A British citizen was ordered to make compensation, after she damaged a receptacle bin at one of the island's airports. Jordann Doyle pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property when she appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court....

Seventeen-year-old Alix Bartley has always known that the best way to emancipate himself and his family from their circumstances was to get a good education. Bartley attained six passes in the recent staging of the Caribbean Secondary...

A constable charged with illegally soliciting funds from a motorist was offered $300,000 bail with two sureties when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Lloyd Morrison is charged for breaching the Corruption...

One of Roger Holmes' greatest wishes is to have normal fingers, but the 38-year-old says he is unaware if there is a medical procedure to correct his condition. Holmes, a resident of New Bowens in Clarendon, was born with deformed fingers and......

An ex-member of the One Don Gang yesterday recalled having to give reputed leader Andre 'Blackman' Bryan a pair of underpants on the first day they met when Bryan stopped at his home to shower. "He was cursing and saying top don like him and a...

50 per cent of nurses vaccinated Chairman of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Operationalisation Task Force, Professor Gordon Shirley, yesterday said that vaccine hesitancy among various essential groups is having a negative impact on the...

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), the principal advisory group to the World Health Organization (WHO) for vaccines and immunisation, has recommended that moderately and severely immunocompromised persons should be offered an...

Backyard poultry farmers are being encouraged to obtain butcher's licences. President of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors (JAPHI), Karen Brown, speaking at a JIS Think Tank recently, said that while licensing is not mandatory......

Women in the agricultural field will soon get a boost in their development, as Jamaica is among five countries set to benefit from the five-year Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project led by World University Service...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future, what Zuckerberg calls the " metaverse." ...

Work is advanced on the proposed Microinsurance Bill, which is expected to be tabled in parliament before the end of the 2021/22 fiscal year, on March 31, 2022. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Services Dr. Nigel...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain on Thursday said it was removing the last seven countries on its travel "red list," meaning travellers vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer have to quarantine in a government-approved hotel after...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 136 new COVID-19 cases from 1,470 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 88,666 with 28,498 being active. The country's positivity rate is currently 14.9%. Of the new...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness says beginning today, Thursday, October 28 Jamaicans due their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine will be able to make their vaccination appointments. Persons who fall in this category are asked to...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho company that successfully brought genetically modified potatoes to the market announced an agreement Thursday to help a California-based plant breeding company grow strawberries they say will stay fresh longer and...

(AP) - A cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalisation among high-risk adults with COVID-19 in a study hunting for existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat coronavirus. Researchers tested the pill used for depression and...

A team of police officers assigned to the Manchester Police Division seized one Taurus 9mm pistol with a magazine containing ten 9mm rounds of ammunition during an operation on Caledonia Road, Mandeville on Wednesday. Reports are that about 3...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- African health officials and the United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rises, and...

A 17-year-old high school student was blocked from attending classes online amid allegations that she is having an intimate relationship with the coach of one of the school's extracurricular teams. The teen's mother, while speaking to THE STAR......

The Constant Spring police have made a breakthrough in a cold case investigation of the January 31, 2020 murder of 35-year-old Oshane Jones, a music selector of Park Lane, Kingston 19. A suspect, 21-year-old Ryan Nelson, otherwise called 'Weddy......