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Efforts are now being made by the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation to have a 91-year-old woman who is said to be the victim of rapes be relocated to the parish's infirmary for her safety.  Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar Bertel Moore told The...

Amid the low voter turnout in the 2016 local government elections, 14 divisions saw winning candidates raking in more than eight per cent of the votes cast, with 11 of those divisions in Kingston and St Andrew. The remaining four such divisions...

WESTERN BUREAU: Desmond McKenzie, minister of local government and community development, says he is disturbed that the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has been leasing out public markets across the parish without following established...

WESTERN BUREAU: Irresponsible cattle farmers and the absence of an adequate municipal pound in Westmoreland have led to several fatal collisions with no redress to survivors. Ian Myles, the Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Little London...

Councillor for the Grange Hill Division in Westmoreland Western Lawton McKenzie is to again cut ties with the People's National Party (PNP) to become an independent. This will happen tomorrow, Tuesday, January 16.  Last July, McKenzie...

GRANGE HILL, Westmoreland — Councillor Lawton McKenzie on Monday signalled his intention to make another jump in his political allegiance hopscotch, declaring that by today he will be an independe...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland — The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation is making yet another attempt to curb street vending, and Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar Bertel Moore has put on notice a politicia...

WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor Bertel Moore, chairman of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) and mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, has admitted that the town is not in the best shape right now as a result of large-scale vending on the sidewalks of...

Elaine Allen-Bradley, head of the 70-member Negril Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), has blasted the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) which she blames for the protracted delay of the setting up of a fruit and vegetables market for...