The St Andrew South police have seized one Beretta Nano 9mm pistol with a magazine containing nine 9mm cartridges during a raid on Largie Road in Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11 on Saturday. Reports from the Olympic Gardens police are that about 4:40.....

The police are reporting that no one received gunshot wounds in an accident that claimed the lives of two, and injured six others, along the Raymond main road in Lionel Town, Clarendon on Saturday night. The deceased have been identified as 21-year....

CARBIS BAY, England (AP) -- Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations staked their claim Sunday to leading the world out of the coronavirus pandemic and crisis, pledging more than 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations,...

A 68-year-old woman from St Catherine is the latest Jamaican to die as a result of COVID-19, moving the death tally to 997. Meanwhile, of the 1,316 samples tested on Saturday, 45 returned positive results, increasing total confirmed cases to 49,227....

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) -- Guyana's Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony says the Government is still considering introducing a COVID-19 travel certificate, as the country continues to work towards curbing transmission of the deadly virus...

Several residents took to the streets of Hayes in Clarendon this morning, to protest what they haved called the indiscriminate police shooting of a car transporting children in the community on Saturday night. The driver, 20-year-old Kevaughn...

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...