Tragedy unfolded at sea on Friday after a group of Jamaican and Dominican fishermen were forced to abandon their vessel when it caught fire off Portland Point in Clarendon. Sixteen men were rescued by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes endorsed the inclusion of youth today as scores of students from various schools across St Catherine converged on the courthouse in Spanish Town this morning, October 10, 2025. Sykes informed the students about the laws....

An online dispute broke out between a People's National Party activist and a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor over a complaint the Integrity Commission had suggested be brought against the local government representative for neglecting to...

A one-year-old baby was fatally stabbed during a domestic dispute in Cocobiacoweg, on the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, Thursday night. Police say they received a report that a man armed with a knife was assaulting his wife and children....

A St James man has been charged in connection with a group attack that left another man nursing serious wounds in Bamboo Lawn, Lilliput, earlier this year. Charged with wounding with intent is 30-year-old Duran Adlam of Ocean Heights, Lilliput,.....

When Shanea Bailey walked across the graduation stage at The University of the West Indies in 2019, she carried with her not just a degree in medicine, but a lifetime of perseverance and faith. Her journey -- one defined by courage, blindness, and....

More than 40 years after being abandoned as a baby and placed for adoption, Tamara Ebanks finally met the woman who gave birth to her, Angela Housen Mattis. But she still does not know who is her father. Raised in the Cayman Islands by a couple.....

The narrow road to Stony Gut, St Thomas, winds through quiet bushland and fading markers of memory. The birthplace of National Hero Paul Bogle feels forgotten, its stones overrun by weeds. But for Constantine Bogle, 62, the great-great-grandson.....

Tanya Smart has forgotten what peace feels like. She doesn't remember the last time she closed her eyes and slept through the night. She lost that privilege years ago when her 17-year-old autistic son, Daniel, began staying up through the nights,.....

A police operation across two St Catherine divisions on Thursday left two men dead and two illegal guns off the streets, as the police ramp up their investigation into last weekend's massacre in Commodore, Linstead. The shooting claimed five...

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A 22-year-old construction worker has been charged after allegedly using his gun to beat and threaten a man during a heated encounter on Upper Regent Street in Kingston earlier this week. The accused, Andre Bushay, of Race Course Lane, Kingston.....

Two men were gunned down and a high-powered M16 rifle seized during two early morning police operations in St Catherine on Thursday, both linked to the mass shooting in Commodore, Linstead that left five people dead and four others injured. The.....

The death of a man whose body was discovered in his Kitson Town yard on Wednesday is being looked into by the St. Catherine police. He is 55-year-old merchandiser Andrew Nelson of Mary's Field in the area. The police say suicide is suspected......

According to reports, a 74-year-old man died Thursday morning in a fire at the Gallery Apartment in New Kingston. Several apartments were damaged by the early morning inferno. Firefighters were called to the apartment located on Oxford Road...

As detectives combed the scene of Tuesday night's drive-by shooting on Text Lane in Central Kingston -- which left six people, including two minors and a disabled youth, nursing gunshot wounds -- Betty* stood silently at the corner, trembling with....

When a staff member at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) saw two minors with gunshot wounds being wheeled into the emergency room on Tuesday night, chills ran down her spine. Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, she recalled how one of the....

A single mother in Manchester says her life has become a nightmare, as a man has been stalking her for six long years, making life difficult for her and her daughter. "You ever hear some people say they're living on the edge? That's how I'm...

Twenty-nine-year-old Shamar Barnes, otherwise called 'Tanso', a farmer of Lititz district, St Elizabeth, has been charged with murder and wounding with intent following an incident in Mount Pleasant district, in the parish on September 20. The...

A 15-year-old boy of Lucea, Hanover, has been charged with housebreaking and larceny following an incident at a school in another district, on September 22. Reports from the Lucea police are that at 8 p.m., a woman securely locked the...