According to Anya Gloudon, her mother Barbara Gloudon lived a life only in service to her fellow Jamaicans and, if given the chance, the veteran journalist and radio broadcaster would do it all over again. "The most important thing for her was...

News came early Thursday that Jamaica had lost an iconic figure in Barbara Gloudon. THE WEEKEND STAR took to the streets to get reactions from members of the public Daily West: "She uplift Jamaica and the world, she keep we in touch with...

A hole in the ground that constantly springs has been a saviour for some residents of Majesty Gardens [aka Back-To] in Kingston 11, who say that there is a chronic water problem in the community. This spring, the source of which has not been......

Julia Campbell, who celebrated her 105th birthday on Easter Monday, April 18, is one sprightly woman. During a visit to her home last week, the senior, at the urging of her daughter Marelyn Shaw, the centenarian danced to the infectious sounds......

Two days after what would have been his 71st birthday, Fitzroy 'Bunny Diamond' Simpson was given a dignified farewell with a thanksgiving service at the Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew. While there were not many obvious tears for the...

Three people, including a woman, who are implicated in the robbery of a safe containing more than $ 2.7 million, were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Sasha-Gaye Davidson is charged...

Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque condemned the actions of a Corporate Area man who confessed to grabbing his cousin by the throat after they had a dispute over parking spots. "I know that some people are indisciplined and that sort......

A Corporate Area teacher told the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday that she beat her 12-year-old child with a fan belt because she took $500 without her knowledge. However, the woman, who pleaded guilty to cruelty to a child,...

Miss Pearl has spent most of her life living next door to the Loyal James Lodge premises in Morant Bay, St Thomas. Her children, she said, played in the yard and they have never seen or heard anything spooky. "Mi surprised bad when mi hear seh....

High heels make women appear more attractive Researchers from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA, claim that women in heels are seen as more sexually attractive, physically attractive, feminine and of a higher status. In the study, a...

Sandra Johnson is looking to fulfil her late mother's wish to find her son, Kenneth Newton Anderson, but her task has always been difficult as she has never met him and doesn't know what he looks like. Johnson said that Anderson, 57, was born......

Some of Jamaica's political leaders have had contrasting responses to the latest bout of unrest in the public sector. On Thursday, dozens of air traffic controllers went on strike, crippling operations at the country's two major...

Only three airlines were able to able to land at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay this morning, as plans by air traffic controllers to lock the country's airspace goes into full mode. Frontier out of Atlanta, Sun Wing from...

Services at Jamaica's two main airports will be suspended as of 10 a.m. today as the island's air traffic controllers have taken industrial action. The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority says travel to and from the Norman...

A man who was allegedly caught trying to rob a shop in Llandilo, Westmoreland, was reportedly beaten and chopped by residents before being handed over to the police on Monday. The accused has been identified as Barrington Wallaston, 48, otherwise....

Demolition work on the Loyal James Lodge premises in Morant Bay, St Thomas, was stopped for a third time yesterday after three skulls and other bones were discovered. Since Sunday, seven skulls and several other skeletal remains, believed to be.....

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, with responsibility for Works, Everald Warmington, said work is set to commence on Jamaica's new Houses of Parliament and the development of National Heroes Park...

The Freeport police in St James have commenced a probe into Tuesday's daring daylight knife attack in Montego Bay, in which a popular taxi operator was killed. The deceased has been identified as 45-year-old Stevon Little of Moyhall community,......

SAINT International has been criss-crossing the island in search of Jamaica's next generation of supermodels. The Deiwght Peters-led modelling agency has already visited Annotto Bay, St Mary; Port Morant, St Thomas; and Spanish Town Road in St...

The high-pitched scream of a cashier echoed in the courtroom of the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday as she was sentenced for fraud-related matters. Nastassia Spence, 24, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at hard labour,......