Sanitation workers at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) have issued a 72-hour notice advising of an intention to withdraw labour services.  Their union, the National Workers Union (NWU), claims that it has been trying...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jul 18, CMC - Revellers took to the streets here on Monday following a two-year hiatus, as St. Lucians participated in Carnival activities since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has killed 385 people...

Senior Superintendent of Police, Dwight Powell, has confirmed that a man, woman, and a teen boy were found dead in Free Hill, Bamboo in St Ann earlier today. The bodies were found suffering from knife and machete wounds, he said The discovery was.....

Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, officially broke ground for the US$274.5 million Montego Bay Perimeter Road at Ironshore in St. James on Saturday (July 16). The 14.9-kilometre national development project is a collaboration between the Ministry of.....

A man of unsound mind was shot dead by a police officer following a confrontation in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew this afternoon. An identity for the deceased has not been established.  Reports are that the mentally ill man earlier attacked...

A 42-year-old Westmoreland teacher died over the weekend from injuries she sustained after being hit by a car along the Whitehouse main road in the parish.

Media Production Company ‘876Streets,’ says all the necessary precautions were taken to protect spectators at their ‘Drag Rivals’ event staged at the Vernamfield Aerodrome in Clarendon on Sunday. The company made the...

Donna-Lee Donaldson's family members are going through one of their darkest hours. The former host of reality TV show 876 Roommates has been missing since July 11, the day after she celebrated her 24th birthday. In addition to the agony of being....

There was pandemonium in Waterhouse, St Andrew, last night after hometown heroine Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce claimed her fifth World Championships gold in the women's 100m with a blistering 10.67s in Eugene, Oregon, USA. "All me TV drop and bun up a....

Little did Ronaldo James know a slow-motion video he shot on a beach day with friends would catapult him to becoming a SAINT International star. After uploading a moving frame in 2019 to his Instagram account, wading out of the Flavours Beach...

Golden girl Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (centre) celebrates with bronze medal winner Elaine Thompson Herah (left) and silver medallist Shericka Jackson after the Jamaican trio completed a clean sweep in the 100 metres at the IAAF World Championships......

A total of 6,000 youngsters from across Jamaica will be engaged in gainful employment over a six-week period under the Government's Youth Summer Employment Programme (YSEP). Participants, who will begin work on August 8, will be placed in public.....

At least six persons were injured yesterday after a race car crashed into spectators at Vernamfield in Clarendon. Deputy Superintendent Anton-Gur Cardoza, acting head of operations for the Clarendon police, told THE STAR that the incident is...

Allison Johnson, teacher of Anchor district, Whitehouse, Westmoreland, died from injuries she sustained after being hit by a car along the Whitehouse main road in the parish on Saturday. Reports from the Whitehouse police are that about 7:20 p.m.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness officially broke ground for the US$274.5 million Montego Bay Perimeter Road at Ironshore in St. James on Saturday. The 14.9-kilometre national development project is a collaboration between the Ministry of Economic.....

Persons passing the Annotto Bay Cemetery in St Mary may be fooled into thinking that the several person-shaped figures in the graveyard are ghosts. However, Errol Green, director of Exodus Funeral Services which operates in the parish, said that.....

Moderate drinking can boost health -- study Scientists have claimed that moderate drinking can boost health in people over 40. The researchers said they found that those in the age group who enjoyed three to four drinks per week saw their risk....

Sunday morning saw 56-year-old Gary Parkes making several trips along Orange Street in downtown Kingston with his handcart. The furniture maker was transporting sheets of old zinc and other materials to rebuild his workshop that was gutted by fire....

Richard Campbell, the man who recovered an M-16 rifle and a handgun that were assigned to a policeman from the scene of a nasty accident in downtown Kingston on Friday night, said he is not expecting any reward for his patriotic act. The 31-...

Kavarly Arnold When Kemba Nelson lines up to run in the 100m at the IAAF World Championships this weekend, her proud mother, Sandra Campbell, will be on the streets of Mount Salem, St James, screaming at the top of her voice. Nelson, 22, booked....