An elderly woman said that she lost all of her life savings, $358,000 on Wednesday when a man led her to believe that she was helping him to collect money from his mother overseas scammed her. Ms Brown*, 73, cut a dejected figure as she and one......

While some may hold steadfast to the belief that breadfruit makes you a coward, 39-year-old Karlene Johnson is debunking that myth by leaving her comfortable teaching job to make breadfruit-based pastries. Johnson told THE WEEKEND STAR that it......

Eyebrows were raised inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday after it was revealed that a Corporate Area man, Simon Smith, used another man's driver's licence for two years, racking up numerous traffic offences in the process....

When Emmanuel McLennon left his home three weeks ago to perform at the anniversary event for Boom Box, he was expecting a huge 'forward'. But the Rastafararian artiste, who claims that he always "shell dung the place" whenever he performs, was in.....

A repeat felon who has 51 convictions may be headed to the Home Circuit Court to be sentenced after a senior parish judge suggested that sentence indications within the parish courts may be too limited for him. Renford Soares, 44, was before...

Sharon Saunders, Jamaica's ambassador in Mexico, says she and the relevant authorities are still trying to ascertain the whereabouts of five-year-old Malaisha 'Million' Miller who got separated from her mother Teresa Wilson while crossing the US-.....

After the death of his babymother two years ago, 42-year-old Kingston resident Mark* says he is now ready to find love again. He told THE WEEKEND STAR that he was in a relationship with the mother of his son for eight years, until she passed...

The Joint Anti-Gang Task Force recently launched an intervention programme which targets schoolchildren, particularly those who are involved in criminal activities. Speaking with THE WEEKEND STAR earlier this week, Inspector Shaunjaye Mitchell,.....

A man who led police to his home to prove that he was a produce farmer ran into trouble when lawmen found 50 pounds of weed at the dwelling. Andre Love pleaded guilty to possession of and dealing in ganja on Wednesday in the Kingston and St...

A 40-year-old man who is accused of taking a picture of his stepdaughter's vagina and giving her $3,000 not to tell her mother, made his first appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. The man, who is of a Trelawny address....

The mother of the teen involved in a classroom bust-up with a teacher at the Tivoli Gardens High School in Kingston says that the incident does not reflect the discipline she has instilled in him. The boy, who has been charged with assault and...

A homeless man said he is now fearing for his life after he was allegedly held at gunpoint and buggered by five men in St Catherine, last Friday. The man, Paul*, said that he was sitting along the roadway when an unidentified man, travelling in a....

When Richard Elliot lost his left hand in a dispute, he also said goodbye to his dream of building houses. At the time, Elliot, known to most as 'Skiller', was working on a construction site in order to gain the experience needed to become a...

It has been eight years since the St James Parish Court dismissed a ganja case which had been brought against Tashoya Colquhoun, but the ghost of that old matter continues to follow her around up to the present day, and she wants it laid to rest......

Several disgruntled residents of Dalling Street, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, are demanding compensation from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) as they were without electricity from Sunday, causing them to lose thousands in grocery items......

Up to press time last night, investigators were still searching for clues surrounding the robbery of $22 million from a Beryllium courier vehicle yesterday in east Kingston. Head of the Kingston East Police Division, Senior Superintendent...

Two stolen Suzuki Vitara motor vehicles - one red and the other black - have been recovered by the police. The model of the vehicles are between 2008 and 2014. The police did not indicate when the vehicles were recovered and if anyone has been...

A former member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force is before the court, accused of unlawful possession of property. The charge arose from the seizure of a Suzuki Grand Vitara that the accused, Ralph Thompson, was allegedly found driving in...

Cabbie gets new house Fifty-nine-year-old Collington Graham, a taxi driver from Seaview Gardens in St Andrew, is thankful to be the beneficiary of a new home after the house in which he lived for 24 years was razed by fire in 2020. The keys......