The police in St Thomas are probing a gun attack on Saturday that left one man dead. He has been identified as 52-year-old Anthony Manhertz of Race Course district in Clarendon. Reports are that about 3:30 p.m., Manhertz visited the home of a woman....

LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks, until July 19, as a result of the spread of the delta variant. In a...

Detectives assigned to the Clarendon Police Division have arrested and charged a man for wounding with intent following an incident along Rock in Hazard Drive, May Pen on Friday, January 01. Charged is 32-year-old Ricordo McKenzie otherwise called.....

The Trelawny Municipal Corporation is to undertake major drain cleaning activities across the parish's nine divisions, as it activates its disaster preparedness plans for the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The period runs from June 1 to...

The National Works Agency (NWA) says repair works have begun to the road through the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine. The works commenced last the weekend and is slated to last for six weeks. The stretch, which forms part of one of the main...

A lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die. Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, said he was about 45ft deep in the waters off...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Guyana's main transgender group on Monday welcomed plans by the parliament to rescind a law against cross-dressing, saying it has been the source of decades of police and state harassment. Lawmakers in the...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A 5.0 earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic on Monday. The quake occurred at a depth of 54 miles (87 kilometers) and was felt in the Dominican Republic and parts of Puerto Rico. No...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jun 14 - The Barbados government has warned employers that workers cannot be dismissed for failing to take the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. Labour and Social Partnership Relations Minister, Colin Jordan, said workers...

NASSAU, Bahamas, Jun 14, CMC - Bahamian authorities Monday confirmed that two Haitian migrants drowned and eight others, including a baby, had been rescued after their boat capsized in waters off Memory Rock, Grand Bahama, last Friday....

The police say they have seized one Glock pistol and twenty-six rounds of ammunition during targeted raids in Banon Gully, Constant Spring on Sunday, June 13. One man was arrested in connection with the seizure. According to reports from the...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting that Jamaica has recorded 14 more COVID-19 deaths, hiking the tally to 1,011. The Ministry notes that the fatalities occurred between January 27 and June 12. The deceased are: A 57-year-old ale from.....

A third person has died from injuries sustained in the Saturday night car crash in Hayes, Clarendon. He is seventeen-year-old Dante Johnson, a fifth-form student at Vere Technical High in the parish. Johnson died last night at the Kingston Public......

Vaccine maker Novavax said Monday its COVID-19 shot was highly effective against the disease and also protected against variants in a large study in the U.S. and Mexico, potentially offering the world yet another weapon against the virus at a time.....

A man lost his life in a most bizarre manner yesterday after he was reportedly attacked and killed by his bull in New Mills, Hanover. Police said that the man, Audley Walker, also called Maxwell, 59, a farmer and baker of New Mills, left his home....

Marvalee Thomas,a 35-year-old mother of nine, is imploring women not to make her mistake by having children she cannot afford to take care of. Thomas told THE STAR that she lives in a pitiful state in a dilapidated one-room house in Frankfield,......

The employee of a wrecking company was forced to abort plans to take a Honda Accord motor car after a pit bull was unleashed on him. The incident reportedly occurred in a St Catherine community where a bailiff went to repossess a motor car on...

Rayon Williams is dying to get his life back on track. The 31-year-old has been in a hospital bed for the past 14 months - after being involved in a motor vehicle crash - and there is no telling when he might be back on his feet again. Williams,.....

When Jermaine Scott told two divers who rescued him from the Rio Cobre after his car fell off Flat Bridge, that he would return to show his gratitude, they brushed aside his promise. They have heard similar pronouncements but have never seen them....

Kedine Wilson-Blair has been in great distress for the past three months. Her 16-year-old son, Ne-Sean Blair, who was shot on his birthday, requires a life-changing surgery, which may be able to reverse his paralysis that is the result of a...