires Association in Ja...

Regional, Western

UDC to restart public meetings

Observer Reporter

July 6, 2001

Western Bureau -- The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is currently examining ways in which it can improve communication with members of the public...

Regional, Western

Hanover gets its first female Custos

OBSERVER CORRESPONDENT

July 6, 2001

WESTERN BUREAU History was created in the parish of Hanover, when 69-year-old retired public health nurse, Mavis Maud King was last Wednesday sworn in...

Regional, Western

Cop impersonator nabbed

Petre Williams

July 6, 2001

Western Bureau -- Montego Bay resident Donovan Grant, who stole $65,000 from a computer shop while posing as a police officer, was on Thursday sentenc...

Regional, Western

Chang offers solutions to street vending problem

CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Observer staff reporter

July 6, 2001

JAMAICA Labour Party caretaker for North West St James, Dr Horace Chang, said the authorities need to develop a clear plan of action in order to comba...