The past three years have been difficult for Linneth Whitely due to her inability to obtain a passport. Whitely, of Carby, St Elizabeth, said she has applied for the travel document but has been told by representatives of the Passport...

In a video posted on social media, Erica Milton, 55, of New Bowens in Clarendon, lamented that she was charged nearly $700,000 for breaches under the Disaster Risk Management Act. Rose Barnes, her daughter-in-law told THE STAR that Milton was on.....

The Clansman gang trial now under way in the Home Circuit Court is likely to cost taxpayers in the region of $50 million for the legal fees of the alleged gangsters. Justice Minister Delroy Chuck, speaking in the House of Representatives...

At 5 p.m. last Friday, Jahmoy had only $1,000 to his name, but an hour later he became a millionaire. Telecommunications giant Digicel, through its just-concluded Rich Togeddah summer promotion, made the St Andrew inner-city resident $10 million....

Opposition Senator Peter Bunting is calling for the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) to be reviewed, following the recent incident with former agriculture minister Floyd Green, who resigned after he was discovered at a party on a no-movement...

Dancehall artiste Webstah is ready to become a significant player in the music industry and is confident that his breakthrough is inevitable. "I am not worried about my future in the music biz; I know I have the talent and the right attitude to......

Farmers in Top Alston, Clarendon, are thankful for the greenhouse project that was funded by the Caribbean Development Bank and implemented by Environmental Foundation of Jamaica. Herbert Freckleton, president of the farmers group, said that it......

Kevin Lawrence is confident that his remake of Run Run, a song originally recorded by the late iconic reggae singer Delroy Wilson, will be a huge success. The Kingston-born singer says he was more than delighted to record the single because it's.....

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......