The Ministry of Education and Youth is to spend $2 billion on textbooks this academic year, of which $1 billion is for primary schools and $1 billion for high schools. Portfolio Minister, Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during the sitting of......

Twenty-six-year-old Bebeto McFarlene of Charles Street in Kingston was arrested and charged with several offences after he reportedly robbed a woman he had an intimate relationship with. According to the police, McFarlene, otherwise called '...

Technology giant Apple announced its new iPhone 14, and 14 pro devices to an audience of almost three million persons on the company’s YouTube page earlier today.

Following questioning on Tuesday by the Portmore police in St Catherine, Senior Superintendent of Police Christopher Phillips says there is no reason to detain Dancehall Entertainer Silk Boss Phillips declined to give details on what...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - The Bermuda government says it will push on with its flagship legislation to legalise the use and consumption of cannabis in this British Overseas Territory after Governor Rena Lalgie announced Tuesday that she had...

BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities in southwestern China's Chengdu have maintained strict COVID-19 lockdown measures on the city of 21 million despite a major earthquake that killed at least 65 people in outlying areas. Footage circulating...

Jamaica's faith-based community is the latest group that will benefit from a restorative justice programme initiated by the Ministry of Justice, following the signing of a partnership between the parties on Tuesday (September 6). The...

The St James police are currently investigating the murder of a couple whose bodies were discovered in their home in Barrett Town in the parish on Wednesday morning.  The deceased have been identified as identified as 25-year-old...

A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) private is to face the music in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after he pleaded guilty to simple larceny yesterday. The accused, Tafari Williams, 21, is charged with receiving stolen property and simple...

Tavaughn 'Jaheim' Patterson, whose body was found in Danks Savoy, Summerfield, Clarendon, on Monday had reportedly given his life to God and was eager to get baptised. Elaine Thompson, a prayer intercessor at Equator Faith Mission Church of God......

Although nowhere close to the world record, a Jamaica-born bishop registered an impressive feat by baptising 101 persons in one ceremony. The clergyman, Bishop Dr Leslie Morgan, heads the New York-based ministry, Search of Life Church of God. He.....

A Hanover-based pastor was recently baptised for a third time. The church leader, Kirk McIntyre, was among 60 persons who experienced a religious purification at a mass baptismal exercise in Kingston last month. Dorothy Green, a pastor based in....

Head of the Canine Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Superintendent Rex Swearing, said that the country does not have any dogs capable of detecting Molly. "At this time we don't have a dog that has that capability but it is...

ROXROY MCLEAN STAR Writer Despite a recent poll that said 91 per cent of Jamaicans have little to no faith in him, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson yesterday said that he was undeterred and more "focused on what we are trying to.....

At least one resident in Waterhouse, St Andrew said that he will be making preparations to flee the space, following the shooting deaths of two men on Welcome Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. "No man, me affi lef from roun' yah so. Me caah believe.....

For World U-20 triple jump champion Jaydon Hibbert, the road to his success in the recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations was paved with tears. The 17-year-old recently achieved grade one passes with distinctions in seven.....

Two more monkeypox cases Jamaica recorded two additional monkeypox cases yesterday, bringing the total to nine. The new cases were recorded in St James and St Elizabeth. The cases have been classified as locally transmitted in a female and a...

Fans wore nappies to Justin Bieber concert Justin Bieber fans wore nappies to keep their place in the front row as the singer performed in Brazil. The Yummy singer performed at the Rock in Rio festival on Sunday, and some in the audience took.....

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...