Member of Parliament for South East St Ann Lisa Hanna has called on the government to give emergency vehicles free access to highways and road networks if they are to “better serve and protect citizens.” Her statement comes on the heels...

Detectives assigned to the St Andrew North Police Division are probing the shooting death of an unidentified man in East Kirkland Heights, Red Hills, St Andrew on Saturday. According to the Constant Spring Police, at 5:20 p.m. residents reportedly.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is looking ahead at economic liberation for Jamaica, as the nation celebrates its diamond jubilee, 'Jamaica 60'. Speaking at a church service on Sunday (May 1) as part of Jamaica 60 launch activities in...

St Ann-based restaurant Plantation Smokehouse has announced it will be expanding into Kingston coming next month. Alwyn Brown, manager for the Plantation Smokehouse and Sharkies Seafood Restaurant said "It's a new development, we were...

Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) say they have created another dent in the drugs for guns trade following the seizure of two kilograms of cocaine in Norwich district in Portland on Saturday. Commanding officer for the Portland police....

Thirty-six-year-old Ricardo Francis otherwise called 'Landlord', was arrested and charged following the seizure of an illegal firearm and ten rounds of ammunition during an operation in Bull Bay, St. Thomas. The Yallahs Police say that...

Nineteen-year-old Troy Riley of Rum Lane in Kingston was charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm, following the killing of a man on East Queen Street in the parish. The victim has been identified as 40-year-old Fitzroy...

Dozens of travellers were left stranded earlier today after sections of the main road leading from Boston into Port Antonio in Portland were blocked by taxi and minibus operators protesting poor road conditions.

Corporal Rohan James has blasted the Government for what he said is its reluctance to change the rules to allow police free access to the country's toll road. A policeman, Constable Carr, died as a result of injuries sustained during a crash on.....

A shopkeeper in Bedward Gardens, St Andrew, said that for two minutes he thought he was living a nightmare when gunmen opened fire at his business establishment on Saturday, which resulted in the death of three men and the injury of another in the....

Christopher McIntosh has only one desire and that is to regain the life he once enjoyed before he made the streets of the Corporate Area his home. For the past seven years, McIntosh, who claimed to have been forced out of his house, has been...

MOBILE, Atlanta. (AP): Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to the United States more than 160 years ago. The Alabama Historical Commission says a....

A total of 44 micro and small enterprises in the August Town, St Andrew community have been awarded grant support valued at $5.8 million under the Government's Integrated Community Development Project II (ICDP-II). The project is being...

Jamaica Moves now in schools Education Minister Fayval Williams said healthy habits, such as being physically active and eating well, have proven to yield long-term dividends in the fight against lifestyle diseases. Speaking last Friday...

For the first time in three years, Lionel Francis took the bold step down his life's most painful pathway as he recollected the murder of his daughter, Yetanya Francis. Yetanya, a Kingston Technical High School student, left home in Arnett...

Expungement is essentially having a conviction removed from one's criminal record after the requisite rehabilitation period has passed and after certain requirements have been met. The Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act, 1988,...

Three men were shot and killed in the August Town police division early this morning. The men were reportedly coming from a party. Information reaching The Star is that the shooting took place just before 5 am. Investigators believe the son of a...

Persons inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court were left stunned yesterday when they heard that a Corporate Area man allegedly poured gasolene on a litter of German Shepherd puppies and set them on fire. The accused, Kareem Weeks, 30,...

Simone Morgan-Lindo Having been released from hospital on Saturday, Kaylan Dowdie spent her first night at home rebonding with her family, especially her younger sister, Shyann. "They laughed and chat, and watched TV. They were up until very...

National coordinator of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's National Safe Schools Unit Inspector Tanecia Johnson says that the increased use of drugs by students is a serious cause for concern among the 174 school resource officers that she currently....