Jamaica Star
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:30:08 -0500Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, dies at 73
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:27:08 -0500Barbados gov't announces raft of new measures to ease burden
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jul 14, CMC - The Barbados government Thursday announced a raft of new measures aimed at easing the burden on citizens as they deal with the increased cost of living occasioned by various global situations including...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:28:50 -0500ODPEM reminds citizens to be prepared for hurricane season
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is reminding citizens to have a plan of action and be prepared this hurricane season. Addressing a disaster preparedness town hall hosted by the Ministry of Local Government and......
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:14:10 -0500Body of Kingston Wharves worker found
The body of Scot Bamburry, the Kingston Wharves employee who fell overboard has been found. Bamburry reportedly fell overboard while performing stevedoring operations aboard a vessel on Tuesday night. In a released statement, Kingston Wharves...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:58:13 -050056-y-o among two charged with abduction, rape
Two St Elizabeth men have been arrested and charged for the Abduction and Rape of a teenage girl in Vineyard district, in the parish. Charged are 26-year-old Troyan Lewis, otherwise called ‘Jubi’ and 56-year-old Andrew Miller,...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:49:27 -0500UK company offers summer classes to teens
UK-based communications company SMC has partnered with Jamaican teachers to offer free one-on-one tutoring to students from Jamaica, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, the company announced. In a released statement, the group said...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:15:15 -0500Kingston man charged with murder, illegal firearm
Twenty-six-year-old Kingston resident Andre Murray, otherwise called 'Andrew Blacks', was charged with murder and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following an incident on Wild Street, Kingston 4 last month. Murray was...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:44 -0500Dream turns nightmare - University graduate who got job after STAR feature feared dead at sea
When Scot Bamburry landed a job as a stevedore at Kingston Wharves, the Wood Hall, Clarendon resident beamed with pride as he had finally got the chance to put his international shipping and logistics training to good use. Bamburry, 39, had...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:49 -0500Waterhouse hails heroine Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has left an indelible mark on people wherever she goes around the world, ever since she announced herself on to the international scene at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She has inspired and touched the lives......
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:50 -0500Fraser-Pryce academic scholarships changing lives
In 2018, Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce hosted the first SFP Hugh Senior 5K Run/Walk event to honour her late pastor of the Penwood Church of Christ in her beloved Waterhouse community of St Andrew. The proceeds from the event went to families....
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:48 -0500Dad allegedly punches son for leaving house
A Corporate Area man allegedly thumped his child in his neck and slapped him twice in the face after he warned him not to be seen outside their home. The accused pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm yesterday in the...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:46 -0500Businessman before court for knock-off goods
A Chinese businessman who was allegedly found to be in possession of large quantities of pairs of counterfeit sneakers and clothes, along with more than 200 bottles of transmission fuel, made his first appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:45 -0500Producer’s drug case set for trial
July 28 has been set as the final mention date in the matter involving dancehall producer Atto Wallace, who is currently before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court for drug offences. This after outstanding statements from an agency have...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:01:42 -0500Parchment’s dad gave a single mom a solid start
Nineteen years ago, while walking through a section of her Port Morant, St Thomas community, Andene Taylor's eyes caught a woodwork shop and a bulb went off in her head. What if I ask the owner to teach me to be a cabinetmaker, she thought to...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:00:31 -0500A senior’s desperate plea for help
Tears couldn't stop flowing as 61-year-old senior Leroy Manning made a plea for assistance. He lives in a one-room structure with tarpaulin for a roof, a dirt floor, two huge rocks protruding from the ground, makeshift windows and a zinc barring......
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:43:32 -0500Multimillion-dollar racket at NCB, senior employee arrested
Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony McLaughlin, has confirmed that a senior National Commercial Bank employee was arrested by the police Fraud Squad on Wednesday over an alleged multimillion-dollar racket uncovered this week. The man was...
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:47:08 -0500Former Miss Jamaica Universe robbed
Former Miss Jamaica Universe Kaci Fennell says she was robbed while entering a General Foods supermarket. She advised the public via social media earlier today. The popular TV Host also said that in the process of blocking her cards, she got...
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:51:07 -0500Haiti death toll continues to rise, medical group appeals for end to violence
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Jul 13, CMC - The international, independent organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of people are trapped, without clean water, food or access to medical care, in a neighbourhood of Cite...
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:46:55 -0500Wildfires scorch parts of Europe amid extreme heat wave
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In...
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:41:16 -0500Wanted man captured in the Cayman Islands
A man who was being pursued by the Joint Anti-Gang Task Force (JAGTF) was recently captured in the Cayman Islands, following a joint operation between the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) and Jamaican law enforcement on Friday, July 8.......