Mark* is considering himself blessed after he narrowly escaped being shot in an incident that claimed the lives of three men on Howard Avenue, also known as Mongoose Town, St Andrew, on Sunday. "Me stand up with me friend dem and me just see the....

Nineteen-year-old YouTuber Deandra Wallace is on a personal mission to help young girls avoid becoming teenage mothers. The former York Castle High student got pregnant at the tender age of 14. "Abstinence still makes sense! And yes, a child is a....

A Jamaican woman facing murder charges in The Bahamas appeared in court yesterday. Nadisha Beckford, 33, has been charged in the death of Lakeisha Mackey on February 20. Beckford was not required to enter a plea. Her bail was denied and she was.....

Taxi operators who ply the Waltham Park to downtown Kingston route and cops from Hunts Bay Police Station joined forces yesterday to repair a damaged roadway in a section of Waltham Park Road. Huge potholes filled with water and rubbish that...

Pan chicken operators within the Corporate Area have welcomed a proposal put forward by Prime Minister Andrew Holness which could see them having their food orders delivered to their customers. The livelihoods of street vendors who do their...

At 7 p.m., the bulk of Susie Whyte's customers would be home from work and would begin pouring into her Diamond HQ bar on Waltham Park Road for a drink. But at that time yesterday, her establishment was closed to the public due to the new COVID-....

Months after they suffered tremendous losses from heavy floodwaters, residents of Shooters Hill in Bull Bay, St Andrew, say that their woes continue. Norman 'Foodie' Grant, 50, who lost his two-bedroom dwelling to a landslide in late October,...

President of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) David Wan is commending the government's decision to implement strict work-from-home orders for public sector workers. Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement on Sunday at a media......

The Government has set a target to vaccinate 65 per cent of the population by March 31, 2022. The vaccination process is slated to be rolled out in three phases, following the arrival of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines this week. Permanent...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago's airport in late January, and Chile's president, Sebastian Pinera, was beaming. "Today," he said, "is a day...

BOSTON (AP) -- Six Dr. Seuss books -- including "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and "If I Ran the Zoo" -- will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that...

Forty-year-old Nadeen Geddes was today sentenced to 20 years in prison, for the murder of her 36-year-old sister Tamara Geddes, who was shot and killed in her room at Reserve district, Trelawny on June 19, 2020. Nadeen Geddes, who had pleaded...

The police officer who was caught in a compromising positon in a viral video has been taken off duty. In the video making the rounds on social media, the cop who was wearing his uniform, was recorded participating in a sexual act in the back...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The Caribbean is hunting for visitors and vaccines to jump-start the stalled economy in one of the world's most tourism-dependent regions. Clear waters and warm sand attracted a record 31.5 million tourists...

A 16-year-old female from Kingston and St Andrew is among seven of the latest Jamaicans to have died from from COVID-19 pushing the death tally to 432. The other deceased are: - An 83-year-old male from Manchester - An 84-year- old male from KSA -.....

Reggae legend Bunny Wailer had died. The 73-year-old passed away minutes to eight this morning at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, his manager Maxine Stowe confirmed to The STAR. "The family will be putting together a release to...

A double tragedy has struck the community of Montpelier in Sandy Bay, Hanover, after a popular steel worker was discovered burnt to death inside his motor car yesterday, days after his babymother died after giving birth. Donald Oliver Mullings,......

A woman is now counting her blessings after she narrowly escaped being raped at the Orchard Beach in Hopewell, Hanover. The woman stated that last Saturday about 4 p.m., she had just finished jogging and was about to take a swim, when she heard......

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton announced yesterday that the first doses of the much-anticipated AstraZeneca COVID vaccine will arrive in the island this month. "Some 14,400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will be delivered on or before March....

Newly-elected chief of the Accompong Town Maroons, Richard Currie, says that he is off the menu for the lusting and drooling women on social media, who see him as a sex symbol. "I do have a significant other and I am a private person so I try to....