A two-week gun amnesty will take effect on Saturday, November 5, following the approval of the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) (Firearms Amnesty) Order 2022 by the Senate, today (November 4). The amnesty is slated to end midnight....

According to authorities, actor and Reggae artiste Kymani Marley, was arrested yesterday by the Pembroke Pines Police Department in Florida for driving on a suspended license. Carey Codd, Senior Public Information Officer at the Broward ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the social platform. The company had told employees by email that they would find out by 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) if they had been laid off. The email...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov 4, CMC - The National Public Health Laboratory has commenced preparing samples to be sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for PCR testing to detect the presence of the potentially serious Respiratory...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Nov 4, CMC - Police in Haiti say they have taken control of the country's main fuel terminal that had been held by criminal gangs since September, leading to a government announcement that fuel distribution will...

The bodies of two men were discovered inside a house that was destroyed by a fire in Hendon, Norwood in St James on Friday morning. The identities of the men have yet to be determined. According to reports, the fire was seen coming from the...

A vehicle collision along the Melrose Hill Bypass in Manchester has left at least three persons dead, and 17 others injured. Emergency responders are on the scene providing aid now. Eye witnesses say a Toyota Wish operating as a taxi was...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grevy's zebras, have died in Kenyan widlife preserves during East Africa's worst drought in decades, according to a report released Friday. The Kenya...

A St Andrew man was hospitalised after he was shot multiple times along Fitzgerald avenue (located off Maxfield Avenue) in the parish earlier today. He was reportedly shot by masked men on foot.

Members of the police have cordoned off a section of South Camp Road in Kingston, where a drive-by shooting occurred earlier today in the vicinity of Alpha Primary School. Motorist are advised to use alternative roads. There are currently no...

On a regular Thursday evening while the city slowed to a sleep below the poolside at the ROK hotel in downtown Kingston, music legend Buju Banton, alongside a star-studded list of invited guests, urged the public to prepare to get intimate on...

Amoya McLeish, a 29-year-old mother of three in Oxford, Manchester could not hold back her tears as she shared how she has to live in a converted fowl coop, and was desperate to have a proper roof over her head. After she shared her story on the.....

A post-mortem conducted on the body of Keila Bryce, the 29-year-old woman who died under questionable circumstances in Franklyn Town, Kingston, has revealed she was never shot. When Bryce died on October 11, relatives said they were told she was.....

APOLOGY In a story titled 'FAKE NEWS - Spice's booking agent denies the artiste was in a coma', which was published in THE STAR on Thursday, November 3, on Page 10, a company that offers cosmetic surgeries was incorrectly linked to the alleged......

Late Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Wellness said it had received a report of the discovery of a deceased foetus in the sewer at the Kingston Public Hospital. According to preliminary information received, the foetus was discovered by a man....

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has been cracking down on violators of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) after seizing several birds in St Ann in recent weeks. The most recent seizure occurred in White River, St Ann, on...

Traumatised by the ongoing violence in her community, Sharon* had her eyes patrolling the movement of every object around her, leaving nothing to chance as a deadly gang war plays out in the east Kingston community. The conditions have become so....

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the government might have to create "additional rooms" in the penal system to house people convicted of firearm-related offences. The penalties under the new law, which came into effect on November....

A man who pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining a passport, told the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday that he committed the act because he wanted to flee the island due to the high level of crime. For the last 25 years Jamaica....

A 19-year-old woman will have to repay $90,000 that she stole from her employer, which she said she used to purchase groceries. Abby Walters pleaded guilty to larceny as a servant on Thursday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The...