A man who proposed to his girlfriend in court in January as he answered to charges of assaulting her, is now in lock-up. On January 21, Andre Chantiloupe proposed to Neisha Morrison, moments after he was called to defend himself against the...

Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has announced an adjustment to the two-week ban on burials currently in force, to allow for the disposal of human remains in specially-prescribed circumstances. Approval has been given for: the burial......

Fifty-nine-year-old ice cream vendor Orville Gordon believes that the COVID-19 pandemic is a manifestation of God's wrath. "This is God's wrath upon the land and unless the people repent and change from wickedness, this will continue to rise,"...

Relatives of Roy Smith, 62, who died in a motor vehicle crash in St Elizabeth on Saturday, have been left devastated and in a state of disbelief. Smith's daughter, Ashley, told THE STAR that her mother is especially taking it very hard. "It is......

Without second-guessing, Shamaldo Robinson said he knew from age 14 that he had found his future wife. Shamaldo, who is now a firefighter, was in eighth grade at Claude McKay High School in Clarendon at the time. He recalled seeing a light-...

Relatives of Dorothy Brown are now breathing a huge sigh of relief after the 71-year-old matriarch was found alive and unharmed at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). "My husband can go to bed now. For the last couple of weeks it has been hard...

LONDON (AP) -- Facebook is adding informational labels to posts about vaccines as it expands efforts to counter COVID-19-related misinformation flourishing on its platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post Monday that labels will...

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. health agency said its global rollout of coronavirus vaccines remains unaffected even as a growing number of countries, especially in Europe, suspended use of AstraZeneca's vaccine on Monday amid concerns about...

Fourteen wards, and 15 members of staff at the Hilltop Juvenile Correctional Centre in Bamboo, St Ann have tested positive for COVID-19 within the last 24 hours. According to the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), as a result of the 29 new....

(AP) - Across the United States, air travel is recovering more quickly from the depths of the pandemic, and it is showing up in longer airport security lines and busier traffic on airline websites. The Transportation Security Administration...

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) - Tourist arrivals to the Caribbean fell by 65.5 per cent in 2020, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), but it is forecasting a turnaround this year. In a statement released on Monday, the CTO said...

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) -- Barbados' commercial and retail sectors, including restaurants and bars, are set to reopen today, while the daily curfew has been shortened, as Government relaxes COVID-19 restrictions. Prime Minister Mia...

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany, France and Italy on Monday became the latest countries to suspend use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients, though the company and European regulators have...

Police in St Thomas are probing the circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of a senior citizen who was found along a dirt track in the parish on Friday. The deceased has been identified as 69-year-old Oliver Brown, otherwise called...

State Minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness and Member of Parliament for St Andrew West Rural, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, has tested positive for COVID-19. The state minister confirmed her positive result in a tweet this morning where she...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded 806 positive COVID-19 results from a sample of 2,055 tests, pushing total confirmed cases over the 31,000 mark at 31,305 with 15,325 active. Of the new cases, 366 are males and 440 are females, with ages ranging...

Late reggae icon Toots Hibbert has won the 2021 Grammy for Best Reggae Album, for his last work with The Maytals 'Got To Be Tough' which was released just days before he passed away on September 11, 2020. Toots and the Maytals last won a...

Five men were arrested in connection with a major drug bust in Westmoreland following a joint police/military operation on Saturday.  Members of the Narcotics Division, the St. James Operations Support Unit and the military,...

(AP) - One of the great middleweights in boxing history, Marvelous Marvin Hagler died Saturday at the age of 66. His wife, Kay, announced his death on the Facebook page for Hagler's fans. "I am sorry to make a very sad announcement,...

The Government says it is in the process of updating the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Act to effectively combat human trafficking. The TIP Act was enacted in 2007 to prescribe measures to prevent and combat trafficking in persons. It was updated in....