Dancehall superstar André Sutherland, more popularly known as Popcaan, is to answer to multiple breaches of the Road Traffic Act following an encounter with the St Thomas police on Sunday afternoon. Reports are that the police, acting on...

Jamaica has received another 55,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX medical facility. The vaccines arrived at the Norman Manley International airport a short while ago. This is the fourth shipment of vaccines for...

Dancehall artiste Popcaan says he is now contemplating moving his Unruly Fest event from his home parish of St Thomas. This comes on the heels of a report that the artiste is to appear in court on June 3 to answer to multiple breaches of the Road......

In response to Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves' international call for humanitarian assistance, the Government of Canada has pledged CAD$440,000 (US$354,794) in immediate aid to assist Vincentians in their immediate response to the volcanic...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for...

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) -- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Monday urged countries to close the immunisation gap that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children missing vaccinations last year, due in part to the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Caribbean Airlines is collaborating with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Regional Traveller Health Programme to promote healthy, safer tourism, as the region opens to tourism during the...

BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts is getting about 4,000 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week, and several pharmacy chains are expected to resume administering the shot this week after the federal government lifted its...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 141. The deceased is an 53-year-old female from Westmoreland whose death was previously under investigation. Meanwhile, there were 141 new cases with ages ranging from two...

Detectives assigned to the St Andrew South Police Division are searching for men posing as a taxi drivers and passengers who raped and robbed a woman and then robbed other women, using the first victim as bait. The first incident, according to...

It was sheer excitement at the Carib Cement Company dock last Saturday as Mark Watson reeled in his fishing line as he and other fishers were anxious to see what was clinging to his bait. THE STAR team was just in time to capture the moment as.....

President of the Chiney Beach Fisherfolk Friendly Society in Kingston, Stanford Hamilton, is commending the latest agreement with the Windward Development Company that has granted a 100-year lease to the fishermen on the property. The...

Head of the police's Corporate Communications Unit, Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, says that a high-level investigation is under way into the origin of a photo that involves persons, allegedly police personnel, toting firearms. Although....

Oshane Dunstan has been receiving more than his fair share of attention since he was first featured in THE STAR a few weeks ago. Dunstan, who makes small cars, has been receiving numerous offers of assistance with many impressed by his talent and....

Investigators in Hanover are searching for a man who has been accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl last week. Information reaching THE STAR is that the complainant was sent to a relative's house to use the Internet for online school.....

Having read the heart-rending story of St Catherine man Robert Grant, who is living with cerebral palsy, nurse Abbigale Hunt was moved to respond. Hunt said her mother showed her a copy of THE WEEKEND STAR in which Grant and his mother Charmaine.....

Donice Creary is a dog lover and she has turned this love into a business. Since January, Creary and her friend, Nailah Bishop, have been offering sitting services at their home in St Andrew. "We will keep them as long as the parents of the...

Come September, Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) student Udrick Tingle will be returning to school hassle free after donors saw his story and came to his rescue. Tingle, who was in a predicament to complete his degree due to an outstanding...

Kingstown, St Vincent (CMC)-- Seismic activity at the La Soufriere volcano has remained low since the tremor associated with the explosion and ash venting two days ago, with the scientists monitoring the volcano indicating that over the...

MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish man with COVID-19 symptoms who coughed on work colleagues and told them "I'm going to give you all the coronavirus" has been charged with intentionally causing injury after allegedly infecting 22...