The Government has allocated another $300 million for irrigation wells in Parnassus, Clarendon to benefit farmers. The disclosure was made by Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett while closing the 2021/22 Sectoral Debate in the House of...

The Government is still on track to provide 70,000 affordable housing solutions for Jamaicans within the next five years. This assurance comes from Minister of Tourism and Leader of Government Business in the House of Representatives, Edmund...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be placing sickle cell coordinators at public health facilities across Jamaica who will be charged with providing support for paediatric patients. National Coordinator for the Sickle Cell Programme at the...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- A Tennessee doctor has been reprimanded for removing five doses of the coronavirus vaccine without authorisation and giving them to family and a friend, officials said. Claude F. Varner Jr., who had volunteered to...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union is recommending that its 27 member countries start lifting restrictions on tourists from the United States. EU members agreed Wednesday to add the US to the list of countries for which they should gradually...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - The St.Kitts-Nevis government has declared a state of emergency as the twin-island Federation grapples with an increase in the number of coronavirus (COVOD-19) cases in decent days. A government statement said...

An American tourist who ran off in Jamaica and was found living in Waterhouse, St Andrew, has been ordered deported. The man, Tony Willis, admitted in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday that he came to the country on a cruise ship.....

A heartless, bloodthirsty gunman murdered a woman as she stood with her 10-year-old son on Third Street in Trench Town, Kingston 12, yesterday. At least 20 spent shells were found at the scene of the horrific killing -- the third in two days --......

A private security officer was killed yesterday after leaving church where he had gone to pray. Jermaine Duffus, 42, who was employed by Woody's Food Court in Portmore, was shot and killed by unknown assailants on Caymanas Drive at 1:45 p.m....

A man was remanded in custody yesterday after his apology for injuring a senior policeman was refused. Leo Mills, who used a Malta bottle to knock an inspector of police unconscious in Half-Way Tree, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding when he...

A chicken farmer was robbed of his produce on Monday by a man pretending to be a legitimate buyer. Police reports indicate that the farmer was at his home in Clarendon when a man came to his house asking to purchase chicken, paying by cash. The.....

A St Mary mother who recently buried her sister said the intervening hands of God prevented lives from being lost in a two-vehicle crash in Temple Hall, St Andrew that left eight persons injured yesterday. The frightening experience left a...

Social media personality Ivany Wright was yesterday given suspended sentences on larceny charges when she appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Wright pleaded guilty to two counts of larceny by trick. The court heard that on the...

A St Ann woman whose four-year-old child suffered brain damage as a result of a motor vehicle accident in St Mary is appealing for help to access the necessary treatment to help her live a normal life. Rennae Edwards, of Priory, told THE STAR...

Prior to July 2018, Rejeen Morrison lived a normal life and was only ever admitted to a medical facility when she was giving birth to her now eight-year-old daughter. But now she is battling a series of ailments including lupus, steroid-induced.....

A man who broke into a car and stole $600,000 was yesterday given a suspended sentence when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Jermaine Ashley pleaded guilty last week to malicious destruction of property and simple larceny.....

Justine Hewitt, 28, is seeking assistance from the public to save her one-year-old son Jaydon Burrell, who was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma cancer in October. The mother of two, who resides in Rollington Town, Kingston, told THE STAR...

A probe is underway into a break-in at the tax collectorate in Morant Bay, St Thomas. It has not yet been ascertained what was stolen. The break-in was discovered by staff members who turned up for duties this morning. It is believed that the...

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC - Grenada on Tuesday became the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to launch a scheme aimed at getting nationals to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Health authorities have launched "a game of...

The United States death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and look forward to summer. The number of......