The families of Fourth Street in Belrock, Olympic Gardens, who were displaced because of a fire in November 2018, are now benefiting from a newly built apartment complex. The 12-unit concrete structure was handed over by Prime Minister, Andrew...

The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has advised that operations at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine have been restricted due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Ian. Senior Medical Officer at the Spanish Town Hospital, Dr.......

Two employees of the Jamaica Public Service had to be rescued on Monday after their vehicle stalled in raging flood waters while carrying out restoration work in Lluidasvale, St Catherine. The men, who are currently undergoing counselling following....

Two alleged robbers were fatally shot in a shootout with the police in Above Rocks, St Catherine early this morning. A third alleged male robber is currently in custody. It is reported that residents became suspicious after seeing the men in a...

A High Court judge in St Vincent has sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than 17 years in jail after he was found guilty of murdering a woman he wrongly thought had infected him with the HIV/AIDS virus. Justice Brian Cottle sentenced Desron Roberts....

BELMOPAN, Belize, Sept 27, CMC - A captain of the Belize Defence Force (BDF), who was awaiting trial for violating a restraining order, has been found dead in his cell. Captain Damacio Coc, 33, was found hanging from a bed sheet inside his...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- A Spanish judge on Tuesday approved a trial for Colombian pop singer Shakira on charges of tax fraud. Spanish prosecutors accused the entertainer in 2018 of failing to pay 14.5 million euros ($13.9 million) in taxes on...

HAVANA (AP) -- Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba on Tuesday as a major hurricane, with nothing to stop it from intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 storm before it crashes ashore Wednesday in Florida, where officials ordered 2.5...

Assistant Commissioner of Police Gary McKenzie, who is head of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch, said that the police are investigating the matter in which two men tried to break the locks of the floodgates that lead to the Bog...

Growing up, life was never easy for Danielle Jathan and there were days, while she was attending Campion College in St Andrew, that her parents could only find half of the bus fare. On even more dire occasions, the Waterhouse, St Andrew, native......

The tears streamed down the face of Victoria 'Claudette' Gylard as she peered through her dilapidated shack on Wildman Street, central Kingston, yesterday. Her clothes were damp from bailing buckets of water from her bedroom. Heavy rains lashing....

"Is cook I was just going to cook, enuh," centenarian Myrtle Smith told THE STAR team as she flashed a wide and welcoming grin. Yesterday, the rain had just subsided and Smith, who is 102, had spent a great portion of her morning sweeping and...

The Cabinet has approved the appointment of a seven-member fact-finding team to conduct investigations into the working conditions of Jamaican workers under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers (farm work) Programme. The team will be...

On Cemetery Road in Denbigh, May Pen, where heavy foot and vehicular traffic are the norm, Crab Mondays HQ, a community bar, challenges the status quo by infusing life into the surroundings with tasty food, drinks, and good times. Dave Francis,......

D-O-D-E-C-A-H-E-D-R-O-N. A dodecahedron is a three-dimensional figure having 12 faces that are pentagonal in shape. It was the winning word spelled by 72-year-old Olga Williams, of St Mary, to win the National Council for Senior Citizens 18th...

Twenty-one-year old Peter Haynes speaks seven languages. The Portland native is proficient in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese. He said that some of the languages he speaks were introduced to him through books. "I....

Jamaica has confirmed its 14th case of the the monkeypox virus on the island. The patient is from Kingston and St Andrew. Overall, 13 males have been confirmed with the disease, Health Ministry data shows. Only two cases are imported.

In a release today, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) announced that all Manning Cup matches slated for Tuesday September 27 has been postponed due to the severe weather conditions caused by Hurricane Ian. Three of Tuesday's...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says its teams are working to restore power in several parishes several including Clarendon, as well as St Catherine, Manchester and St Thomas. However, JPS also says that as it moves to...

The police have confirmed that the man who was caught on CCTV footage robbing a Cool Oasis service station in St James has been arrested. He has been identified as 25-year-old Akeem Bailey, otherwise called 'Stamma' of Albion Lane...