A private health facility in western Jamaica requires a deposit of $2 million for each COVID-19 patient being admitted. The facility, which had no space to admit patients yesterday, said that in addition to the deposit, persons may face additional....

As the spate of shootings continue in Central Village, a group of gunmen carrying high-powered weapons shot and killed a man and seriously injured his spouse at her home in the Windsor Heights community. According to reports, the couple was at...

A woman takes a shower stark naked in a motel parking lot on Port Henderson Road, more commonly known as Back Road in Portmore, St Catherine. Still in the nude, she welcomes THE WEEKEND STAR team with a smile. For her and the other sex workers,.....

Some residents of Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth who decided to get vaccinated under a free pizza initiative are giving away their tasty rewards to health workers. Since the inception of the initiative, David Folb, managing director of Lashings......

The expression 'he who feels it knows it' never felt more real for reggae singer George Nooks than when he heard the song Through it All for the very first time. "That was many, many years ago, and I knew that one day I would have to do a cover......

CABBIE SHOT AND KILLED BY COP A taxi driver was shot and killed and his driver injured after the cab in which they were travelling was fired into by a cop on King Street, downtown Kingston, on Thursday. According to the Independent...

Arguing that many of the 1,568 persons who have died from COVID-19 in Jamaica could have been alive if the Government was managing the pandemic better, the parliamentary opposition said that it is high time Dr Christopher Tufton be separated from.....

Strings filled with freshly caught perch were on display for sale along a section of Ferry, St Catherine, yesterday. Sitting under a tree a short distance away, Jerome Dajue flashed a wide smile, fixed his hat and approached the news team. At...

"If doctor can't help you, we can help you." These are the words of 51-year-old Cynthia Dennie, known to many as 'Princess', the herbalist who operates from the Cross Roads Market in St Andrew. Raised in Bowden Hill district in Stony Hill, St......

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BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC) -The Belize government is to bring legislation that allows for fines of up to BDZ$3,000 for circulating fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement issued following the Cabinet meeting said that the government...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green, says external demand for Jamaican agricultural produce and value-added items continues to increase, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at the virtual launch of the Agriculture...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites, was destroyed in an explosive fireball after suffering an "anomaly" off the California coast during its first attempt at...

Twenty-four-year-old Shanique Haynes otherwise called 'Shan', bartender of Lewis district, St. Ann was shot and killed by unknown assailants at her home on Thursday. Reports from the St. Ann's Bay Police are that about 9:20 p...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Apple is indefinitely delaying plans to scan iPhones in the U.S. for images of child sexual abuse following an outcry from security and privacy experts who warned the technology could be exploited for other...

President of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett, has urged mining industries to be mindful of chemical spills into the Rio Cobre River. He stated that there are still signs of chemical spills in the river, which poses a...

Jamaica on Thursday recorded 735 new COVID-19 cases from 2,037 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 69,789 with 19,187 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 41.4%. Of the new cases,...

(AP) - The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer. The problem, health leaders say, is twofold: Nurses are...

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......