Operations at Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) ground to a halt yesterday as more than 1,000 workers walked off the job in a bitter dispute over union representation.

Volunteers participating in this year’s International Coastal Cleanup collected 32,831 pieces of waste, including 7,164 plastic beverage bottles, 6,248 bottle caps and 4,005 plastic bags.

Food handlers in Jamaica could soon be required to renew their permits every two years instead of annually, following Cabinet’s approval of amendments aimed at modernising the country’s food handlers permit regime.

Walking through the streets of China in August 2025, 19-year-old Carmelo Onfroy found himself paying less attention to the food and more to the people.

Two social media personalities say women should not have to tell their partners about every body enhancement they undergo, particularly when they are footing the bill themselves.

Kennedy Lawrence was not looking for cancer when he discovered a lump in his wife’s breast.

As she welcomes THE WEEKEND STAR team to her Lluidas Vale, St Catherine, home, talented musician and model Israel Harrison flashes a bright and welcoming smile.

In a major shift in how public-order breaches are handled, the Government is preparing to roll out a new ticketing system designed to crack down on offences while reducing the confrontations that have long erupted during enforcement operations.

A St Ann businesswoman who was already in police custody has been hit with a fresh set of fraud charges stemming from an alleged US work-and-travel scam that reportedly cost three people thousands of dollars.

A 63-year-old businessman allegedly shot another businessman, wounded a Rottweiler and then opened fire on police from inside a container before he was shot dead by responding officers in Harbour View, Kingston, yesterday.

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, officially opened the Tensie Mae Robinson (TMR) Medical Limited in Portmore, St Catherine, on Wednesday (October 7).

(AP): Christa Pike was “angry and confused” in the hours after regaining consciousness following Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, first asking, “Where am I?” her lawyer said on Wednesday.

S Hotel Montego Bay has emerged as the highest-ranked Caribbean property in the 2026 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, securing second place overall in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Central America category.

When Jeanette Moore received the dreadful news from her oncologist that she had stage 2 breast cancer, she immediately called her loved ones and told them she was on the brink of death.

Last month, Noel Bell was scheduled to sit down with THE STAR to discuss what it is like living with sickle cell disease. Instead, he ended up in hospital.

A man who reportedly shot another man and the man’s dog was shot dead by police in a reported confrontation on Tuesday.