The Ministry of Health & Wellness is set to resume the administration of Pfizer's first dose to children 12 years and older today.  The rollout will take place predominantly in schools. Persons 18 years and older are still able to...

St James Municipal Corporation is actively working on a disaster plan to mitigate the effects of flooding and other natural disasters on the parish. Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, made the disclosure at...

Police from the St Andrew North jurisdiction seized two firearms and three motor vehicles during an operation on Retreat Lane, Kingston 8 yesterday. Reports are that about 8:00 a.m., a premises was searched and the following items seized...

It has been a year and two days since Kaylan Dowdie has been laying in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) after she was reportedly beaten by a group of women at a party on November 7 2020....

On what residents describe as a usually very busy road, the only life that could be seen on Young Street yesterday morning were members of the security forces, mortuary workers, and those members of the public dealing with the business of their......

Desreen Gayle, 33, and her five-year-old daughter, Natasha Whyte, are lucky to be alive after nearly being swept away by floodwaters brought on by heavy rains while walking along a section of the Sign Irwin main road, in St James, yesterday...

A lifelong dream turned reality has been a force for good in Rockfort, East Kingston, where a number of youngsters have gained employment in a street-side carpentry business. One of the men behind the venture is 36-year-old Fatado Walters, a self....

A former member of the One Don Gang yesterday testified that he was prepared to go to prison in order to put an end to the gang's bloodshed. The prosecution's second star witness testified in the Home Circuit Court that he had voluntarily gone to....

Although Gillian Dallas has been categorised as legally blind for the past two decades, she recently completed a master's degree in educational administration with a distinction. The 44-year-old related that she started experiencing challenges......

Rennock Lodge All-Age School is one of the 376 institutions that has been cleared for reopening for face-to-face schooling, but when THE STAR visited the institution yesterday, only a handful of students were present. In fact, only two students....

After telling a Falmouth, Trelawny audience (Saturday, November 6) that Jamaica is on the verge of administering one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Minister of and Health Wellness, Dr the Hon Christopher Tufton, on Sunday, November 7...

"I got a call from the doctor at the hospital and she said that it seems like Kordell has less than an hour and I should come right now." It was a phone call that Marvin Murphy was not expecting. His wife, Kordell Clarke-Murphy, had given birth......

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): Chris Gayle has labelled his just concluded campaign in the Twenty20 World Cup as his "worst" ever, after scraping only 45 runs from five innings. In his last World Cup appearance against Australia on...

Residents of Blenheim in Manchester say they have been left in a state of confusion and sadness since the gruesome killing of 54-year-old Lorna Lake, a farmer from the community. Lake, who was also the mother of popular Youtuber and up-and-...

Walking on one's hands may sound complicated but, for Raheem Williams, it a task that he does with ease. Williams' disability that has not been diagnosed by doctors affects his capacity to stand upright. However, the 27-year-old told THE STAR...

Santa on wheels US-based stunt biker Darnell Meyers dons a Santa Claus suit as he rides a bicycle, which was gifted to a young fan at Queens Crescent, off Richmond Park in St Andrew yesterday. Meyers, known for his daring tricks, has been...

Having got his voice back, political powerhouse Audley Shaw has served notice that he will soon revert to the powerful presentation style for which he is known. The Minister of Industry, Investment, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries recently......

Creamy Palace, one of the newest eateries in downtown Kingston, will host 'Old Time Puddin Festival', an event that is intended to pay tribute to the 'good ole time' Jamaican pudding. "Many of us remember trips to the country when our...

The forced reduction in consular services at the US embassy in Kingston, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has dealt a devastating blow to residents in the nearby community of Standpipe, who, for years, have made a decent living from offering allied......

Jamaica's COVID-19 vaccination rate reaches 15 per cent Approximately 15 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated. The target is to get the vaccination rate to a minimum of 65 per cent by next March. As at 2:30 p.m., yesterday, the...