The National Works Agency (NWA) is carrying out significant improvement work on several road sections in Westmoreland as part of the Agency’s $1.02 billion National Road Services Improvement Programme (NARSIP).

The NARSIP project is a three year routine maintenance contract devoted to bushing, the cleaning of drains and culverts as well as the patching of potholes. Westmoreland is just one of five parishes that have been selected to be a part of this programme. Approximately $123 million is being devoted to roads in Westmoreland.
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As the political landscape continues to heat up, People’s National Party (PNP) President, Portia Simpson Miller, has been making the rounds to stir up grass roots support for her party in a series of constituency conferences

Speaking to a huge audience at the Manning’s High School in Savanna-la-Mar last Sunday at the PNP Women’s Movement 35th Annual Conference, the confident sounding party leader said that an important aspect of moving forward was the rebuilding of the party.

 “It is very important that we rebuild the party unity at this time. This is the key to us being successful in the future,” Mrs. Simpson Miller said.

But elsewhere Sunday, PNP Vice President, Peter Phillips, was busy making known his intention to bid for the presidency of the party, which has remained somewhat divided since he lost to Mrs. Simpson Miller in an extremely heated party election in 2006. The PNP subsequently lost the reins of power to the Bruce Golding lead Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) by the narrowest of margins.
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The 2008 Fruta/Oasis Purified Water Men’s Basketball Development League (MBDL) got underway at the Montego Bay Cricket Club court last Saturday with one game. Last season’s semi-finalist Central Flames (Lucea) went to battle with Sav-La-Mar J-Hawks, formerly Westland Wildcats. J-Hawks were adopted by the Sav-La-Mar Hawks whom actually participates in the Men’s BBall Championship or Division 1. Neither teams struggled to find offensive rhythm early on, and with Flames’ Dorman brothers being assertive they quickly claimed an 8-3 lead. However, J-Hawks’ and Mannings schoolboy Richard Chambers kept his team close just in time to even up the scoring 16-16 before the end of the first term.
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Soul4Soul is a group representing western Jamaica both to the international audience and our local market. Performing to large audiences from all over the world each night in any of our island’s resort, they have on numerous occasions performed for locals in corporate, street squares and cultural events. They have graced stages in almost every parish always representing western Jamaica well.

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A 48 year-old woman succumbed to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident in the vicinity of Mosquito Cove, Hanover early Friday morning, plunging her family and friends into deep mourning. Dead is Salomie Samuels of Red Ground, Negril. Mrs. Samuels who was on her way to receive treatment for a persistent kidney problem was among two others travelling to Montego Bay when, upon reaching an intersection at Mosquito Cove, the motorcar that was transporting her was crashed into by another. Read the rest of this entry »

Three stalwarts of the People’s National Party (PNP) Women’s Movement will be honoured at its 35th Annual Conference slated for the Manning’s School come Sunday.
The three hail from Westmoreland, Hanover and St. James respectively .

Themed ‘Celebrating Our Heritage, Honouring Our Women,’ the conference will see Portia SimpsonMiller, the party’s president delivering the keynote address at the 3:00 pm public session.
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Just over two years after former Cabinet Minister and member of parliament for Central Westmoreland (PNP) Dr Karl Blythe turned his back on representational politics, it appears that the colourful comrade is on his way back to representational politics.

Addressing a People’s National Party (PNP) divisional conference in the constituency of West Central St James earlier this week, Blythe, a seasoned political campaigner, raised many eyebrows when he told the gathering that he would be “overjoyed” to represent the constituency.
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