Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to make statement in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The focus of the prime minister's address is likely to be on the COVID-19 pandemic. Jamaica has been battling a devastating third wave of the....

(AP) - A woman is suing a New York fertility doctor, claiming he used his own sperm to secretly impregnate multiple patients, something she said she discovered when DNA genealogy tests revealed she had at least nine half-siblings. The lawsuit...

The Miami International Airport launched a 30-day pilot program this week with Cobra and One Betta, a pair of professionally trained COVID-19-detecting dogs. Cobra, a Belgian Malinois, and One Betta, a Dutch Shepherd, have been trained to detect......

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton, says more COVID-19 vaccines are expected in the island this week. "We will see vaccines coming in every few weeks or, at least, every month going into the New Year," he...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the president and asked officials to bar him from leaving the country. The order filed by Port-au-...

Jamaica on Monday recorded 536 new COVID-19 cases from 1,480 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 76,987 with 24,659 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 47.4%. Of the new cases, 323...

LONDON (AP) -- The U.K. said Tuesday it will offer a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine to everyone over age 50 and other vulnerable people after an an expert panel said the boosters were needed to protect against waning immunity this winter....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Tropical Storm Nicholas slowed to a crawl over the Houston area Tuesday after making landfall earlier as a hurricane, knocking out power to a half-million homes and businesses and dumping more than a foot (30.5 centimeters) of...

SHANEL LEMMIE STAR WRITER Raft captains who operate on the Rio Grande in Portland say the no-movement days have only succeeded in making their financial position weaker. Lawrence Chisholm, president of the Rio Grande Raft Captains Association...

A Jamaican high school principal has been reprimanded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information for the language he used while seeking to dissuade his students from having sex. The principal, in a video that has gone viral, labelled some.....

Shanna Monteith STAR Writer Winston Johnson, 85, of Spring Garden in St Thomas, wants to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but said he is hindered from doing so because of a lack of mobility. Johnson told THE STAR that he would greatly welcome a...

Telecommunications firm FLOW said that it has connected more than 420 communities to its fibre-fast network since January 2020. According to Stephen Price, FLOW's general manager, the upgrade means that more than 90,000 homes can now access the...

Shadow Minister of National Security Senator Peter Bunting has given the Government a failing grade for its management of the crime portfolio. Bunting, pointing to the 10 per cent increase in murders so far this year, called on the Government to...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- More than 100 heads of state and government are planning to attend the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders in person next week, including U.S. President Joe Biden, King Abdullah II of Jordan...

Twenty-three-year-old Savijon Brown, an artist of Gold Smith Avenue, August Town in St. Andrew has been arrested and charged following an incident in Bridgeport, Portmore, St. Catherine on Saturday, September 11. Reports are that about 8:45 p.m.,......

(AP) - The average person doesn't need a COVID-19 booster yet, an international group of scientists, including two top U.S. regulators, wrote Monday in a scientific journal. The experts reviewed studies of the vaccines'...

A police operation in the Hermitage community of Kingston 7 on Sunday, resulted in the seizure of one Taurus 9mm pistol and seventeen 9mm rounds of ammunition. Reports are that between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 noon, lawmen were...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's chief medical officers said Monday that children aged 12 to 15 should be vaccinated against coronavirus, despite a ruling by the government's vaccine advisors that the step would have only marginal health...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded 594 new COVID-19 cases from 2,136 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 76,451 with 24,460 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 36.2%. Of the new cases, 356...

SHANEL LEMMIE STAR WRITER "Me hear a big groaning, like somebody going into labour, and the next thing I know, the roof of di house next door to me rip right off, tear right off," comedian and actor Oliver Samuels recalled. The groaning of...