Despite having his left leg amputated above the knee, Wilsie Benneth still decides to stand tall and is carving his way daily to make a living. Carved wooden eagles, ashtrays, coats of arms, forks and spoons were on display in the small space...

Although they have not met in person, a 52-year-old German woman says she is the 'wife' of incarcerated deejay Vybz Kartel. Speaking with THE STAR yesterday via video call, Jana Healy, who is also known by her Muslim name Fatimah Mohammad, said.....

It has been almost 11 months since Kaylan Dowdie, now 18, has been hospitalised at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), after reportedly being beaten by a group of women at a party last November along Barbican Road, St Andrew. For......

While some sections of Gregory Park in Portmore, St Catherine, catch the eye because of the pristine homes with manicured lawns, there are other sections where the residents are not so well off. Take for example areas such as Portmore Villa, more....

Any further delays in the resumption of face-to-face learning in schools will put the nation's children, particularly the underserved, at great risk of having permanent mental breakdowns, according university lecturer Dr Orville Beckford. Schools....

Residents of March Pen Road, St Catherine, say they are relieved that a man who chained and beat his adult son, who is said to be mentally ill, is in police custody. The man, identified as Isaac Higgins, 69, reportedly chained his 29-year-old son....

Gleeful shouts of 'Auntie Lotoya' greet Constable Lotoya Garriques each time she visits or video calls three-year-old Andre*. The policewoman, who recently donated back-to-school supplies to Andre and one other child from the Clark's Town area......

Female farmers made up most of the audience at the Jamaica Pig Farmers Association's 19th annual general meeting held on at the Denbigh Agricultural Showground in Clarendon last Thursday. Among them was Sergeant Delrose Green- Johnson, of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration on Monday reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme...

LONDON (AP) -- Simplified international travel rules took effect Monday in the U.K., easing quarantine and testing requirements for fully vaccinated travellers from more than 50 countries, and the conservative government vowed it will seek to...

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), says it will commence distribution of the newly designed voter registration identification cards on October 11, 2021. The new card will replace all current voter ID cards which expire on...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded 213 new COVID-19 cases from 1,970 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 84,914 with 29,006 being active. The country's positivity rate is currently 15.8%. Of the new...

Social media giants, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are all currently down for thousands of users across the globe. According to online outage tracker DownDetector, problems with the services all offered by Facebook, began at...

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- The European Union's drug regulator gave its backing Monday to administering booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older. The European Medicines Agency said the booster doses "may...

The Government's vaccination drive has been boosted through the donation of two mobile units by the Yantai Municipal People's Government of the People's Republic of China. The vehicles, valued at Y=878,597 RMB (approximately J$19 million) are...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) is yet to determine the cause of death of two persons who passed away after receiving shots of the COVID-19 vaccine recently. Nine other deaths have been classified as coincidental, according to Dr...

The body of 65-year-old hunter Renold Franklin was removed from a ravine in the hilly interior of the Rio Grande Valley, Portland, shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday by a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helicopter, which was called in to assist with the.....

The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) is reporting that based on focus group discussions with teens, there is the perception that youth drug use is on the rise due to COVID-19. Michael Tucker, executive director of the NCDA, told THE WEEKEND.....

Ravaged by Hurricane Sandy nearly a decade ago, residents of Dump in Annotto Bay, St Mary, are still reeling from the effects of that storm. Sandra Ricketts, 49, vividly remembers the devastation caused by the category-three hurricane, which,...

A self-confessed member of the One Don Gang yesterday testified that Stephanie Christie, the lone female defendant in the ongoing anti-gang trial, was among the top-tier members of the criminal organisation. The witness, who is the first to be...