After revealing the dire circumstances of her life in THE WEEKEND STAR publication on January 22, Sierra Leone national Etta Isatu Findlay will be going home. After her story was published, she was contacted by personnel from the consulate of the....

The police's Corporate Communications Unit has confirmed that a suspect has been held in relation to the January 21 murder of 43-year-old Canadian Latoya Alcindor, whose body was found in Runaway Bay, St Ann. The suspect was held by police in...

When Marrisa Reid visited the THE STAR offices on Tuesday, her face told a tale of despair and stress. She tried hard to hold back tears as she spoke about her only daughter Theresa Smith, who has been missing since March 23, 2020. She recalled.....

Joan Johnson has always been an independent woman working tirelessly to provide for her family and being active around her home. However, all of that changed three years ago when she fell from her bed and shattered her kneecap. She hasn't been......

The roads leading into Hayfield, St Thomas, are almost single lane-wide, and the rocky ride could also have you constantly biting your tongue. However, all of that is forgotten upon entering the quiet community that has some of Jamaica's most...

The father of Lorenzo Thomas, who was murdered in his Cassava Piece home on June 5, 2018, testified that he watched helplessly as his offspring was shot multiple times in the head. Dantay Brooks, son of dancehall star Mavado, and Andre Hinds were....

Deep in concentration, Jamaican-born Garfield Williams tapped his axel around the wet clay sitting on his tabletop wheel. Eager to complete this ceramic candle holder, he smiled as he spoke of his passion for sculpting. He learnt sculpting and......

Former colleagues of Corporal Courtney Cassell, who was buried last Saturday, are hailing him as hard-working and professional, among other accolades. Cassell, 49, who died a week before Christmas, was stationed at the Ocho Rios Police Station......

While attending Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town, dancehall artiste Cashtro Troy would often gather his friends during lunchtime and beat the desks to create rhythms and perform some of the popular dancehall hits. Over time, he managed....

(AP) - Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work -- though not quite as well -- against new mutated strains of the virus...

(CMC) - Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, says that the Region of the Americas, including the Caribbean, has surpassed one million deaths from COVID-19, stating that "the weight of this loss is...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green, has extended an invitation to private-sector stakeholders to partner with the Government to supply farmers with access to essential machinery and equipment. He noted that while the Ministry has...

An unbearable stench on lower Harbour Street in Port Antonio, has stalled some  business operations along that strip, forcing police to redirect vehicular traffic to Blake Street. Health officials have said that the foul stench is as a...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A warning from a well-known judge in Haiti crackled recently over the radio: "Don't let them arrest you, because you don't know when you will be released from prison." Haiti's justice...

Tokyo, Japan (AP) -- More than 90 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be produced in Japan by a Japanese pharmaceutical company through a licensing agreement. It will cover three quarters of the supply the British-Swedish...

Several proposals have been submitted to the Government by stakeholders in the entertainment industry, for the possible resumption of the entertainment sector, and according to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the proposals will be reviewed in short....

Two more Jamaicans have died from COVID-19, pushing the death tally to 344. The deceased are: a 65-year-old male from St Catherine, and a 66-year-old male from St. Ann Meanwhile, of the 1,579 samples tested in the last 24 hours, 194 returned...

Four years ago, Glendon Thomas lost a daughter to violence; on Monday night he lost two more children to bullets. Jenell Thomas, 24, and Omar Jarrett, 29, otherwise called 'Brick Back', both of Penn Street in Jones Town, Kingston, were cut down......

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday told Parliament that the police had a suspect in custody in connection with one of the attacks on homeless men across the Corporate Area on Sunday. "They (police) do have a suspect, with strong evidence, in....

A broken-down Toyota Corolla motor car stationed on the side of Caymanas Road in Waterford, Portmore, is where Leroy 'Papa Dadaz' Grant, 65, has been living for more than a year. After losing his job as a gas station pump attendant, Grant fell......