Tiffany Taylor STAR Writer The latest social media challenge is crushing all the fun, leaving its participants seriously injured. It's called the milk crate challenge, where persons are tasked with climbing wobbly crates that are stacked as a...

A woman in Belgium has reportedly been banned from a zoo, after she confessed to having an 'affair' with a chimpanzee. Reports are that Adie Timmermans had been visiting Chita, a 38-year-old chimpanzee, each week for the past four...

One single action browning pistol was handed over to the police by residents in Adelphi, St James on Monday, during a communitry patrol.  Reports are that about 10:30 p.m., cops were on patrol along the Adelphi main road...

A St Catherine man has been arrested and charged for stabbing his stepson to death during a fight at their home on Thurday, August 12. The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old Shawn Wynter. Charged with murder is 33-year...

Six persons were arrested and charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), and 13 others warned for similar breaches in the St Catherine South police division between Sunday and Monday, following operations aimed at...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)-- Barbados health officials have denied reports that a woman collapsed and died last weekend after receiving her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. In a statement, Barbados' Ministry of...

Jamaica on Monday recorded 752 new COVID-19 cases from 1,751 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 63,464 with 13,820 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 48.7%. Of the new...

ROXROY MCLEAN STAR Writer Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan says that Vybz Kartel and other dancehall entertainers should be considered by the Government as key messengers in the drive to get Jamaicans vaccinated against the novel coronavirus....

Tiffany Taylor STAR Writer At a time when Jamaica's two main political parties have joined forces to get persons vaccinated against COVID-19, a third party has been pounding the pavement in a bid to prevent the State from forcing people to take...

Simone Morgan-Lindo STAR Writer Cathlyn will never forget how her daughter, Paula Raphael, shouted for her seconds before her life was snuffed out on Unity Lane in Rose Town, Kingston 13, on Sunday morning. Raphael, who celebrated her 56th...

The family of St Mary resident Leroy Gray is pleading for help in bringing him home in time for his birthday. Gray is a 55-year-old resident of the Fairfield community in the parish who suffers from early-onset dementia. Gray's caretaker Meshoy.....

Jamaica on Sunday reported a record 879 new COVID-19 cases from 2,710 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 62,712 with 13,140 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 43.9%. Of the new cases, 509 are...

Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton has confirmed that the first shipment of the single- dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is scheduled to arrive in Jamaica tonight. Tufton confirmed tonight's expected arrival...

Bauxite company Jamalco says its refinery in Halse Hall, Clarendon has been extensively damaged after a major fire broke out at the plant's powerhouse on Sunday. Reports are that the fire began ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, officials said Monday as the nation's largest school system prepares for classes to start next month. The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, a milestone that may help lift public confidence in the shots as the nation battles the most contagious coronavirus mutant yet. The vaccine made by...

Simone Morgan-Lindo STAR Writer "Miss, dem say is no movement day, suh mi sit down here suh and naah move," a homeless man said as he sat on the piazza of a business place in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, observing the near stillness around him. The......

Simone Morgan-Lindo STAR Writer The absence of water in Majesty Gardens, Kingston 11, has resulted in some residents breaching COVID-lockdown measures that have been imposed by the government. Several persons have been making trips to...

The teenage sons of Prime Minister Andrew Holness received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Sunday.  Adam and Matthew Holness, got the jab at Jamaica College in St Andrew this morning in the presence of their parents,...

Seventeen more Jamaicans have died as a result of COVID-19, pushing the death tally to 1,388. The deaths which occurred between August 16-20 include: A 62-year-old woman from KSA. A 77-year-old woman from KSA. A 63-...