Last year over 300 persons lost their lives as a result of traffic accidents across the country. In Westmoreland, the number was 24 dead from twenty-five such occurrences. So far this year there has been at least five major accidents and four fatalities.

The latest fatality is that of 48 year-old Paul Scott, resident of Red Ground district in the parish. Scott died when the motor cycle he was driving collided with an oncoming vehicle along the Namphriel Main Road in Negril on Saturday.

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LITTLE LONDON, Westmoreland

Westmoreland Police Youth Club (WPYC) extended their lead in Zone B of the Westmoreland Football Association’s Captain’s Bakery Major League after edging Grotto 2-1 at the Bay Road Sports Complex on Monday afternoon.

The win for WPYC over Grotto was the first for the leaders this season after the teams played to a draw in the first round but took the winners to 13 points, four clear of mid-season champions Paul Island.

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A 22 year-old man who is a resident of the new Porto Bello housing scheme in Montego Bay and is said to be a frequent patron of a popular exotic night club located along Gloucester Avenue also in the second city, was left in serious pain and had to be rushed to a private doctor on Tuesday afternoon after it was reported that he took a number of tablets meant to enlarge his penis but ended up only enhancing his nature.

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A number of concerned farmers, who reside in the small, hilly community of Moreland, located in the parish of Westmoreland, on Tuesday morning, gathered at the home of one of their neighbours to offer their sympathies following the disappearance and slaughtering of his donkey ‘Sam’.

The 65 year-old farmer, a Mr. Grey, related a sad story to this reporter about his dear, departed animal (Sam) which had been the bedrock of his working life since for some 10 years. According to him, on Friday last, he was at his two apartment board dwelling house when he was approached by two men who offered to purchase the animal at a cost of $12,000.

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Miss Tourism Queen Jamaica is set to be staged here on Valentine’s Day at the Kool Runnings Waterpark in Negril. This competition, although unfamiliar to most Jamaicans, has actually been in existence since 1949.

The first world final competition of this competition was staged in Sri Lanka and later in USA, Russia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Singapore, as well as many other countries. It was last staged in China with participants from 108 countries.

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WASHINGTON, USA (AP) – Barack Obama became the 44th US president yesterday, shattering American racial barriers as the first black leader of the nation he promised to free from the grip of its profound economic troubles and steer away from wars in two distant lands.

Obama assumed power over a country longing for change after former President George W Bush’s eight divisive years in the White House, an era that witnessed the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the beginning of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and an economic collapse not seen since the 1930s Great Depression.

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Armed with numerous police warnings and tips on how to avoid being robbed particularly during this holiday season, some taxi operators in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, for the most part, are happy to have made it this far without a single major incident. However, the same cannot be said of a few who have had their lives threatened been robbed, beaten and their cars stolen.

The Western Mirror was told women are being used as sidekicks or as point persons in most of these alleged robbery attempts, in which at least two taxi drivers were said to have been taken away by knife wielding, gun pointing women.

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The police in Westmoreland recently responded to a call of disturbance in Sheffield in the parish. On their arrival however, all they found was an elderly man in need of some ‘action’ from his ‘unwilling’ wife.

According to Detective Corporal Gregory McDyess of the Area One Police, residents of the community reported of hearing strange sounds at the house of the elderly couple.

On arrival of the police team, an obviously ‘heated’ 70-year-old man simply declared, “Is not a fight eno, is jus beg mi a beg mi wife some sex.”

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The Mannings School, one of the most noted names in local track and field will not compete in this year’s track and field season due to lack of funding.

Authorities at Mannings – three time national Girls Champions for 1965, 1966 and 1969 – told the Observer West of the “difficult decision” to withdraw on Tuesday, noting that they hoped to be back on a firmer foundation as of next year.

“We are working on strengthening the foundation and we are hoping that a fund that was started some time ago by the past students will be increased so we can resume track and field next year,” said Principal Gloria Wagstaff, herself a past student who represented the school in netball in the 1960s.

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Westmoreland Police Youth Club (WPYC) created some space at the top of Zone B in the Captain’s Bakery Westmoreland Football Association’s Major League after beating Perry Strikers 3-1 in a return- round game at Prospect on Monday afternoon.

Everette Rodney scored twice in the first half to help WPYC to their second win over Perry Strikers this seasons after taking the first round game 2-0 in November.

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