Jamaica Star
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:20 -0500Sacrificed man was promised kidney
A woman whose son was killed inside the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries on Sunday night is accusing the church of fooling him that he would receive a kidney. Sharon Parkins, 58, the mother of Michael Scott Brown, 38, who was....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:18 -0500Internet woes force mother to relocate her children
Fuelled by the drive to make sure her children have more opportunities than she did growing up, businesswoman Georgia Burrell made the difficult decision to send her children to stay with family members so they could participate in online school......
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:06 -0500St Thomas artistes praise citizens after girls are rescued
With the recent kidnappings of two children from Bath in St Thomas, recording artistes who hail from the parish are lauding the residents for playing such a big role in finding them. "People were devastated and traumatised but they were out. The.....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:19 -0500Judge blasts woman for being rude to court staff
An irate judge reprimanded a woman after hearing that she was disrespectful to court workers. Leonie Anderson has a 2019 matter before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, which her attorney Charles Williams submitted an application to relist....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:18 -0500Mom beats son who refuses to attend online class
A mother was hauled before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday for beating her 14-year-old child with a piece of board. Patricia Brown pleaded guilty to the offence of cruelty to a child before Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks......
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:17 -0500Obeah worker says Pathways Church incident is a ‘disgrace’
Sunday's alleged sacrifice of two persons inside the Montego Bay-based Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries church is a disgrace and humiliation upon the nation, according to Ruben Williams, a St Thomas-based obeah man. He said......
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:13 -0500JPS predicts more outages due to theft
Light and power company Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has expressed fear that customers will see more frequent and much longer power outages because of the suspension of the company's Transformer Protection Programme by the Office of Utilities...
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:12 -0500Tommy Lee Sparta to ‘Transition’ November 5
For an entertainer whose history has seen him embrace names such as Uncle Demon, the word 'transition' when used in the same sentence as 'Tommy Lee Sparta' can conjure up a myriad of images. But, this time, Transition is simply the title of the....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:10 -0500Grandson confesses to killing his grandmother
Police have charged the grandson of an elderly Trelawny woman with her murder after he reportedly confessed that he killed her. Violet Walcott, 76, of Allsides district, Warsop, in Trelawny, was discovered chopped to death on Monday morning. The......
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:07 -0500Jungle in-justice - Llandewey residents say misinformation led to wrong man being killed
Levi Chambers, a motor vehicle detailer of South Haven, St Thomas, was killed yesterday by residents who mistook him for Davian Bryan, the main suspect in the abduction of two girls in Bath, St Thomas. Chambers was killed in Llandewey, a district....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:04 -0500‘I am afraid of the young ones’ - Judge says she prefers to take her chances with a 40-year-old gunman
Senior parish judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague said that younger people appear more prone to commit certain crimes. The judge, while imposing sentence on a 21-year-old man in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday, said she would take her....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:01 -0500Man assaults girlfriend after finding disturbing videos on phone
A man who told the court that upsetting videos and photos in his partner's phone caused him to beat her was ordered to make compensation of $100,000 when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday. Davion Watt pleaded...
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:02:00 -0500Violence has sections of Franklyn Town on edge
Jane*, a resident in Franklyn Town, Kingston, said that she is so afraid to leave her house that she now charters a cab to move about rather than walk. She also said that she has never seen things so bad in the 41 years she has lived there and is....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:47:31 -0500Haiti gang leader threatens to kill kidnapped missionaries
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that police say is holding 17 members of a kidnapped missionary group is seen in a video released Thursday saying he will kill them if he doesn't get what he's...
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:16:56 -0500Key suspect in killing of Haitian President arrested in Jamaica
Mario Palacois Palacios, a former Colombian military officer said to be a key suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, was arrested in Jamaica earlier this month, senior law enforcement officials confirmed....
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:03:43 -0500More housing solutions coming for poverty-stricken Jamaicans
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Desmond McKenzie, says the Government is seeking to double the number of indigent housing solutions during the 2022/23 Financial Year.
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:25:35 -0500Thief caught on livestream snatching journalist’s phone
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian prosecutors have ordered a man to face trial after he appeared to steal a journalist's phone while it was livestreaming outside the country's capital of Cairo. The country's public prosecutor said...
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:34:23 -050074 new COVID cases, four more deaths
Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 74 new COVID-19 cases from 870 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 87,797 with 28,959 being active. The country's positivity rate is currently 11.9%. Of the new cases,...
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:37:09 -0500Kingston and St Andrew to get environmental boost through CityAdapt project
Environmental rehabilitation is coming for sections of Kingston and St. Andrew through Jamaica's participation in the CityAdapt Project. The 'Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EBA) in...
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:25:15 -0500Donald Trump announces launch of his very own social media site
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, former US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's launching a new media company with its own social media...