Everald Warmington, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Catherine South West, has announced that he will be exiting representational politics at the end of current term.  “I made it clear that at 70, one should demit and give to young...

A woman was found murdered in her home along Maxfield Avenue on Monday afternoon. She has been identified as 33-year-old Tashana Josephs. Early reports say Josephs was found with at least two gunshot wounds to the face. Police still processing...

A second consecutive day of roadblocks in eastern St Thomas has once again forced taxi operators in the parish to withdraw their services. Disgruntled residents continue to block roadways to protest the poor state of roads in the parish....

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Tropical Storm Earl is inching it ways towards Bermuda on Tuesday with weather forecasters predicting that it is still expected become the second named hurricane this month later this week. The Miami-based...

BERLIN (AP) -- The German government plans to drop a requirement for people to wear masks on flights to and from the country, though the health minister said Tuesday that it could be reimposed if coronavirus cases rise sharply. The rules...

The police have confirmed that 25-year-old Randall Gallimore, who was wanted for the shooting injury of a police inspector in Linstead, St Catherine on Monday, is currently in custody. He was arrested in a police operation in Wakefield, Linstead...

The Clarendon police say that a man has been taken into custody after an illegal firearm and eight rounds of ammunition were found under the driver's seat of his car. It is reported that during an operation on McWhinnie Street in Lionel Town...

It was smooth sailing on opening day (September 5), at two St. Ann schools, where school administrators and students seemed thrilled at the prospect of an exciting year. "I was up from as early as 3:00 a.m... excited and nervous at the...

A St Andrew South mother, Annette Lodge, was plunged into mourning on Sunday following the killing of another of her sons, Sheldon Williams, at the hands of gunmen. He was killed right after playing a game of football on Rhoden Crescent along...

Friends and relatives of 15-year-old Nevado ‘Teflon’ Maitland are particularly saddened by the slaying of the teen, who was struck in the head by a stray bullet while sitting along Fourth Street after 10 p.m. on Friday. They remember him as a.....

Anthony 'Bones' Laing, the father of the three boys who perished in a fire in Springfield, Westmoreland, on Sunday night, said that he cannot bear the thought of having to make funeral arrangements for them when the time comes. The boys, nine-......

Despite living in a friend's old garage following a fire that reduced their home to rubble on August 8, Lezreen Hyatt, 65, and her daughter, Venice Samules, 42, who suffers from epilepsy, said they feel very lucky to be alive. The two said their.....

The man who threatened to abduct women and girls around Mandeville, Manchester, in a viral video, was taken into police custody yesterday. Head of the Manchester Police Division, Superintendent Shane McCalla, said the man was captured on the...

When I set out to learn the ropes of creating one of chef Rameish Desouza's signature ackee meals, I was very sceptical. As a person who was raised by Rastafarians, I was taught that pork was unclean. So when Desouza, the WOYOOIE chef, said he...

Phone app can detect COVID in voices A mobile phone app can detect COVID in people's voices. An infection usually impacts the upper respiratory tract and the vocal cords so researchers decided to analyse changes in voices using an artificial...

As the second day of protests in eastern St Thomas came to a close yesterday, taxi operators said they were no closer to resuming their services.

The Manchester man that was seen in a 55-second video threatening to kidnap girls and women across Mandeville, in the parish is in police custody. Superintendent of the Manchester Police, Shane McCalla, told the STAR that investigations are...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Sept 5, CMC - The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Monday expressed its concern at "the great number of students" leaving the education system without certification and is moving towards...

WELDON, Saskatchewan (AP) -- Canadian police searched Monday for two men suspected of killing 10 people in a series of stabbings in an Indigenous community and a nearby town, as a massive manhunt for the perpetrators of one of the deadliest...