Prime Minister Andrew Holness last night said that his Government will never again bow to pressures from persons to relax measures that are imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19. Holness, in firing thinly veiled jabs at the entertainment...

A COVID-19 porter at one of the island's hospitals is urging citizens to take greater responsibility to protect themselves from contracting the deadly virus. The porter, who deals strictly with COVID-19 patients, whether confirmed or suspected......

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that rising waters in the community of New Market, St Elizabeth, has once again resulted in the main road leading to Carmel, Westmoreland, being impassable. The Siloah-Windsor Bridge along the...

Garnett Poyser, a dasheen farmer who resides in Elderslie district, St Elizabeth, is among several farmers affected by the recent flooding and landslides resulting from the passing of Tropical Storms Grace and Ida. Poyser told THE STAR that...

Detectives attached to the Freeport and Barnett Street police stations in St James are probing the death of a retired member of the Jamaica Defence Force. The deceased has been identified as Henry McFayden, 78. He was discovered laying on the...

Uber offers rides for vaccines Uber is offering 3,000 free rides for persons to go to vaccination centres in Kingston in order to get the COVID-19 jab. "This effort is part of Uber's global commitment to contributing 10 million free or...

When the dreaded news came from the Ministry of Health and Wellness last March that Jamaica had recorded its first case of COVID-19, dancehall artiste D'Angel, like most persons, wondered about the future. Countries had, by then, begun closing...

Cows get helicopter ride Cows in Switzerland have been airlifted to the bottom of their Alpine meadows. The strange spectacle saw a handful of the animals taken by helicopter off the mountain ridges in the Klausenpass region in the centre of......

Michael Everett, a Portmore resident who was diagnosed with kidney failure in June, is among the many Jamaicans who are finding it difficult keeping up with the cost of dialysis and the dieting requirements. Everett, a labourer, said that he has.....

A Manchester man has been arrested and charged for the murder of 67-year-old Duwen Wallace, otherwise called 'Jackie Wallace', of Christiana in the parish on May 31. Charged is 29-year-old Ricordo Kennedy, otherwise...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's infectious diseases agency on Thursday urged countries to push ahead with their primary coronavirus vaccination programs and played down the need for booster shoots to ward off the delta variant...

TOKYO (AP) -- Moderna Inc. and its Japanese partner are recalling more than 1 million doses of the U.S. drug maker's coronavirus vaccine after confirming that contamination reported last week was tiny particles of stainless steel....

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 572 new COVID-19 cases from 1,685 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 69,054 with 18,554 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 40.2%. Of the new cases,...

BEIJING (AP) -- China's government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote "revolutionary culture," broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A stunned U.S. East Coast woke up Thursday to a rising death toll, surging rivers and destruction from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which walloped the region with record-breaking rain days after hitting the Gulf Coast as one...

Rocquel Bartley is convinced that a woman duppy had a hand in her spouse's death. Her spouse died on July 1, a few weeks before she gave birth to their daughter. Bartley, 29, told THE STAR that a series of strange occurrences began when they...

Shakeira Robinson's 11-year-old son has one wish, to cuddle with his mother again. Her son, Damion Blackstock, a grade five student at Denbigh Primary School in Clarendon, has been batting acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and has been hospitalised......

Some St Mary residents have been struggling to stay connected to the Internet as thieves are making off with equipment. In one incident on April 11, several copper wires from the coaxial cables used by a data centre were stolen from posts in and......

The triple threat of COVID-19, murders and motor vehicle crashes have claimed the lives of at least 2,464 persons in Jamaica since the start of the year. COVID-19 has claimed 1,215 lives since January 1; another 935 are murder victims and 314...

Dr Melody Ennis, director of family health services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, has appealed to the parents of children with illnesses such as asthma and bronchitis to ensure they get the COVID-19 vaccine. Ennis, who is leading...