Dancehall artiste Mr Lexx is in good spirits as the veteran recovers from an emergency surgery. The Survive DJ said he was doing "OK" and that the surgery, which took place Sunday night, "was successful". "Ten...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr, has warned farm thieves to "find another occupation". According to Charles praedial larceny is one of its most difficult challenges but the authorities are moving to arrest the...

The police have seized a total of five guns during ongoing operations at the National Stadium East field in St Andrew. The operation, which started yesterday, has since yielded five high powered weapons, magazines, and a cache of ammunition....

Recording artiste Don J1 says that he does not blame the police for searching his home after he uploaded a video in which he is deejaying while holding what persons thought was a firearm. The entertainer spoke with THE STAR yesterday hours after....

After assisting one of her staff with cutting meat, Cherone Clarke settles into her office to sift through documents. It's part of the daily routine for the chief operating officer of Tai's Meat Mart and Wholesale in Tower Street, central...

As gun violence continues to be a feature of the Portmore municipality, assailants shot two persons last Friday, killing a 66-year-old vendor at her home in Naggo Head. A man who was riding his bicycle along the road was also injured. The woman......

Constable Joel Robinson rebuked a man who interrupted him when he was preaching to a small gathering in Dunkirk, Kingston, last Saturday near the spot where four persons were shot, two fatally last Friday night. The cop was emphasising that Jesus....

As she stood on two legs for the first time in five years last Friday, Cara Moore's eyes lit up as she jokingly expressed her intention to seek Shenseea's endorsement as she was 'the real doll'. "Mi feel like a dolly because mi foot dem can take.....

Chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation Corporal Rohan James is calling for the Government to free police officers from mental slavery through shorter hours and better pay. News broke last week that a St Elizabeth cop left his one-year-old...

Five persons who were brought before the courts for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) explained to the judge that they were trying to flee their homes due to a shooting incident in their community. Damion McEachron, Onela...

A deep conversation with his grandfather, who was on his dying bed in 2013, catapulted Lawrence Lynch of Heartese in St Thomas, into what he believes to be his destiny, a life in agriculture. Looking over some five acres of land bursting with...

Three persons were shot and killed this morning in Bounty Hall, Trelawny, after a group of six travellers were ambushed by men with high powered weapons. The deceased: 1. Daniel Williams, 24, otherwise called 'Alkaline', unemployed of Cross...

A woman who was stabbed by a man in Negril, Westmoreland, on Wednesday night, disarmed him and stabbed him to death with his own weapon. The deceased has been identified as Tejon Jackson, otherwise called 'Sean', labourer of Whitehall, also in......

Wayne Kerr, whose daughter Brianna and a man named Derrick Coley were killed under mysterious circumstances on December 3 along Mountain View Avenue, in Kingston, is furious that after 50 days, he is yet to hear from the police. "Only thing I...

A former Haitian opposition senator who is a suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise is said to be contemplating applying for asylum in Jamaica. The fugitive, John Joseph, appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish...

"Are you sure we are at the right place?" I asked my co-workers rhetorically as we drove into Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth. Just minutes earlier, I had rolled down the car window with the hopes of inhaling the spices from the shrimp vendors'...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday urged Jamaicans to perish the thought of the country removing the need for the wearing of masks in public spaces. Under the Disaster Risk Management Act, the main legislative tool being used to...

A major player in the funeral business, Calvin Lyn, has described as "pure madness", the announcement by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Britons will no longer be required to wear masks as of Wednesday. Clinicians have recommended the...

Dancehall artiste and prolific songwriter Frankie Sly is so appalled at Jamaica's high murder rate that he has penned a song which speaks directly to it. The working title of the Cassette Jones production says it all - A Couldn't Jamaica This. "....

An ongoing feud on Plum Lane in Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew claimed the life of a 39-year-old businessman yesterday morning. According to police reports, at 7:35 a.m. Craig Gooden, aka 'Sprinta', operator of Splinta Auto Parts, was opening his....