Jamaica Star
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:28:29 -0500Government addressing 'security vulnerability' on JAMCOVID app
The Ministry of National Security says it has rectified a security vulnerability associated with the file storage service on the JAMCOVID-19 application, that was discovered on Tuesday. The Ministry says at present, there is no evidence to suggest.....
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:48:49 -0500Sign on to the National Registry of Entertainment Practitioners encourages Grange
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, is encouraging all members of the entertainment fraternity to sign on to the National Registry of Entertainment Practitioners (e-Registry). The e-Registry is a single repository......
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:10:37 -0500Japan starts COVID-19 vaccinations with eye on Olympics
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan launched its coronavirus vaccination campaign Wednesday, months after other major economies started giving shots and amid questions about whether the drive would would reach enough people quickly enough to save a Summer...
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:00:10 -0500Health Ministry to boost COVID vaccine access through private sector partnership
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has partnered with private-sector stakeholders to accelerate the procurement and administration of COVID-19 vaccination for Jamaica. This is being facilitated under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the...
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:27:26 -0500Cops seize illegal guns and ammunition in Kingston, five in custody
Three separate operations in Kingston over a 24-hour period, resulted in the seizure of three firearms and thirty-two assorted rounds of ammunition, by the a team of officers assigned to the St. Andrew Central Police Division. Five persons,...
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:11:27 -0500Jamaica surpasses 20,000 confirmed COVID cases
Jamaica has surpassed 20,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, as of the 1,046 samples tested on Tuesday, 243 returned positive results, increasing Jamaica's total cases to 20,016 with 6,696 being active. Of the new cases, 110 are males and 129 are...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:02:58 -0500Bizarre double murder rocks Portmore - Former national athlete, young woman found dead in open lot
Detectives from the Major Investigation Division are continuing their probe into the murder of two persons early yesterday morning in Portmore, St Catherine. The bodies of the deceased, who were identified as 19-year-old Raheima Edwards, and 38-....
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:02:54 -0500‘Quiet disciplinarian’ Adolphus Powell hits 100
For his 100th birthday celebration yesterday, Adolphus Powell sipped on a glass of Baileys Rum Cream and had a viral party with his loved ones overseas. His plans to celebrate with his eight children at his home in Oakland Crescent off Waltham......
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:02:47 -0500Family to offer reward for info on missing fisherman
The family of missing Portland fisherman Lendford 'Cushy' Noyan is planning to offer a reward of J$100,000 to anyone with credible information about his whereabouts. Noyan, 26, was reported missing on February 6. Reports are that Noyan and three....
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:02:57 -0500Renewed concern for inmates as COVID cases surge
Human rights group Stand Up for Jamaica (SUFJ) is expressing concern about the resurgence of COVID-19 in the island's correctional facilities. The entity said the discovery of 36 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the inmate and staff population.....
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:02:51 -0500Accused in church killing remanded
One of the attorneys representing two of the accused in the February 2 murder of Andrea Lowe-Garwood expressed concerns about the proceedings of their first court appearance yesterday. Attorneys Martyn Thomas and Sewayne Phillips represented...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:02:44 -0500Widower finds love in making craft
After losing his common-law wife Arlene Thompson to cancer in 2018, Ralston Myles started viewing life in a different light. The 73-year-old revealed that he was often consumed by stress, had thoughts of giving up on life, and was no longer...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:25:32 -0500Fired! JetBlue sends Kalina Collier packing
Kalina Collier, the American, who reported that she was being held hostage in Jamaica after testing positive for COVID-19, has been fired from her job. "After an investigation, the crewmember in question is no longer with JetBlue,...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:45:23 -0500U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for 6 whose boat overturned off Florida
FORT PIERCE, Florida (AP) -- The United States Coast Guard has suspended the search for six people who were reported as missing after their boat capsized off of Florida's Atlantic coast. "The decision to suspend a search-and-rescue...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:01:29 -0500Trinidad police in special units to start wearing body cams
Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) - Cops in special units within the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) will be equipped with body cameras Minister of National Security, Stuart Young, said on Monday. It was also announced that a full-scale...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:43:24 -0500More students to get tablets through diaspora donation
A drive by Jamaica's Consul General to New York, Allison Wilson, in support of the 'One Laptop or Tablet Per Child' initiative, will result in 1,200 students receiving tablet computers donated by persons in the diaspora. The effort is...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:24:17 -0500Man held for chopping Clarendon woman to death
The man suspected of chopping a Clarendon woman to death in Crooked River, in the parish on Monday, is now in police custody. Police say the suspect was picked up a short while ago in Kingston by the St. Andrew Central police. Dead is 61-year-old.....
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:47:02 -0500JetBlue suspends Kalina Collier
JetBlue Airways, the employer of American Kalina Collier, who reported that she was being held hostage in Jamaica after testing positive for COVID-19, says Collier has been suspended as they continue to investigate her actions. In an updated...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:31:33 -0500Men drop bag with sniper rifle in Westmoreland, flee cops
The Savanna-la-Mar police in Westmoreland have seized a sniper rifle and several rounds of ammunition in Llandilo Phase 1 in the parish. Reports are that about 8:10 p.m. on Monday, lawmen were on patrol along the main road in the community when two....
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:02:44 -0500Police searching for man who chopped woman to death in Clarendon
The Chapelton police in Clarendon are now searching for a man they suspect of inflicting fatal chop wounds to a 61-year-old woman in McDonald district in Crooked River, in the parish on Monday evening. Dead is Sharon Cole, a caregiver of the same.....