SHANEL LEMMIE STAR WRITER Raft captains who operate in the Rio Grande in Portland say the no-movement days have only succeeded in making their financial position weaker. Lawrence Chisholm, president of the Rio Grande Raft Captains Association.....

A Jamaican high school principal has been reprimanded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information for the language he used while seeking to dissuade his students from having sex. The principal, in a video that has gone viral, labelled some.....

Shanna Monteith STAR Writer Winston Johnson, 85, of Spring Garden in St Thomas, wants to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but said he is hindered from doing so because of a lack of mobility. Johnson told THE STAR that he would greatly welcome a...

Telecommunications firm FLOW said that it has connected more than 420 communities to its fibre-fast network since January 2020. According to Stephen Price, FLOW's general manager, the upgrade means that more than 90,000 homes can now access the...

Shadow Minister of National Security Senator Peter Bunting has given the Government a failing grade for its management of the crime portfolio. Bunting, pointing to the 10 per cent increase in murders so far this year, called on the Government to...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- More than 100 heads of state and government are planning to attend the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders in person next week, including U.S. President Joe Biden, King Abdullah II of Jordan...

Twenty-three-year-old Savijon Brown, an artist of Gold Smith Avenue, August Town in St. Andrew has been arrested and charged following an incident in Bridgeport, Portmore, St. Catherine on Saturday, September 11. Reports are that about 8:45 p.m.,......

(AP) - The average person doesn't need a COVID-19 booster yet, an international group of scientists, including two top U.S. regulators, wrote Monday in a scientific journal. The experts reviewed studies of the vaccines'...

A police operation in the Hermitage community of Kingston 7 on Sunday, resulted in the seizure of one Taurus 9mm pistol and seventeen 9mm rounds of ammunition. Reports are that between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 noon, lawmen were...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's chief medical officers said Monday that children aged 12 to 15 should be vaccinated against coronavirus, despite a ruling by the government's vaccine advisors that the step would have only marginal health...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded 594 new COVID-19 cases from 2,136 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 76,451 with 24,460 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 36.2%. Of the new cases, 356...

SHANEL LEMMIE STAR WRITER "Me hear a big groaning, like somebody going into labour, and the next thing I know, the roof of di house next door to me rip right off, tear right off," comedian and actor Oliver Samuels recalled. The groaning of...

Detectives assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) in Clarendon have arrested and charged a man for a series of sexual offences. Dwayne Campbell, 35, a labourer of Bucknor in May Pen, Clarendon, has....

Jamaica's Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, says it will be difficult to determine how many persons lost their lives due to an oxygen shortage that rocked the public health sector two weeks ago. Bisasor-McKenzie, speaking during....

An asthmatic Portmore man died on Tuesday, mere hours after he was allegedly denied service at a private health facility in the Corporate Area. The man, Andre Lodge, 24, died at the Spanish Town Hospital. His family members allege that he...

After being slowed by arthritis in his knees, Spanish Town resident Donald Lindo stared at the possibility of struggling to make ends meet. Although he is a skilled carpenter and painter, Lindo found it difficult to climb onto ladders and work on.....

An unemployed Kingston woman was yesterday ordered to pay $500,000 compensation to a justice of the peace (JP) for dislocating her jawbone during a dispute that arose over the JP's alleged involvement with the husband of the offender's friend....

For Toni-Ann Lalor, mediocrity was never an option. For as long as she can remember she has been dedicated to achieving her dream of becoming a movie star. Unbeknownst to her though, her path to Hollywood glamour would be paved by farming. Lalor....

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has said that the Government's target to vaccinate 65 per cent of the population by March 2022 may change because of the emergence of new variants.....

At 73 years old, Essorine Thompson is hoping that she can see out her twilight years with relative ease. However, the street vendor continues to feel the pinch of the novel coronavirus, which has forced the Government to implement several no-...