The 2022/23 Budget Debate begins on Tuesday, March 8 in the House of Representatives, with Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke, making his presentation. Dr Clarke will inform the nation how the $912-billion Budget for the...

Dozens of students from varied schools were left stranded in Buff Bay, Portland this morning, after taxi men and minibus operators protested for a designated route from Buff Bay to Port Antonio. The disgruntled operators exclaimed that no...

"I don't know how the Delano story became about someone else. I don't know, but this too shall pass," chorused Kerensia Morrison. The St Catherine North East member of parliament, speaking with THE STAR yesterday, expressed her anger and dismay......

It was a mixture of tears and laughter on Saturday as family members of Xavier Phillips, more popularly called AJ, gathered at his graveside in Red Hills, Clarendon, to celebrate what would have been his ninth birthday. Xavier was shot and killed....

Having seen how barefaced criminals have become, a senior lawman last week declared that he will not be taking any chances with the WiFi access point that has been installed at the Jones Town Primary School in South St Andrew. Senior...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, said his ministry is adequately prepared to respond to any further eventuality that could arise from the full resumption of face-to-face classes. The COVID-19 pandemic had forced many...

PAID MOURNER hit by duppy Professional funeral mourner Dalkeith Wright has blamed a ghost for him spraining one of his legs, leaving it swollen. Wright, better known as Kingston 11, earns his keep by attending funerals and crying for the...

Charmaine Forbes smiled brightly as passers-by, some in motor vehicles, slowed to admire her handy work that adorns a wall at the entrance to the Rae Town Fishing Village on Friday afternoon. Forbes, who is one of the streets artists painting......

Spider bites man's penis A man was frightened that he would lose his penis after it was bitten by a black widow spider as he slept. Fergus Farrelly, a construction worker from Ireland, revealed that he woke up one morning with a painful lump......

As the 60th anniversary of Jamaica's independence approaches, one Nigerian living in the country is eager to bask in the celebrations of the diamond jubilee. Alexandria Nwachuku, the recently crowned Miss Black History Month, told THE STAR that.....

The Portland police are on the hunt for two suspects who they say are wanted in connection with the shooting death of one resident, and the injury of another in Orrette Lane, Buff Bay in Portland. The first suspect is 22-year-old Annotto Bay...

The police yesterday arrested a Portland man for stabbing to death of his stepfather during a domestic dispute in the farming community of Nonsuch, Portland. Early reports from police sources have confirmed that Antonio Hutchinson was involved in.....

Festivities at an illegal party in Shrewsbury, Portland yesterday turned sour, after a dispute between two men lead to the chopping death of 26-year-old Tyrone Thompson. The police have identified Carvel Blackett, otherwise called 'Adda...

Renford Soares, who reportedly swindled persons out of $15 million by posing as an employee of the Jamaica Customs Agency and Kingston Wharves, pleaded guilty to a separate charge of larceny by trick in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on...

Veteran Reggae singer, and patriarch of the Morgan Heritage family, Denroy Morgan has died at the age of 76. The Morgan family confirmed his death via a social media post this morning. Clarendon-born Morgan migrated to the United States at an early....

A suspected lottery scammer from Rowe Town in Westmoreland has been charged, following his arrest during a special operation by the police yesterday. The accused has been identified as 21-year-old Taforie Pinnock, otherwise called '...

The body of missing hotel manager Clyde Taylor was discovered in the trunk of his 2013 Nissan Note motorcar in Top Hill near Runaway Bay, St Ann last night. The body had several chop wounds to the upper torso, including the head. One man,...

Jamaica could turn to the farming of flies as a sustainable source of feed for animals such as chickens and fish. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat.....

Disabled but not deterred is the phrase that best describes the character of Dean Anthony Whyte, a blind man who lives in Longsville Park, Clarendon. Despite his disability, Whyte does electrical and construction work , makes and repairs...

A Corporate Area man told the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday that he broke the nightly curfew because his girlfriend had another man at his home. The man admitted to breaching the curfew and was fined under the Disaster Risk...