A search is underway for Tavaughn Bulgin, a Clarendon resident who went missing in the waters at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts in the United States. Tavaughn's brother, Tavaris, reportedly drowned in same waters on Sunday...

The police have confirmed that 29-year-old Rohan Pitter, a deliveryman of Tavares Gardens, Kingston 11 has been charged with the April 2022 killing of a father and son in Hayesfield, Clarendon. According to the police, 46-year-old Thomas James Snr.....

The Transport Authority and several government agencies in St James have started a 14-day operation to bring order to the capital, Montego Bay.

An 89-year-old retired Hanover resident was killed in a house fire at her home in Hopewell, in the parish earlier today. She has been identified as retired superintendent of police Elana Nisbett. Personnel from the Jamaica Fire Brigade found...

A domestic dispute, allegedly over meals for their children, has left a 38-year-old man dead. Kimarly 'Finey' Simmonds of Rose Town, St Andrew, was reportedly stabbed by his babymother last Friday. According to police reports, about midnight,...

When Charleen Coates of charity organisation Global Hands Foundation read about paralysed nine-year-old Tamara Noble in THE STAR on July 28, she felt that she had to do something. "When I read her story it touched my heart. I said to my fellow...

Even at 102, Naomi Richards-Tucker still remembers a time when donkeys, mules and other animals were the only mode of transport in the Lime Hall, Guy's Hill, area of St Catherine. Recently when the news team visited her North East St Catherine...

Javanghni Dennis' peers thought he had hit his head when, after graduating from Bethlehem Moravian College as a trained teacher, he applied to work in an Internet cafe instead of heading to the classroom. With a laugh, he shared with THE STAR...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith yesterday said that steps are being taken to get information on why Jamaicans were denied boarding in Panama. Johnson Smith said the ministry has been made aware that six...

The Manchester police are moving to upgrade the charge against a man who attacked his landlord after the senior citizen succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as 63-year-old farmer Gregory Andrade. Toby Clarke, 30....

What happens if you don't pay your traffic ticket and the court date has passed? Upon receiving a traffic ticket, the ticket is uploaded to the Traffic Ticket Management System and the offender has 21 days to pay the fine at the tax office. If......

Constable Noel Maitland, who is charged for the murder of his girlfriend Donna-Lee Donaldson, made his first appearance this morning in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

Claiming that he has spent $15 million of his own cash travelling around the country ministering to youths, gospel artiste Jermaine Gordon has made a passionate plea for money to help him continue his work. "I need a car," said Gordon who left...

In two weeks when Delano Tucker leaves his family to start his career as a student of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), he will no longer have to worry about where and how they sleep at nights. The Tucker family was the......

As Prime Minister Andrew Holness handed over the keys to the 84th house to be given away under the New Social Housing Programme yesterday in Seafield, St Catherine, he said all recipients must now become ambassadors of hope. He was speaking at......

Next Tuesday should have been the day that Melton Blackwood walked down the aisle with his lady love. However, instead of exchanging marital vows, while surrounded by family and friends, he will be holed up in a jail cell, perhaps whispering a...

More than 20 people will be handed keys to brand new homes in Majesty Gardens, Kingston 11, later this month. The developments, which were facilitated by the National Housing Trust (NHT), feature a mix of duplex studios and one and three-bedroom....

A Corporate Area man who started selling fruits after being laid off from his job as a security officer during the heights of the pandemic found himself before the courts when he was charged for exposing goods for sale in a no vending area....

The latest cohort of police personnel to join the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has been reminded of their duty to serve with professionalism. Dr Horace Chang, the minister of national security, told the freshly minted cops that......

Grants totalling approximately $90 million have been dispatched for payment to 3,600 public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators under the Government's COVID Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme. Minister of Finance and the Public.....