A US fugitive who ran off in Jamaica after coming to the island on a cruise ship was arrested by lawmen in Brown's Town, St Ann, last Saturday. The man, Garfield Sewell, 20, was among 1,700 passengers who arrived on Carnival Sunrise cruise ship,.....

Michael Reid, the 21-year-old youth from St James who cried on video asking for help after losing his job, has been able to start poultry farming. After the video went viral, Reid said numerous persons, especially from overseas, have reached out.....

The prosecution's star witness yesterday testified that the Clansman-One Don gang used a woman to transport three illegal guns in her handbag, as part of a plan to kill a gang rival. The Home Circuit Court also heard that the target was a top...

Kaydia Levien found herself in a state of denial after she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Just 31 years old at the time, the diagnosis was a lot for Levien to process. She said that she searched for forums with other similarly...

The People's National Party's executive committee said that it has expelled activist Karen Cross from the party with immediate effect. The committee, in a release yesterday, said that it came to the decision "having received and considered the......

People's National Party senator Peter Bunting has denied that he played any role in the revocation of Government minister Daryl Vaz's US visa. In an interview on Nationwide News Network, former US Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia said Bunting.....

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) said that it has not approved any policy or measure that would see the use of power outages as a means to control electricity losses. The regulator made the comment yesterday after Member of Parliament...

Oshane Thompson, a former member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, has been found guilty of murder following his trial in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston. Thompson was charged in relation to the fatal shooting of Kriston Pearson at a party in......

Graphic artist Melissa Green says that learning how to produce her own supply of fruits and vegetables has benefited her mental health and that of her family during the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. "It is great satisfaction, and a....

The search for a job continues to elude Nygel Northover, the Dunsinane District, Manchester, native who famously used social media in July to ask Prime Minister Andrew Holness to find him a job. Northover, 26, told THE STAR that despite his best.....

The United Independents' Congress (UIC), whose leader, Joseph Patterson, was arrested last week for leading a demonstration against mandatory vaccination, is seeking to raise nearly $30 million to fund the legal defence of its members and...

Sisters Racquel Williams and Kaydreen Nelson, who on Wednesday were both fined $200,000 or 30 days in jail by a St Thomas Parish Court Judge for not wearing a mask, feel they were treated unfairly by the justice system. Williams, who works at a......

Julian Robinson, the member of parliament for South Eastern St Andrew, is calling for urgent intervention from the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) to prevent the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) from continuing its practice of...

A St James family getting ready to bury a family member on Wednesday now finds itself in the position where a second burial must be planned. This is as a result of yesterday's murder of Osane Brown, 30, otherwise called Nico, of Gunns Drive in...

The police in St James have reported that they have recovered an illegal firearm and several rounds of ammunition from the house of a St James couple, who were shot and killed by armed men who invaded their home in Niagara district, St James, on......

JDF denies buying military vehicles The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) said that it is not involved in the purchase of the vehicles, which are now the subject of a video circulating via social media. The video, which shows several military type......

More than 10,000 persons have been murdered in Jamaica since 2010, statistics presented in the Senate by Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, reveal. Some 1,026 of those murders were committed between......

One of Jo-Anna Gowdie's greatest wishes is to see her only child, Jayden Stoddart, make his first independent step. At five years old, when most children are skipping along with their peers or riding their bicycles, little Jayden is unable to...

A staggering $4.69 million was collected in fines for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) in Morant Bay, St Thomas, on Wednesday. According to the Court Administration Division, just over 70 persons were brought before the court......

A family in Lluidas Vale, St Catherine, is mourning the death of their mother, 56-year-old mother Beryl Junior, who they say contracted COVID-19 while she was a patient at the Spanish Town Hospital where she was admitted with asthma problems....