Jamaica has hit a grim milestone of 500-plus deaths from COVID-19 after the country recorded 13 deaths on Tuesday, bringing the total to a staggering 507 with another 57 deaths under investigation. Another 821 persons also tested positive for...

Behind each COVID-19 death reported by the Ministry of Health and Wellness is a grieving family who has been robbed of a loved-one and a community that has been made poorer for the loss. Jamaica on Tuesday crossed the 500 death mark after...

Twenty-five-year-old Tashi Belle shared an unbreakable bond with her mother, Lorna Bailey. However, COVID-19 took away her 62-year-old mother seven months ago. Bailey was living in Florida, United States, for seven years after migrating form...

Neville Sinclair, father of Nevia Sinclair, the St Elizabeth woman who was murdered by her jealous ex-boyfriend last year, says he is now looking for a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty, after the man pleaded guilty in court on...

Okeitha Lettman shared a smile with her younger sister just moments before she was killed, metres from her gate, in a drive-by shooting in Southside, Kingston. Lettman, 52, a clothes vendor, has been described by her siblings as fun-loving. "How.....

At a time when many children are thinking of becoming attorneys, doctors and engineers, 10-year-old Jordan Murray is bent on becoming a cattle farmer. When THE STAR caught up with Jordan in Hayfield district, St Catherine, he was observed busily....

Carefully, beekeeper Julian Spence lifted the lid off one of his 25 hives to introduce THE STAR team to his apiary. Spence's role as a beekeeper is to prepare bees and equipment for pollination activities, clean and construct hives, raise and...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, says that as of next Monday, March 22, Jamaicans who are 75 years and older will be able to set appointments to receive the coronavirus vaccine, by calling the 888-ONE-LOVE telephone number. "We start...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS), is reporting that an inmate from the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre has died from complications associated with the COVID-19 virus. The DCS says the inmate who was admitted at the Spanish...

LONDON (AP) -- The European Union's drug regulatory agency said Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't increase the overall incidence of blood clots and that the benefits of using it outweigh the possible risks, paving the...

Port Au Prince, Haiti (CMC) -- President of Haiti Jovenel Moise has declared a state of emergency in several areas of the country in an effort to stem the upsurge in crime. A decree adopted by the Council of Ministers said: "...

Three men were arrested during an ongoing operation in Woodside, Clarendon this morning. Police reports are that two illegal firearms with several rounds of ammunition were confiscated during the operation. A motor vehicle was also seized. We want....

Police are now investiagting a crime scene at a yard in Mount Ogle in St Andrew, where the body of a man was discovered in what appeared to be a shallow grave. Curious residents tried to get a peek as crime scene investigators exhumed the body. The....

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor, Derron Wood, of the Fairy Hill division in Eastern Portland has died. Wood reportedly passed away at the University Hospital of the West Indies this morning, after he was admitted late Wednesday evening....

A 19-year-old is among two men who were arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition during an anti-gang operation by the police in St Thomas. Charged are 19-year-old Leroy Farquharson, otherwise called 'Sloonie...

Doses of the Johnson and Johsnon (J&J) vaccine under the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, are expected to be delivered to most Caribbean countries by July.  Speaking during The Pan American Health Organization's COVID-...

LONDON (AP) -- The world awaits the results Thursday of an initial European investigation into whether AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine is linked to blood clots reported in a small number of people who received the shot. Concerns over the...

Fort-De-France, Martinique (CMC) - The Government of Martinique has suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, following the lead of France and several other countries that have taken the step after some people who got the jab...

Nearly 400 Jamaicans are currenty hospitalised as a result of COVID-19, as some 398 patients have been reported in hospitals across the island, with 28 moderately ill and 34 critical. Meanwhile, total confirmed cases have surpassed the 33,000 mark.....

An alleged robber, who is also believed to be a rapist, was left nursing a stab wound after a retired United States army veteran fought him off during an early morning invasion of her home in Portland on Monday. According to a police report, the.....