Principal of Petersfield Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland, Susan Rattray-Hammond, has said that the school is employing techniques to combat learning loss among its student population. In an interview with, Mrs Rattray-Hammond...

In Gregory Park, Portmore, St Catherine the police say an illegal gun was seized from a 17-year-old boy on Sunday. The teen has since been arrested. The nine-millimetre Brico pistol was recovered during a snap raid on Walkers Avenue in the...

The Transport Authority (TA) has this morning announced that new route licenses for taxi drivers are available for the Port Antonio to Buff Bay route, leaving minibus drivers disgruntled. The drivers this morning staged a peaceful protest, just one...

Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, is commending the police for making inroads in disrupting criminal gang activity and enhancing public safety. "They are [tackling] the criminal gangs across the country, very effectively,...

The St Andrew South police have confirmed that thugs, some of whom seemed to be using pieces of board shaped like guns, yesterday held up and robbed several call centre workers along Spanish Town Road as they travelled home on a staff bus, the...

Femheka boss Raxann Chin says she is ready to nurture the magic inside young fashion enthusiast Tajalee Thomas, a 13-year-old St Thomas native whose passion for fashion has captivated the hearts of many. The up-and-coming designer has made an...

An investigation is now under way after a St Ann-based policewoman lost her firearm after using bushes as a bathroom. The firearm was found by a civilian and returned to the police hours after the cop reported it missing. THE STAR understands...

The Island Traffic Authority (ITA) will launch an investigation into vehicles bursting into flames on collision following the latest incident yesterday. Anastacia Edwards, 38, of Hampton Heights in Runaway Bay, St Ann, died in a fiery crash...

As tensions between Russia and Ukraine intensify, the impact is set to disrupt global supply chains and affect food security across the globe. With this problem looming, local farmers are urging residents to start tilling the soil, in efforts to....

In 2020, Devaughn Plummer was one of 30 men detained in a random raid in the Denham Town zones of special operation in west Kingston. Although he denies being involved in any wrongdoing, he spent an entire day sitting in silence under the...

A last will and testament is a legal document that is speaking for you from the grave. This does not mean that your ghost is up and about telling anyone what to do with your estate. The document simply outlines what should happen to your assets...

Fishermen of Port Morant, St Thomas, say that night divers are robbing them of their livelihood. Not only is it illegal to fish at night, but they accuse the divers of capitalising on their efforts when they bait the waters. They also accuse the.....

The police are investigating an incident that occurred in Half-Way-Tree this morning, where a man was allegedly robbed and shot outside the Sagicor Bank at Tropical Plaza The incident occurred about 9:45 am. The robbers escaped on a...

The United States Senate late last night confirmed Jamaica-born, Kingston College (KC) old boy Noah Nick Perry as the new United States Ambassador to Jamaica. Earlier this week, Perry's nomination received the unanimous support of...

The police are on the lookout for a group of men who they say engaged in a shoot-out with them along sections of Main Street, Mandeville in Manchester. Reports are sometime after 3 p.m., the police, acting on information that suspicious men...

Adisa Alexander said he felt his soul leaving his body shortly after he was shot not once, not twice, not thrice, but 33 times! The chilling incident took place on October 13, 2020, in Tavern, a community that neighbours his hometown of Gordon...

The family of Michael Jackson, the comatose 15-year-old boy who was involved in a crash in St Thomas, is calling on the nation to join them in prayer this Friday, March 11 at 1 p.m. The crash occurred last weekend along the Trinityville main...

There is now a deep sense of regret emanating from relatives of 16-year-old Deandre Channer after he was killed during a reported confrontation with the police on Wednesday. According to Novelette Collins, the teen's grandaunt, Deandre stopped...

A vendor who said he was a good friend of 'Crocs', the sex worker whose bullet-riddled body was found inside a Jamaica Defence Force sergeant's car on February 26, described her as a 'gud gyal'. The man said Crocs started working on Ripon Road......

A Kingston woman got the shock of her life when she checked her ex-boyfriend's WhatsApp status and saw a photo of his exposed penis next to her face as she slept in her bed. The woman was alerted to the presence of the photo by her ex-boyfriend......