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Saint James Parish (Jamaica)

Montego Bay firm owes $50m for electricity

WESTERN BUREAU: A large company in Montego Bay, St James, is the most recent business to be caught with illegal connections to the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) distribution lines. It has since been deemed that the company owes $50 million for the electricity used....

Twenty20 tourney for Montego Bay

WESTERN BUREAU: IN A move aimed at reviving cricket in western Jamaica, a group of enterprising St.James-based sports enthusiasts are now fine-tuning plans to stage a major two-week 20/20 tournament, which will be played at nights under floodlights at Jarrett Park....

DHL positions for growth in Montego Bay, Kingston - After 20 years in Jamaica

DHL Jamaica Limited is investing some US$250,000 ($17.5 million) in expanded office and operational space in the Freeport area of Montego Bay, at the same time that it is spreading its wings in Kingston. DHL Country Manager Steve Garside called it an investment in "expansion for growth ...

Missing persons, human remains keep cops busy

WESTERN BUREAU: A puzzling situation is now facing the police in St James and Trelawny as, while persons are going missing in one division unidentified bodies are being discovered in the other. The Adelphi police in St James are now feverishly searching for a British national...

Veterans recall horrors of war in live broadcast

2008-03-16VETERANS RECALL HORRORS OF WAR IN LIVE BROADCAST By Anna Badkhen / Boston Globe CAMBRIDGE, MA - Liz Jackson's eyes were fixed on a screen showing a live broadcast of anguished testimonies by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans describing what they had seen and done during their combat...

Ocho Rios, Montego Bay will feel cruise ship pinch

Local tourism interests fear Jamaica's cruise-ship capital, Ocho Rios, and tourism Mecca, Montego Bay, will feel the brunt of the reduction in cruise ships this summer as the liners change to Mediterranean and South American itineraries. ... The western Caribbean, which...

$4 billion housing project for Montego Bay - Can-Cara launches Meadows of Irwin today

Can-Cara Development Company is developing an 800-unit housing project in St James, in which it will be pumping $4 billion.The complex is to be done in four phases, the company told the Financial Gleaner on Thursday, ahead of today's launch of the development...

Montego Bay Chamber embraces upgrade of trade and invest office

Western Bureau: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCC) has lauded Government's recent decision to upgrade the western regional office of Jamaica Trade and Invest (formerly JAMPRO), describing it as critical to the growth and development now taking place in the region....

Harvest Co-op fired worker, a union backer

Mar 11, 2008

By Bill Bumpus - The Bridge, March 2008 Deon Furtick, 31, of Roxbury, and a father of three, had worked for four years in the deli at the Jamaica Plain store at 57 South St. He was fired for not punching out for a meal break on January 8th. Furtick had never punched out for meal breaks, and had...

Winty Davidson receives Sir Philip Sherlock Award

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Winston Mendez Davidson, CD, JP, Jamaican pioneer in telemedicine, is the recipient of the Sir Philip Sherlock Award for 2008. He was presented with the award at the 14th International Diabetes Conference at the SunSpree Resort, Montego Bay, last Friday....