With the third wave of COVID-19 continuing its rampage across the country, leaving many people severely sick or dead, and disrupting social and economic life, the nation's church leaders have yet again decided to petition God for deliverance....

(AP) - Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January, in addition to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The highly contagious delta variant of the...

Jamaica on Monday recorded 729 new COVID-19 cases from 1,600 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 68,131 with 17,881 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 47.6%. Of the new cases, 436...

(AP) - A potential HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson did not provide protection against the virus in a mid-stage study, the drugmaker said Tuesday. J&J plans to end that study, which involved young women in sub-Saharan Africa....

The Government is on a drive to provide farming lands to young Jamaicans as part of efforts to encourage them to engage in farming, and also to put unused lands into food production. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries says it has reserved 20....

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry or Economic Growth and Job Creation, Everald Warmington, says more than $168 million will be spent to improve infrastructure in Central Manchester. The Minister said $60 million will be spent on...

Simone Morgan-Lindo STAR Writer A blanket of gloom hangs over Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine, following the murder of a promising teenager on Monday morning. The body of 15-year-old Kevin McKenzie, affectionately called 'KJ', was...

CARL GILCHRIST STAR Writer A guidance counsellor at the Muirhouse Primary and Junior High School in St Ann, who died last Saturday, is being described by her peers as a hard-working professional. Dahlia Minto, 50, who spent 20 years at the......

SHANEL LEMMIE STAR Writer St Catherine teen Jade Hammond is aiming to end gender-based violence and empower women and girls through her club, H.E.R (Hegemonic Empower Resilience) Inc. The 16-year-old student of St Hugh's High School for Girls.....

SIMONE MORGAN-LINDO STAR Writer Good Samaritan security guard Junior Song Hue, who was recently given a $50,000 cash gift by a man he assisted, said he has given away almost half of his reward. Song Hue's acts of kindness was featured in THE...

A manhunt is underway in the Kingston Eastern Division, following the escape of three prisoners from the Port Royal lock-Up this morning. Police reoprts that the men were discovered missing during a check at the lock-up about 4:...

A security guard who was charged with murder for the shooting death of a woman, following a quarrel over garbage disposal in Carlton Mountain, near Claremont, St Ann on March 2, is dead.  Leroy Martin, otherwise called 'Biggy,...

At least four prisoners are now at large following a jailbreak at the Port Royal Police Station in Kingston. The police's Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), confirmed that the incident occured between last night and this...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded 739 new COVID-19 cases from 1,508 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 67,402 with 17,288 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 54.0%. Of the new cases, 422...

BEIJING (AP) -- China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game industry as Chinese regulators continue cracking down on the technology sector. Minors in China...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union plans to recommend that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infection levels there, EU diplomats said Monday. A decision to remove the U.S. from a...

A shipment of bulk oxygen arrived in Jamaica this morning as the country's health sector grapples with increased COVID-19 cases and hospitalisation. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton disclosed in a tweet this morning that...

Kaden Beckford is not the typical eight-year-old. Instead of playing with toys, his leisure time is spent building things -- not using building blocks, but using tools like a hammer and his favourite; a drill. In an interview at their home in...

At the sight of their owner Leon Golding entering the goat shed, the herd started bleating in harmony. They ran into his arms in loving caress, as he prepared to tend to their daily needs. Golding, whose animals are housed in the Corporate Area.....