Police Inspector Michael Brown, who was assigned to the Hanover Police Division, collapsed and died in Lucea this afternoon. Details surrounding his passing have not been released. His death has sent personnel at the Hanover divisional...

A team of officers assigned to the St. Catherine South Police Divsison seized one .38 pistol containing five .38 rounds of ammunition during an operation on Firearm on Myrtle Way, Independent City, St. Catherine on Monday. Reports from the...

September 6, 2021 is a date that will forever be etched in the mind of Rayon Reid, a survivor of the Moneague College septic tank noxious fumes incident. He witnessed two of his colleagues and good friends from Central Cesspool, Kirk Kerr, 46, of.....

MADRID (AP) -- Health authorities in Spain are blaming human error for the switching of two baby girls in a maternity ward almost 20 years ago, after one of them discovered by chance through a DNA test as a teenager that she wasn't the...

Jamaica on Monday recorded 837 new COVID-19 cases from 3,895 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 72,824 with 21,671 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 28.4%. Of the new cases, 479...

LONDON (AP) -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday he plans to keep an election promise to grapple with the rocketing cost of the long-term care needed by Britain's growing older population. To do it, he broke another...

The team Jamaica camp is upbeat after the island's Country Pavilion was named one of the 'coolest' at World Expo 2020, Dubai The ITP Media Group's subsidiary, Time Out Dubai, recently published an article featuring the...

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...