PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Two of 17 members of a missionary group who were kidnapped more than a month ago are safe and "in good spirits" after being freed in Haiti, their U.S..-based church organisation announced. Christian...

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is reporting that the country's gross international reserves, as at November 17, totalled approximately US$4.7 billion. Governor, Richard Byles, said the figure represents the equivalent of 143.8 per cent of the...

Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, says that Port Royal is a valuable historical asset, and the Government is committed to ensuring that the area is developed and maintained for the benefit of Jamaicans. "Port Royal is a historical gem for...

A 16-year-old high-school student is now dead, after being shot multiple times, allegedly by her granduncle at her home on Lincoln Road, east Kingston, on Saturday. The teen, Sorika Picart, a student of Alpha Academy, was shot at least six times....

Having spent the better part of six decades working on a farm - which enabled her to feed, clothe, and fund her nine children's education - 73-year-old farmer Jennifer Francis, better known as 'Aunty', believes that agriculture has much to offer......

It has been almost 14 months since Gilbert Thompson went missing. The 69-year-old mason, of Plantain Walk, Dallas Castle, St Andrew, was last seen on Sunday, August 24, 2020 while he was at work in Lyndhurst Gap in the parish. Since his father's.....

With more than 400 persons been killed in crashes on Jamaica's roads since the start of the year, the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) has issued a call for the speedy implementation of the safe system approach . Prime Minister Andrew Holness.....

The second of three national shelters being established by the Government to accommodate women, who are victims of abuse, and their children, will be opened shortly. Denzil Thorpe, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Gender,...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP): Biblical Bethlehem has struggled since the start of the coronavirus pandemic almost two years ago. Christmas is normally peak season for tourism in Jesus' traditional birthplace, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank....

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden last Friday pardoned two Thanksgiving turkeys, saying that the white male birds were selected based on their "temperament, appearance and, I suspect, vaccination status." "Instead of getting basted, these two.....

More than 300 Jamaicans are waiting to be admitted into state-run infirmaries across the island but a decision by the Government last March to stop accepting new admissions due to the pandemic has meant that they remain in limbo. Minister of...

Vincent Dunn, the ex-boyfriend of 27-year-old McKedia Hudson who died after the car he was driving plunged into the Rio Cobre in the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court last...

Dog's mansion up for sale A mansion belonging to the world's richest dog has gone on sale for US$32 million. Gunther VI is a wealthy pooch after inheriting US$500 million from his grandfather Gunther IV, and the German Shepherd's Miami estate.....

An alleged turf war in Ten and Eleven Miles, Bull Bay, St Thomas, has resulted in the deaths of nine persons and several others still nursing gunshot wounds. However, even as residents are fed up, they are still tight-lipped and reluctant to...

Jamaica received its sixth cruise ship for the week on Friday, with the Aida scheduled pulling up to port at the Falmouth Port in Trelawny. These are the most vessels the island has seen in one week since the return of cruise ships in August....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has told the mother of a slain young policeman that he wished his Government could have acted sooner to save his life. Duvaughn Brown, 25, a trainee policeman attached to the National Police College of Jamaica, was......

A man who allegedly held a knife to the chest of a woman sergeant of police and robbed her of her bracelet in downtown Kingston was nabbed by the long hand of the law after he was taken to the police station to be processed for another offence....

"S@#t wata take over Payne Land" a cookshop owner told THE WEEKEND STAR yesterday. A puddle of raw sewage sits just footsteps away from his small business. The stench from the sewage has been plaguing the St Andrew South community for weeks. "It....

A former top tier member of the One Don Gang yesterday raised eyebrows in the Home Circuit Court after he called one of the defence attorneys an "estate lawyer". "You know say you a waa estate lawyer, you a waa estate lawyer," the ex-gangster...

SHANNA MONTEITH Neatly situated along the White Horses to Morant Bay main road in St Thomas is the Roselle Falls. Overlooking the Caribbean Sea and carpeted by moss, the popular water stop has been a source of recreation, earning its place in....