Jamaica Star
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:05:04 -0500JCF apologises for mistakenly identifying innocent man as wanted criminal
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has issued an apology to Alando Gray, a 26-year-old construction worker who was mistakenly identified as a wanted individual. On Wednesday, TVJ News reported that Gray was working with his father in...
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:43:23 -0500Man pleads guilty to causing death in traffic accident four years ago
Twenty-five-year-old Akeel Gordon, who caused a traffic accident in Portmore, St Catherine, four years ago, pleaded guilty regarding the death of his passenger in the Circuit Court yesterday. When Gordon appeared before Justice Dale Palmer he...
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:55:53 -0500Vendor shot dead at Old Harbour High School Gate
The police in Old Harbour, St Catherine are currently seeking to identify those responsible for the murder of a vendor at the entrance of Old Harbour High School yesterday. Dead is Orville Bloomfield otherwise called 'Bloodstain', a 49-year-old.....
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:01:04 -0500‘He was my baby’ - Heartbreak after 11-year-old dies in hit-and-run
On Monday morning, Shaneka Ewart wrestled with a quiet, nagging doubt about whether she should send her 11-year-old son, Duryan McKenzie, back to school. He had just recovered from the flu after being out for two weeks, and she wasn't sure he was.....
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:01:03 -0500No more autopsies under banana trees - Jamaica opens state-of-the-art forensic facility
For the first time since the 1970s, Jamaica has a purpose-built, state-owned forensic autopsy suite, a critical piece of infrastructure that Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says will break the long-standing delays in autopsy reports.....
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:00:42 -0500Would you ride in a driverless taxi?
As Uber gears up to unleash its futuristic driverless taxis in London by 2026, Jamaicans are already picturing what it would be like to hop into a ride with no driver, just pure tech behind the wheel. For 68-year-old Vera Johnson, she's ready to.....
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:00:59 -0500Veteran fisherman warns colleagues to be smart
With the Atlantic hurricane season now under way, fishermen along the southeast coast of St Elizabeth are bracing for what could be another rough stretch of high winds and heavy losses. But seasoned fisherman Kenroy 'Ken Dog' Trenchfield is...
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:01:09 -0500Child labour not going away, advocate warns
Despite legal protections and advocacy, Priscillia Duhaney, spokesperson for Hear The Children's Cry, says child labour is not going away, it's simply "changing form". "As technology increases and becomes more accessible to youth, they are...
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:01:00 -0500Couple charged with sexual assault of teen
A community barber and a local cosmetologist have been hit with a laundry list of jaw-dropping charges tied to allegations of a sickening child abuse scandal that reportedly unfolded in a quiet St Mary community sometime in June and July 2023....
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:32:03 -0500Woman allegedly uses food container to smuggle contrabands into Annotto Bay lock-up
The St Mary police have arrested 43-year-old Tavia Whitely for allegedly attempting to smuggle prohibited substances into the Annotto Bay police lock-up on Wednesday. Whitely is a businesswoman of Annotto Bay in the parish. She has since been....
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:46:04 -0500Woman allegedly uses acid to kill boyfriend and injure his son
A St Andrew woman has been arrested following an alleged acid attack that killed her boyfriend and left his son hospitalised. Dead is 40-year-old sales representative, Christopher Clarke, while his son is nursing burns to his face, left eye, and....
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:22:04 -0500St Mary man charged with alleged rape of minor with girlfriend's aid
A court date is being arranged for a St Mary couple in which the boyfriend is accused of raping a minor over a two-day period with the girlfriend's aid two years ago. Accused are 32-year-old barber Antony Berry, otherwise known as 'Zeeks', and......
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:58:04 -0500Three alleged gunmen killed in confrontation with cops in St Ann
Three men are dead and two illegal firearms seized after an alleged confrontation with police in Back Street, St Ann on Wednesday. Among the deceased is 38-year-old Dickie Bonnick of Runaway Bay, St Ann. Reports are that about 8:50 p.m. the...
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:41:04 -0500Taxi driver 'Turboman' shot multiple times, dies at hospital
The murder of a taxi driver who was shot in his car at the Naggo Head Transportation Center on Wednesday and died in hospital is being investigated by St Catherine police. He has been identified as 44-year-old Winston Williams, otherwise called.....
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:10:53 -0500Taxi man charged with allegedly punching man in face, leaving him with bloody lip
Keith Davis, a taxi operator from Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine has been charged for allegedly punching a man in the face leaving him with a bloody lip. Davis, 40, was formally charged by the St Catherine North Criminal...
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:50:54 -0500Two women arrested in connection with St Catherine robberies
Two women who are suspected of being involved in a string of robberies in St Catherine and an illegal firearm found in one of their homes were taken into custody by the St Andrew Central police on Wednesday. Reports say that about 9:oo p.m., ,......
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:00:51 -0500Back on her feet! - JLP supporter gets prosthetic leg after crushing blow on campaign trail
After enduring a horrifying campaign trail accident that left her left leg severed and parts of her right foot mangled, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporter Dalvarine Bruce Pearce is again standing tall. The Mount George, Yallahs, St Thomas,...
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:00:52 -0500Bull Bay craftsman turns animal skin into fashion
People often stop Milton Bonner and ask where he got his 'Clarks,' but the shoes on his feet - firm, stitched, and fitted with care - weren't bought; he made them himself. "They don't realise it's my own work," he told THE STAR, holding up a...
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:00:41 -0500Sandy Gully overgrowth concerns residents
Sections of the Sandy Gully in Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11, could be easily mistaken for a densely forested area. Enormous trees, as well as overgrown shrubs with mountains of silt have blocked the free flow of water. The residents said that,......
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:24:53 -0500Three men fatally shot during alleged confrontation with cops
The deaths of three men who were shot by police after an alleged altercation on Wednesday are being investigated by the Independent Commission of Investigations. The police say two loaded guns, including an AK-47 rifle, were seized. It is...