The government is looking to leverage Jamaica's participation in EXPO2020 Dubai to attract investments from business interests in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among other countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator...

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says that 10 to 12 Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centres (GTRCMC) will be established around the world by the middle of the year. He made the disclosure at a recent function at the GTRCMC located....

Being visually impaired is not a deterrent for Ande Bryam to fulfil his dream of being a top sound system operator/DJ. The 26-year-old lost his sight at age one due to an eye procedure that went awry. Raised by a single mother, he decided very...

A Haitian man who entered the island illegally and said he intended to ask permission to stay was robbed by a taxi man shortly after arrival. Levy Davidson, 24, pleaded guilty to illegal entry on his fourth court appearance in the Kingston and St....

T HE STAR has been reliably informed that embattled Maroon chief Richard Currie yesterday handed over his gun to the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), a day after the agency's CEO Shane Dalling said he was in breach of the Firearms Act. Dalling....

The Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court heard yesterday that video footage obtained through the Jamaica Eye network will be used in a case against an ex-con who is facing robbery charges. Ted Richards has been charged with wounding with intent...

For businesswoman Tracy-Ann Tucker, August 28, 2004 will forever be etched in her mind. She explained that it was the day she asserted her independence after a domestic dispute with her then spouse left her in a bind. "He was working in his shop....

Not wanting to suffer the same fate as her diabetic father, who died after being bedridden for 10 years, Stacia Davidson decided to change her eating habits and became a vegetarian in 2019. At just 5 feet 6 inches, at her heaviest she weighed 185....

Due to a rare knee condition which limits her ability to walk, Manchester native Khadejah Smith was desperate for assistance. After months of unemployment, Smith asked for and received a corrective knee brace through the Wray and Nephew 'Keep Up.....

Radio icon and former talk show host Winston Witter, also known as 'Babatunde,' has died. He was 62 years old. Witter died today at the University Hospital of the West Indies, where he was admitted on Sunday. He was taken to the hospital...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) is turning national focus on early-childhood education as Jamaica marks 2022 as the Year of Early Childhood Development. Chairperson of the Regulation and Certification Committee of the ECC Board, David Salmon,.....

A 51-year-old man yesterday blamed the devil for giving him the impulse to steal. David Duffus pleaded guilty to simple larceny and for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act. He was sentenced to five months' imprisonment for larceny offences....

The West Kingston police have imposed a 48-hour curfew in sections of Trench Town following a double murder in Arnett Gardens last Saturday. A third man, Kevin Hibbert, 43, was reportedly shot and killed last night while he was playing a game of.....

John Joel Joseph, the former Haitian opposition senator fingered as a suspect in the assassination of president Jovenel Moise, wept openly in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday, saying that he has not been able to sleep since his...

Commander of the Kingston Central Police Division, Superintendent Berrisford Williams, believes that peace talks and other interventions with thugs in the area do not translate to the police "bowing" to criminals. "I will reiterate that our...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday warned members of the Clansman-One Don Gang to behave after one of the defendants made a loud yawn while a police witness was testifying. The judge, after hearing the sound, instructed 11 of the 18 defendants......

More than 200 residents from several communities in St Catherine, primarily children, benefited from free eye screening at a clinic staged by the Kiwanis Club of North Spanish Town last Saturday. The eye checks were carried out at the Angel's...

As many celebrated Valentine's Day with some sweet loving from their partners, Dr Daryl Daley says he is expecting many new patients in the next six weeks. The obstetrician and gynaecologist (OB/GYN) told THE STAR, "There's certain times the...

This was 22.9 per cent higher than the US$1.01 billion for the corresponding period in 2020, reported the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). In a statement on Monday (February 14), the agency said that the out-turn was largely due to a 96.8....

The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) is expecting 1,269 affordable housing solutions to be brought to the market during the 2022/23 financial year, from three joint-venture arrangements. The joint-venture projects are with China Harbour Engineering.....