Registered entities will be able to submit applications to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for chicken back and chicken neck importation come April 1. In December 2020, the Integrity Commission had recommended that with immediate effect,....

As the dwellings of persons across the island improve, learning is expected to advance and more young people will resist anti-social behaviours, said Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The Prime Minister who was delivering the keynote address at the...

Amid the pain from losing their son last Wednesday, lovebirds Kenute Williams Sr and Carroline Robinson on Saturday exchanged wedding vows, with a commitment to make their union stronger than ever. The couple said their 'I dos' at the God's...

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face on stage at the Oscars. The 57-year-old comedian was on stage at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre to present the Best Documentary Feature prize last night when he mocked some of the famous faces in the crowd,......

The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) has donated a mobile milking machine to the Sydney Pagon Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy in St Elizabeth. The equipment was handed over during a ceremony at the school...

A woman who used a stone to burst the head of a 14-year-old girl who was engaged in a fight with her daughter is to know her fate on May 10. The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the minors involved, also gave her......

President of the Jamaican Association of Employment and Cultural Exchange (JAECE), Mark Foster, said that the crisis in Ukraine may lead to more spaces opening up for Jamaicans to participate in the overseas work and travel programme this year....

Relieved! That is how Roseanne Nembhard feels following the well-needed assistance from the school family at Stony Hill Primary and Junior High, which hosted a fundraiser for her eight-year-old daughter, Abriella Weasley, on Friday. Weasley, a......

Last Tuesday, Elvis Pollack, a farmer who was paralysed after falling from a coconut tree, spoke with THE STAR expressing his desire to have his life returned to normal. "I want to get back on my feet because I don't want to lay down and let...

Mother didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth Nicola Thomas, 36, said she experienced a small amount of discomfort prior to giving birth, but claimed to have known nothing about the pregnancy until she "felt the [baby's] head"...

'My neighbour has been calling me all sort of names on social media, accusing me of being a thief. I applied for a job at a hardware store in the community and I didn't get it. I know it was because of the rumours that she was spreading.' -...

Former Haitian senator Joseph Joel John, who authorities in Haiti list as one of five fugitives involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise is to be extradited to the United States, after he signed the committal warrant on...

Roger Marshall said he has not slept or ate anything since Wednesday after he tried unsuccessfully to save 16-year-old Kenute Williams, who was murdered for his cell phone and $1,000 while walking to school along Liguanea Avenue in St Andrew....

Micey Walters had hardly left her house when she was told that her house was engulfed in flames. Her two children, Kayla, four, and Abigail, three, were inside. They would not make it out. "God, a whey mi do? A feel like a gwine mad, a caan go......

When Sandra was asked by her friend to allow her brother, Davian Bryan, to stay "even inna the toilet", she recognised that he was in dire straits. The woman, Bryan said, was her very good friend and had turned to her for help. Her brother,...

A distraught Westmoreland mother yesterday called on the Government to resume hanging after her daughter was murdered in the parish. Tascian Copeland, 24, who was pregnant, was travelling home on a bike taxi on Wednesday night when she and the...

A Corporate Area man who said he bought a television set, a laptop, a Samsung cellphone and a Samsung DVD player for $30,000 will know his fate on May 16. The items, all of which were stolen, are said to worth $290,000. Richard Morgan, the man.....

A judge yesterday sentenced a cash-for-gold peddler to five days' imprisonment after she considered her option under a 76-year-old law under which he was prosecuted. George Findly pleaded guilty on Monday to breaching the Metal and Jewellery (...

Having watched for months as police and residents hunted for his son, Victor Bryan is breathing a sigh of relief now that his 32-year-old offspring has been taken into police custody, unharmed. "Mi glad say him captured," the elder Bryan said...

Natasha Roach she sat on an embankment across from her house in Deeside, Trelawny, wiping tears intermittently as she struggled to come to terms with the sudden loss of her son, Khamal Hall. The 16-year-old grade 10 student at William Knibb High.....