Jamaica Star
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:39:33 -0500Cell phone access granted in Gabriel King case
Amoi Leon Issa, mother of the deceased nine-year-old Gabriel King, has been ordered by the St James Parish Court to give the police access to her cell phone as part of the probe into her son's murder. She is expected to hand over access no...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:13:31 -0500Teenager found with gun granted bail
Trevaughn Whitfield, the teen who was reportedly held with a loaded gun along Red Hills Road in St Andrew, was today granted $150,000 bail. Whitfield says the weapon belongs to entertainer Lougie Hamilton, who had sent the teen for the gun in the......
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:09:48 -0500Portland native dies in motor vehicle crash
Andre Jones, a resident of Windsor Castle in Portland, was pronounced dead at the Annotto Bay Hospital on Thursday night, after he succumbed to major injuries he received from a motor vehicle collision.
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:50:50 -0500Canadian accused of plotting to overthrow Haiti government
QUEBEC, Canada, Nov 17, CMC - Canada's federal police force announced Thursday that a 51-year-old Quebec resident has been charged with terrorism in connection with his alleged plot to overthrow the Haitian government back...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:48:15 -0500Hoteliers worried that low airlift could affect industry
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov 18, CMC - Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Renee Coppin, says while hoteliers are expecting a favourable winter period due to pent-up travel demand, they are worried that it will not...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:23:31 -0500More Twitter workers flee after Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum
Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to "extremely hardcore" work or resign with severance pay. While it's not clear exactly how many of...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:18:23 -0500Qatar bans sale of beer at World Cup stadiums in about-face
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal the conservative Muslim emirate made to secure the soccer tournament with only two days to go before the opening game. The...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:47:43 -0500Major St Ann crash leaves one dead, 20 injured
One man is dead, and 20 other persons were injured following a vehicular crash along the Laughlands main road in St Ann, Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as Alwayne Smith, also called Big League, from of Steer Town in St Ann. The...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:45 -0500Crash leaves woman with British accent - MoBay native no longer understands some Jamaican slangs
Deana-Rae Clayton has been speaking with a British accent since July 2019. The Montego Bay, St James, native, who has never travelled to the European country, has been using the foreign tongue since she woke up from a coma following a motor...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:47 -0500Slow down, crash survivor begs
Crash survivor Deana-Rae Clayton has appealed to motorists to exercise greater care on the nation's roads. Clayton, 36, has spent the last few months learning to walk again after being seriously hurt in a crash four years ago. "We need to take.....
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:36 -0500Unofficial lifeguard saving lives at Kingston waterfront
Although he is not formally trained in giving first aid assistance, Kimmarlie Dwyer, 26, has given CPR and saved several persons who attempted suicide by the waterfront in downtown Kingston. A fisherman by profession, the Fletcher's Land,...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:47 -0500Man says he was beaten by soldiers
A 23-year-old security guard on Thursday alleged that he was gun-butted several times by three members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) in the St Andrew South Police Division. A visibly-shaken Joe*, and his mother Sharon*, turned up at THE...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:32 -0500Homeless men find use for abandoned Water Lane transport centre
In the five years since he has made the compound of the Downtown Municipal Transport Centre at Water Lane in downtown Kingston his home, Trevor said he has never seen a taxi parked there. Built in 2011, specifically for taxi operators to use,...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:40 -0500Security guard robs senior citizen
A security guard who assisted a senior citizen using an automated teller machine pleaded guilty to stealing almost $200,000 from her account. It was shared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court that on October 25, Charles White, who was...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:40 -0500Fight over woman leads to broken dentures
A dispute between two male co-workers, reportedly over a woman, left one of them with broken dentures. Orlando Orr pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property and unlawful wounding on Thursday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.....
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:43 -0500Breakaways in St Ann South West to be fixed
Jamaica's de facto works minister, Everald Warmington, said that breakaways and defective bridges in the constituency of St Ann South West will be addressed immediately. The minister made the commitment during a tour of the constituency on...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:50 -0500NIDS national roll-out set for second quarter 2023
The Government is looking towards the national roll-out of the new National Identification System (NIDS) in the second quarter of 2023, following the completion of a pilot programme in December. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:49 -0500More support for schools in volatile areas
The Ministry of Education and Youth's Inter-Ministerial 25/34 schools strategy is to be used as a prototype for working with institutions located in areas deemed volatile. This was disclosed by Acting Director of the Ministry's Safety and...
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:41 -0500World’s largest cruise ship to call on Falmouth
The impending inaugural visit to Jamaica by the world's largest cruise ship, the 'Wonder of the Seas', has heightened local stakeholders' optimism about the prospect of a positive 2022/23 winter tourist season, especially for cruise shipping....
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:02:39 -0500QUESTION: Which team will win football’s biggest prize?
The flags are out and the vuvuzelas are being primed as football fans eagerly await Sunday's start of the greatest show on Earth. Amid the excitement, THE WEEKEND STAR took to the streets and asked members of the public which team will win football....