Mount Salem News Today

Semi-final places in VMF Under-13 up for grabs

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WESTERN BUREAU: Mention Mount Salem, St James, and a community rocked by gang violence may enter the minds of many Jamaicans. However, Sitara English-Byfield, the newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of PAC Kingston Airport Limited (PACKAL...

JSIF welcomes plans for NSWMA workers

Very early in the life of this column, I said our decaying society is the root cause of the level of crime now destabilising this country. I have consistently called

Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck is appealing to churches to play a greater role in maintaining peace and harmony within communities. Addressing the ministry’s Restorative Justice Church Service at the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day...

ST JAMES, Jamaica - Minister of Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte is urging members of the security forces to exercise their right to vote in the local government elections on Monday, February 26. "We are in the season where the democratic process is alive and well. The right to vote is a fundamentally guaranteed right. It didn't happen overnight. I do not care what choice you make, because that's a...

Resist!

ST JAMES, Jamaica— A man was taken into custody after lawmen assigned to the Mount Salem police station seized a firearm and ammunition while on patrol on Over Rover main road in St James on Friday, February 9. Reports are that about 2:19am, the police were on patrol in the area when they heard loud explosions and went to investigate. On the police's arrival at a section of the main...

The Mount Salem police in St James, and have taken a man into police custody after he was found with an illegal firearm on Friday.  According to police reports, lawmen were on patrol in the vicinity of the Over River main road sometime...