Reuben Williams, a local obeah man, said he is calling on popular clergyman Reverend Mark Stewart to conduct a seven-day march on the 'haunted' Flat Bridge. Williams told THE STAR that he saw the need for the march following the recent deaths of....

The Sandy Bay police in Hanover have commenced an investigation to determine how a man who went missing from his home in Cacoon Castle on Sunday night ended up floating lifelessly in a water hole in the community on Tuesday morning. The deceased.....

David Pinto did pottery as an extracurricular activity while attending high school in England, but decades later, the passion has not died. Pinto, who was born in Jamaica, admits that after completing his degree in industrial design at the Rhode.....

More than 50 youths from some of Jamaica's toughest inner-city communities are currently being trained to become drivers of articulated trucks. National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang said that the programme is among the initiatives being...

Ivy Allen is a polished woman, and upon seeing THE STAR team at her 105th birthday celebration yesterday, she adjusted her wig, fixed her skirt suit, and posed for pictures. "Everybody come look fi mi but nobody come give mi nutten fi mi birthday....

Newly appointed president of the Kingston Craft Market, Lenna Cunningham, says her association will be seeking to engage businesses along Ocean Boulevard in downtown Kingston with the hope of driving sales towards the customer-shy arcade. "We are....

Five members of the Hayes Police Youth Club in Clarendon were among nine passengers involved in Saturday night's crash, which has sparked controversy and protests. Three members, 17-year-olds Janoy Blair and Dante Johnson, and 20-year-old...

Veronick Bell, a 43-year-old mother of three, has been battling cancer for almost two years, after being diagnosed in 2019. She has done surgeries to remove her breasts, but her medical woes continue. One of her kidneys is now producing excess...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities detained 14 migrants who were travelling in a boat that came ashore hitting a sea wall in South Florida on Thursday. WPLG-TV reports the migrants were coming from Jamaica and had first travelled to The...

LONDON (AP) -- The U.K.'s latest surge in coronavirus infections gathered pace Thursday with new confirmed cases rising above 10,000 for the first time in nearly four months as a result of the spread of the more contagious delta variant...

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC)-- Barbados estimates that the coronavirus pandemic has set back tourism-dependent countries by as much as 20 years and is calling for natural disaster clauses to be written into agreements between small island...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is devoting $3.2 billion to advance development of antiviral pills for COVID-19 and other dangerous viruses that could turn into pandemics. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 11 COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 1,023. Nine of the deceased are from the parish of St James and were previously under investigation, they include six men aged 84, 84, 80, 77, 68 and 60, and three women.....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court dismissed a major challenge to the Obama era health care law on Thursday, turning aside an effort by Republican-led states to throw out the law that provides insurance coverage for millions of Americans....

The Government has allocated another $300 million for irrigation wells in Parnassus, Clarendon to benefit farmers. The disclosure was made by Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett while closing the 2021/22 Sectoral Debate in the House of...

The Government is still on track to provide 70,000 affordable housing solutions for Jamaicans within the next five years. This assurance comes from Minister of Tourism and Leader of Government Business in the House of Representatives, Edmund...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be placing sickle cell coordinators at public health facilities across Jamaica who will be charged with providing support for paediatric patients. National Coordinator for the Sickle Cell Programme at the...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- A Tennessee doctor has been reprimanded for removing five doses of the coronavirus vaccine without authorisation and giving them to family and a friend, officials said. Claude F. Varner Jr., who had volunteered to...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union is recommending that its 27 member countries start lifting restrictions on tourists from the United States. EU members agreed Wednesday to add the US to the list of countries for which they should gradually...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - The St.Kitts-Nevis government has declared a state of emergency as the twin-island Federation grapples with an increase in the number of coronavirus (COVOD-19) cases in decent days. A government statement said...