Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is urging Jamaicans to take acts of violence by family members seriously. Speaking during a visit with Gwendolyn McKnight on Friday (July 1), who is mourning the brutal murder of her daughter and four grand-children......

Thirty-four-year-old Ryan Richards, a farmer from Irish Town in St Andrew, was charged with assault after threatening to shoot a man during a dispute. According to the Irish Town Police, on Friday, July 01, the two men got into a fight in the town.....

George McPherson, who became well known in his community of Norris, St Thomas for taking part in his own fake funeral in 2008 and staging 'memorials' annually, has died. 'Jungle George', as he was affectionately called, died on June 4 after he......

Grief and cries of agony filled the air yesterday as the small, square casket bearing the charred remains of sisters Kayla and Abigail Tomlinson arrived at the Race Course Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vere, Clarendon. The girls, ages four and.....

Melania Morgan, the four-year-old who was reported missing on June 27, is to be reunited with her mother early this week, according to the police. Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, Aaron Fletcher, commanding officer for the St Andrew North...

A Good Samaritan was shot and killed by unknown assailants as he attempted to prevent a robbery along Tom Redcam Drive in St Andrew in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The police's Corporate Communications Unit confirmed that the deceased is 21....

Recording artiste and social media star Queenie Lady Gangsta says her husband, Duwayne 'Dewy' Scarlett, has requested a break from their 14-month-old marriage and she wishes him the best. "Mi nah fool mi self because Dewy nah fight for the...

Police have charged a 25-year-old man of a Shalimar Close, Kingston 3, address with robbery with aggravation following an incident that occurred in his community on June 14. Akeem Mitchell is accused of holding up a woman with a knife and...

Samuel Waldo, 40, has been charged with the murder of his 77-year-old uncle, whose dismembered and burnt body was found in bushes in St Andrew. The remains of Derrick Lindsay were discovered in the community of Cavaliers on Monday, June 6. The...

A real-estate transaction involves various costs that are paid by the vendor and the purchaser on a transfer of property. In this week's edition I will use the opportunity to detail the fees associated with a real-estate transaction. This type......

A 26-year-old university graduate said that leaving his "trashy" call centre job to do pornography was one of the best decisions he has ever made. "I have been in the industry since 2019, right before COVID hit. Before that, I was working at a...

Head of the St Andrew Central Police Division, Senior Superintendent Marlon Nesbeth, has refuted claims that murder accused Rushane Barnett was assaulted while in custody at the Half-Way Tree Police Station. Barnett, 23, made the claim on...

A 62-year-old woman battling cancer was reportedly scammed out of $600,000 of her life savings by two men in Port Maria, St Mary, on Tuesday. It is understood that the money was earmarked to cover her medical expenses. The incident was confirmed....

A Corporate Area man confessed that he obtained a fake passport in his deceased brother's name, as he was approached by members in his community who wanted to purchase the dead man's identity. Romane Stewart, who is before the Kingston and St......

A now decommissioned corrections officer who confessed to introducing ganja into a penal institution was fined $200,000 or 12-months' imprisonment when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Chief Parish Judge Chester......

Noted attorney-at-law Valerie Neita-Robertson is warning persons that failure to report a crime they have witnessed or have knowledge of could land them behind prison bars. Neita-Robertson told THE WEEKEND STAR that the offence, which is called......

Vendors at the newly upgraded Clark's Town Market in Trelawny, while thankful for the improvements made to the space, are calling on the authorities to deal with a drainage problem with which they are now faced. "I appreciate the effort to...

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed by gunmen within the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, on Thursday morning. He has been identified as Jayre Francis, otherwise called 'Jay' of Ricketts Street, also in...

Twenty-two-year-old yam farmer, Kayson McKoy, is now many steps closer to pursuing his dream of becoming a household name in agriculture. He's the first winner of $1 million in the Digicel Golden SIM promotion. "I was completely shocked," McKoy.....

More than 1.6 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has said. Dr Carissa Etienne, PAHO director, said just over 69 per cent of the region's population has...