An Ananda Alert has been activated for nine-year-old Deuieon Patterson of Frontier, Port Maria in St. Mary who has been reported missing since Monday, January 10. Patterson is of dark complexion, stout build and about (four feet) tall. The police......

The St Ann's Bay Regional Hospital in St Ann is advising that over 40 of its healthcare workers are out sick due to COVID-19. Further, the hospital is also seeing an increase in COVID-19 admissions since December. “Essentially, we're...

BEIJING (AP) -- A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people. The lockdown of Anyang, home to 5.5 million people, was...

Jamaica recorded 37 murders in the first eight days of 2022, data from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has revealed. This is nine more than the corresponding 28 murders, which was committed in the first week on 2021. The country recorded 1,....

Angry residents of Tivoli Gardens in west Kingston yesterday questioned why members of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) took about three and a half hours to process the scene of a police fatal shooting in their community....

As a youngster, Wrol Foster was overjoyed to travel from Mandeville, Manchester to visit his grandparents in the community of Mayfield, also in the parish, and bask in the beauty of the countryside. But fate and what Foster believes to be divine....

Romaine Allen, one of the founders of Life Yard on Fleet Street in Parade Gardens, central Kingston, said Sunday's installation of a Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) is a welcome change. "There are two sides to a coin but it is never too late...

It has been four years and three months since Jennifer Young laid eyes on her father, Egbert Young. The elderly man was 86 when he disappeared from the Spanish Town Hospital in October, 2017. Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, Jennifer said she.....

On Monday, an emotional Latoya Gregory asked the question that has been on the lips of everyone in her family since December 19, 2021 when her daughter Tricia Gregory, 18, went missing. "Where is my daughter? I need her to come back home," she...

Three men were shot and killed in Providence Heights, St James, on Monday night. The police have not yet released the identities of the men, but it is believed that they are from the Corporate Area. Reports by the police are that shortly after 9.....

An illegal gun and 20 cellular phones, which are believed to have been stolen from two establishments in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, were recovered on a Coaster bus following quick action by the police yesterday. One man was arrested in connection.....

A 55-year-old man was arrested by the police after he was allegedly caught stealing sheets at a house in Hope Pastures, St Andrew on Sunday. The man, Devon Brown, of no fixed address, has been charged by the Matilda's Corner police with...

Mining Minister Robert Montague has expressed optimism that the creation of a new effluent holding pond in Ewarton, St Catherine, will stop the overflow of effluent into the Rio Cobre. Last Thursday, West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco), a...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has made changes to the composition of the Cabinet. The newly appointed ministers will be sworn in at a virtual ceremony tomorrow. Here are the changes: 1. Office of the Cabinet * Prime Minister Andrew Holness 2...

A man died early this morning after crashing into a concrete utility pole along the Port Henderson main road in Portmore, St Catherine. The deceased has been identified as 40-year-old Maurice McKenzie.

A 55-year-old man who was caught stealing sheets in a house in Hope Pastures, St Andrew has been charged with housebreaking with intent.

WASHINGTON, CMC - The United States Department of State announced on Sunday that consular officers are now temporarily authorised to waive in-person interviews for certain individual petition-based nonimmigrant work visas and their...

The Office of the Governor-General has been closed for today due to COVID-19. It reported, through a post on its Twitter account, that a number of persons have tested positive for the virus. It said that the Ministry of Health is will be carrying.....

A resident of Parade Gardens, who lost a relative to gun violence last year in central Kingston, has welcomed the decision to name the often-volatile community a zone of special operations (ZOSO). She believes that the presence of the security...

Fabian Melvin, who is a much-liked resident of Admiral Town in Kingston, has, within a year, transformed an illegal dumpsite used by residents into a highly functional greenhouse farming hub that he uses to help feed the elderly. The land space,.....