As police continue to intensify operations across the island to kick-start the New Year, three firearms and several rounds of ammunition have so far been seized. Police reports are that in the first incident, about 12:01 a.m. on January 1, cops...

LONDON (AP) -- British hospitals around the country face a perilous situation in January, medical workers warned Friday amid surging coronavirus infections blamed on a new virus variant. Authorities pressed to reactivate field hospitals...

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC)-- The Government of Barbados on Thursday imposed a curfew for the entire island starting at midnight until January 14, in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19. The announcement was made on Thursday by Prime...

Of the 614 samples tested in Jamaica in the last 24 hours, 88 have tested positive for COVID-19, increasing Jamaica's total confirmed cases to 12,915 with 1,923 being active. Of the new cases, 48 are males and 40 are females, with ages ranging...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams, has confirmed that 129 schools have been approved for face-to-face teaching and learning to start the new school term on January 4. The schools have been allowed a two week period from....

The Government of Jamaica has extended the ban on flights from the United Kingdom until January 31, 2021. The travel ban was originally scheduled to end on January 4. The measure is aimed at preventing the transmission of the new COVID-19 strain...

Reggae Boyz defender Oniel Fisher is now searching for a new club after DC United chose not to offer him a new contract for the 2021 Major League Soccer (MLS) season. The team has also declined their 2021 options on Mohammed Abu, Earl Edwards Jr.....

Contentious dancehall artiste LA Lewis is threatening to file a J$35-million lawsuit against Accompong Maroons head, Colonel Ferron Williams, if he does not apologise for tarnishing his character. "That man needs to apologise to me and I am...

Fifty-two year old Carlene Sterling was looking forward to celebrating the Christmas holidays with her daughter as they have done for years. This, however, was not possible as her daughter, 14-year-old Tyesha 'Avesha' Bryan, went missing last...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP): Representatives for football superstar Neymar are trying to distance him from claims he has flouted pandemic warnings with a multiday New Year's bash at or near his home in Brazil while on break from his French club team......

What was intended to be a romantic holiday getaway for an American couple, Izzy and Muawea Rawshdeh, quickly turned sour after Izzy was allegedly attacked and injured by another female visitor at a resort on Jamaica's south coast. Izzy, 32, and......

Peta-Gaye Martin, a mother of six, has been house-hopping with her children for the past seven months after a fire damaged their house on Hanover Street, downtown Kingston, in May. Martin, who has been struggling to reconstruct a place of her own....

Linnette Shackleford says she was able to pay her bills on time and make ends meets from the meagre wages she earned doing domestic work. However, that changed shortly after COVID-19 hit local shores. The senior citizen, who suffers from type 2....

The drastic increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Westmoreland has overrun the isolation capacity at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital. Dreading the possibility of increased cases with nowhere to house patients, the Government has clamped down......

Commercial sex workers in Montego Bay say they have been left penniless over the entire Christmas holidays due to COVID-19 restrictions. The disgruntled women told THE STAR that 2020 has been their worst year. "Wi a smaddy too, an wi haffi voice.....

On September 22, this newspaper published a story headlined 'Mother wants her son to hear '. In that article, Lexcine Witter spoke about her desire to have her two-year-old son, Leandre Forbes, travel to the United States of America for ear...

GENEVA (AP)-- The World Health Organization says it has cleared the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, meaning poorer countries may soon get access to the shot already available in Europe and North America. Every country...

BEIJING (AP) -- China authorised its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use Thursday, adding another shot that could see wide use in poorer countries as the virus surges back around the globe. The Sinopharm vaccine had already been...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) --The race to vaccinate millions of Americans is off to a slower, messier start than public health officials and leaders of the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed had expected. Overworked, underfunded...

Romeo Queensborough, the 19-year-old who stabbed his father to death at their home in Browns Hall, St. Catherine on Sunday, December 27,  has been charged with murder. Police reports are that Romeo turned himself in to the police and has been...