A senior citizen was found dead, apparently as a result of suffocation, after robbers used duct tape to cover his eyes, nose and mouth at his home in Westmoreland. Residents of Barneyside have been left in shock at the death of Gladstone 'Banny'.....

A 16-year-old boy was yesterday hailed as a hero after he pulled three persons from a wrecked vehicle that had crashed into a wall at the intersection of North Street and South Camp Road in Kingston. The accident, that occurred shortly after 4 p....

Tears welled up in Anna-Kaye Santo's eyes and sadness gripped her face as she stared at a portait taken on her wedding day, December 29, 2018. Her husband, Ryan Santo, with whom she spent the last several years, has been cruelly taken from her by.....

On Monday morning when Marvia Allison saw police tape and glimpsed what she believed were bodies in an open lot close to where she lived in Portmore, St Catherine, she called her sister. Little did she know that she would soon be living her...

Nestled in the hills of the Cockpit Country is a settlement known to most in St Elizabeth as Ouickstep. Residents have long wanted development in the remote area, but believe they have been overlooked by the government due to their location. A 68....

A man who left his condition of bail book at the scene of a crime in Exchange, Ocho Rios, St Ann, has been arrested. Charged with housebreaking and larceny is Javier Amos, 24, landscaper of Boham Heights, Exchange, in the parish. Reports from the....

Gonsalves urge Vincentians to take COVID jab Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is encouraging Vincentians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 once vaccines become available. "If they don't want to take it, nobody [is] going [to] force them....

When Roshaun Brown was in the 10th grade at St Jago High School he had already mapped his route to become an automotive technician. The 24-year-old was determined to to follow his dreams, so much so that after leaving St Jago in 2013, he quickly......

TENOSIQUE, Mexico (AP) -- In the first Mexican shelter reached by migrants after trekking through the Guatemalan jungle, some 150 migrants are sleeping in its dormitories and another 150 lay on thin mattresses spread across the floor of its...

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CMC) - The United States Customs and Border Protection agency says officers assigned to the Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport seized over eight pounds...

A woman is now in police custody in connection with the stabbing death of her ex-boyfriend and the father of her child during a domestic dispute yesterday. The police have identified the slain man as Marvin Watson, 36, also known as ‘Spread...

A 27-year-old delivery man has been arrested and charged, after an illegal gun was allegedly found in his waistband. Charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition is Ricardo Burton, of Hanover Street, Kingston. Reports from the Central.....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America needs to get better at dealing with it, experts said as Texas and other states battled winter storms that blew past the worst-case planning of utilities,...

Jamaica on Ash Wednesday recorded another 294 COVID-19 cases, of the 1,042 samples tested, increasing Jamaica's total cases to 20,310 with 6,939 being active. Of the new cases, 141 are males and 153 are females, with ages ranging from 63 days...

Jamaican vocalist and pioneer of toasting, Ewart Beckford, better known to the world as Daddy U-Roy, has died, his partner Marcia Smikle confirmed to The STAR. He passed away at 11:10 last night at the University Hospital of the West Indies (...

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.....

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......

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...

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...

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,...