The World Health Organisation warned Monday that the global risk from the omicron variant is "very high" based on the early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with "severe consequences." The...

The police seized a .38 revolver with six 9mm cartridges this morning in Bickerseth, Cambridge in St. James. Reports from the Cambridge Police are that about 6:57.a.m, the Police conducted a Targeted Raid and the firearm was seized. Two persons...

STAR readers may easily remember Kerry Ann Anderson, who raised the eyebrows of Jamaicans when it was discovered that she mothered five sets of twins. The 36-year-old also gave birth to two other children. Anderson, who was living in Denham...

Whenever Ipal Smith leaves his Penlyne Castle, St Andrew, dwelling and sets up his trees along Constant Spring Road, you know it is time to start buying Christmas decorations. Yesterday, Smith and his business partner Omar Watson were the first......

It has been 11 days since 24-year-old Dorrell Miller and his friend Matthew Evans, 19, disappeared and their loved ones are seeking answers. Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, Matthew's father David Evans says this behaviour is unlike his son and.....

Member of Parliament (MP) for North East St Elizabeth, Delroy Slowley, said he wants to build an agriculture college in his constituency to help bolster literacy among the youth. Slowley, in an exclusive interview with THE STAR, said that he has....

The narcotics police have charged three western Jamaica fishermen in connection with last Monday's seizure of over 900 kilogrammes of cocaine in Black River, St Elizabeth, last Monday. Charged are: Daniel Hanson, 40, of a St Elizabeth address; as....

Sagicor Foundation Jamaica, organisers of the annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, has announced that the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) will be the main beneficiary of the 2022 charity road race to be held in February 2022. Dr Natalie Whylie,...

The National Works Agency (NWA) says as of Saturday, it will close Barry Street in the vicinity of the Supreme Court in Kingston to carry out emergency drainage improvement works. The NWA says the road will be closed for about 10 days. NWA...

An unidentified male who allegedly engaged the security forces in a shoot-out in Spanish Town, St Catherine, early Friday morning was killed and a firearm seized. It is reported that about 2:47 a.m., a joint police-military team was on patrol near.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says that the Administration is committed to driving down crime by using "very effective" measures at its disposal, such as the States of Public Emergency (SOEs). Mr Holmes pointed out that the SOEs...

Less than a month after being released from prison where he served a six-month term for larceny, Roderick Wilson, a Corporate Area resident, is heading back to prison. Wilson yesterday pleaded guilty to larceny by trick when he appeared in the.....

When THE STAR made a call for persons born on November 24, 1951 to come forward and be featured by the newspaper, Inez Phynn left her Rum Lane, Kingston, home with her twins, Diane and Bruce Jones to have their photograph taken. Diane and Bruce,......

The mother of Odaine Parkes, one of two men who was killed at a Red Hills Road gas station on Monday, says he was a quiet and calm individual. Speaking to THE WEEKEND STAR yesterday, the distraught mother, Marie, was inconsolable. "Even in his.....

"Yuh kill me son mother already... nuh badda kill me, just leave me mek me raise him," were reportedly the last words uttered by Michael Solomon, one of the victims of the September 12 quadruple murder in Havannah Heights, Clarendon. Solomon,......

A St Catherine family is seeking help from the public to send their 'miracle baby', seven-year-old Cathalia Hayles, overseas in order to get medical treatment for her left arm which has been partially paralysed since birth. Cathalia's mother,...

President of the Senate, Tom Tavares Finson, said the parliamentary opposition, particularly the three senators who voted against the state of emergency (SOE), have "put this country is grave danger". Peter Bunting, Lambert Brown and Floyd Morris....

A cellular phone that was used to secretly record the conversations of alleged members of the Clansman - One Don Gang, including its reputed leader Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, has been admitted into evidence. The phone was one of three that the...

A US$274.5-million contract has been signed for the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project, which will see construction of a 14.9-kilometere bypass of the city. This is expected to create a safe and reliable alternative route for motorists travelling.....

Dancehall-reggae star Mr Easy knows that Jamaicans are traumatised and hurting because of the loss of loved ones precipitated by the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic and a murder epidemic. He said that is the major reason he wrote and released......