Prime Minister Andrew Holness is receiving high praise from residents of Paul Island, Westmoreland after he flew to the community to pray for an ailing woman.   Residents gazed with apprehension on a helicopter as it landed in the...

Pump attendants and customers of a Red Hills Road gas station had to run for cover yesterday as thugs fatally shot two men who were sitting in a white Subaru at one of the pumps. The incident happened shortly after midday. Eyewitnesses say the...

Equipped with US$450, faith and her aspiration of becoming a business professional, Brianna Plowright left her home in Portmore, St Catherine, in 2016 to attend university in Washington, DC. Between being accepted to prestigious Howard...

Lives in East Rural St Andrew have been significantly affected by a massive breakaway along the Cane River Road caused by heavy rains associated with tropical storms Zeta, Eta and Grace over a 12-month period. THE STAR spoke to several...

Opposition spokesman on National Security, Senator Peter Bunting, is urging the Government to abandon the use of states of emergency (SOE) as a routine crime-fighting measure. Bunting's comments come after the release of the latest Jamaica...

Last Saturday, Duwayne 'Dewy' Scarlett did a royal wave as he exited the arrival section of London Gatwick Airport. His wife, social media star/recording artiste Queenie Lady Gangsta, dashed in his arms and showered him with kisses while...

A traumatised Christopher Wright yesterday detailed the spine-chilling ordeal he experienced last Saturday as he and a friend were caught in the crossfire between police and a fleeing gunman. Gilford Henry, a 46-year-old deportee, reportedly shot....

Alleged members of the One Don faction of the Clansman Gang yesterday verbally protested against the meals provided by the State for them during day 31 of their trial in Kingston. Alleged gang leader Andre 'Blackman' Bryan told the court that he....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Two of 17 members of a missionary group who were kidnapped more than a month ago are safe and "in good spirits" after being freed in Haiti, their U.S..-based church organisation announced. Christian...

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is reporting that the country's gross international reserves, as at November 17, totalled approximately US$4.7 billion. Governor, Richard Byles, said the figure represents the equivalent of 143.8 per cent of the...

Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, says that Port Royal is a valuable historical asset, and the Government is committed to ensuring that the area is developed and maintained for the benefit of Jamaicans. "Port Royal is a historical gem for...

A 16-year-old high-school student is now dead, after being shot multiple times, allegedly by her granduncle at her home on Lincoln Road, east Kingston, on Saturday. The teen, Sorika Picart, a student of Alpha Academy, was shot at least six times....

Having spent the better part of six decades working on a farm - which enabled her to feed, clothe, and fund her nine children's education - 73-year-old farmer Jennifer Francis, better known as 'Aunty', believes that agriculture has much to offer......

It has been almost 14 months since Gilbert Thompson went missing. The 69-year-old mason, of Plantain Walk, Dallas Castle, St Andrew, was last seen on Sunday, August 24, 2020 while he was at work in Lyndhurst Gap in the parish. Since his father's.....

With more than 400 persons been killed in crashes on Jamaica's roads since the start of the year, the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) has issued a call for the speedy implementation of the safe system approach . Prime Minister Andrew Holness.....

The second of three national shelters being established by the Government to accommodate women, who are victims of abuse, and their children, will be opened shortly. Denzil Thorpe, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Gender,...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP): Biblical Bethlehem has struggled since the start of the coronavirus pandemic almost two years ago. Christmas is normally peak season for tourism in Jesus' traditional birthplace, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank....

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden last Friday pardoned two Thanksgiving turkeys, saying that the white male birds were selected based on their "temperament, appearance and, I suspect, vaccination status." "Instead of getting basted, these two.....

More than 300 Jamaicans are waiting to be admitted into state-run infirmaries across the island but a decision by the Government last March to stop accepting new admissions due to the pandemic has meant that they remain in limbo. Minister of...

Vincent Dunn, the ex-boyfriend of 27-year-old McKedia Hudson who died after the car he was driving plunged into the Rio Cobre in the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court last...