Renowned Gleaner columnist Gordon Robinson wants the Government to make it mandatory for people to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Robinson, an attorney-at-law, said that people should "vaccinate or pay for regular PCR testing or lose the work"....

Actor Michael K. Williams best known for his roles on 'The Wire' and 'Boardwalk Empire' was found dead in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York on Monday. Police say Michael K. Williams, who played the character Omar,...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The U.N.'s top climate official urged governments Monday to stop their "deferral and delay" tactics and instead embrace rapid, widespread measures to curb and adapt to global warming. Amid a...

President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Clifton Reader, says that the vaccination of tourism workers is essential in safeguarding the industry. "That is why we are driving this process as hard as we can to make sure that...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded 643 new COVID-19 cases from 1,500 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 71,987 with 20,967 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 43.7%. Of the new cases, 396...

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- The European Medicines Agency says it has started an expedited evaluation on whether to recommend a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech. In a statement Monday, the EU drug regulator says it is...

Tiffany Taylor STAR Writer As the surge in confirmed COVID-19 cases continues, one businessman and his community have joined the fight by donating equipment to local hospitals to boost the defence against the deadly virus. David Folb, managing...

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......

HOROSCOPE SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 WHAT TO DO AND WHEN TO DO IT Entertainment and romance...................6th Domestic and family matters.................9th Bargain hunting and shopping................6th Selling...

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...