ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - The Antigua government has announced weekly lotteries in an effort to encourage residents to take up about 6,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine before they expire on June 30. Minister of Information...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says the Government is preparing for the full resumption of face-to-face education in the new school year in September.

Kimoy Rose, the wife of pastor Jason Rose who was charged with the rape of a 15-year old girl on Wednesday, has been charged with taking steps to pervert the course of justice. The police say she is also facing other charges under the Child Care...

Jamaica on Friday recorded six COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 996. Four of the deceased were previously under investigation, two women aged 75 and 60, and two men aged 92 and 61 all from the parish of St James. The other deceased are.....

DALLAS (AP) -- The airline industry's recovery from the pandemic passed a milestone as more than 2 million people streamed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on Friday for the first time since early March 2020. The Transportation...

The St. Andrew South police say they are seeking the public's assistance in identifying the body of an unidentified man, discovered along Payne Avenue in Kingston 11 on Friday, June 11. The body is of a dark complexion, medium build and is...

An illegal cooking gas distribution site was uncovered in Portmore, St Catherine on Friday, by detectives assigned to the Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigations Branch (CTOC). Reports are that detectives swooped down on an area near......

Garnet Edmondson, interim operations manager at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), has bemoaned the news that four garbage collectors were robbed on Clieveden Close in Kingston 6 yesterday afternoon. A video was uploaded to...

The Westmoreland police have charged a manager at Rick's Cafe with breaches of the Spirit Licence Act and the Municipal Corporation Act. In a release yesterday afternoon, the police said the manager, Conroy Barrett, was in charge of Rick's Cafe......

Like anyone celebrating a birthday, Arnett Gardens resident Ramon Stewart was grateful and ecstatic to see another year above ground. Unfortunately, his celebration was cut short as he died in a hail of bullets just hours after he rang in his...

Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks yesterday granted bail to a woman whose disability made it challenging for her to be housed in lock-up. The woman, Anoula Barnes, is on two sets of drug-related charges. She is before the court for the offences......

A man was ordered to pay $50,000 to his babymother for wounding her when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Dwayne Miller entered a guilty plea for unlawful wounding. The court heard that on May 28, at 7:45 a.m.,......

The family of 26-year-old Romario Manning is breathing a sigh of relief after their pleas for help in getting him transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU) were answered on Tuesday night. The family's plight was highlighted in THE STAR that day.....

With 75 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Jamaica occurring among persons 60 years and over, the Government is offering an incentive of $10,000 to seniors who get inoculated against the novel coronavirus. THE WEEKEND STAR asked some seniors in the...

A man who pleaded guilty to obtaining passports by fraud said he committed the offences because he was unable to gain travel privileges to England using his given name. Stokely Edwards pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining a passport by...

From a very tender age, Jabari Wellington was heralded as a great hope for many persons living in Capture, a tough section of Waterhouse, St Andrew. But like most of his peers, the former Wolmer's Boys' student had to hurdle a number of obstacles.....

Travelling to Ness Castle, St Thomas, is not an easy task. The roads leading into the west St Thomas community are so bad, they can cause nausea at any time. With meteorologists predicting an active hurricane season, residents are pleading with....

Away from the bustling metropolitan life of the Corporate Area, peace and tranquillity await residents in the valleys of the Blue Mountains. The lush landscape and fertile land provide great opportunity for residents to till the soil, and Delano....

A 23-year-old Portland pastor has been charged with rape by detectives assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA). Police reports are that Jamar Harrison of a John's Town Road, Port Antonio address...

Two men have been charged under the Dangerous Drugs Act, following the seizure of approximately 241 ganja plants, on Atlantis Crescent, Bogue Village, St. James on Wednesday. Charged with illegal possession of ganja, cultivating ganja and dealing......