The St Catherine Police are probing the death of an elderly man who was found dead at his home in Old Harbour in the parish. It is being suspected that 63-year-old mason Delroy Reid took his own life. "Mi just get up and see him...

The police have identified the man whose body was discovered at a car watch on St Johns Road in Spanish Town by residents this morning. He is 30- year- old Rayon Daley of a Bog walk address. Daley's body was found with multiple gunshot wounds...

A Manchester man is counting his blessings after escaping an armed robber who attacked him as he left a church meeting in the Cedar Grove district, in the parish on Wednesday night. According to preliminary reports, at approximately 7:30 pm, the...

A State of Public Emergency has been imposed for St Catherine. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness at a press conference earlier today. Holness said the Government had to act to stem crime and violence in the parish. Sections....

The police are now combing the beachfront near the Palisadoes Road for clues after a decomposed male body was found by a passerby. The body is in an advanced state of decomposition. The body was found about 8am. Onlookers are...

Donovan Williams stood at his common-law wife's bedside at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine on Wednesday night and watched helplessly as she took her last breath. His partner of over 22 years, Nickeisha Pottinger, was fighting for her...

There were days when Ian Stewart wondered whether he would ever be able to save enough money to give his family the kind of dwelling they deserve. The 34-year-old lived in a one-bedroom concrete dwelling with a shaky foundation, the left side had....

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to rule on Monday whether Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, the alleged leader of the Clansman-One Don Gang, and 23 of his co-accused, will continue to stand trial in the ongoing gang trial in the Home Circuit Court. No-case......

The Sydney Pagon STEM Academy is leading the way to ending food waste through solar dehydration. This is the process of preserving foods by drying them using the sun. While this process can occur naturally by leaving food like fruits and...

The past week has been a nightmare for Mitsy*, whose 20-year-old son Andreff 'Akeem' Campbell died on June 10 after battling a mysterious illness. The grieving mother told THE WEEKEND STAR that she lost a huge part of her heart when her son's...

A Clarendon woman who applied for, and obtained three Jamaican passports using different names, was yesterday fined $330,000 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Dorothy Ellis pleaded guilty to three counts of making a false declaration......

The St James police have launched a manhunt for two armed robbers who reportedly shot and killed a popular jeweller at his store in downtown Montego Bay, on Thursday, robbing him of assorted jewellery. The deceased has been identified as 68-year....

A 42-year-old man chased and beat his girlfriend all over her body after seeing explicit photographs in her phone. The man, whose identity is being withheld to protect the identity of the woman, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual...

Woman marries herself A woman has married herself in India's first-ever solo wedding. Kshama Bindu held the ceremony at her home in the presence of family and friends earlier this month. She had been planning to marry herself in a temple in...

The Ian Fleming International Airport in Boscobel, St Mary has received its first commercial flight.The airport today saw the arrival of InterCaribbean Airways from Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.Minister of Tourism Ed Bartlett was among...

A man who skimmed $1 million from unsuspecting individuals, under the guise that he could secure overseas employment for them, was sentenced to two years in prison at hard labour. Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque on Tuesday chided the....

A retired senior police officer believes that it is "damn disgrace" that the murder rate has consistently averaged more than 1,000 annually in the past two decades, despite the Government and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) having the...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday blasted the prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial for what he considered its continuous failure to provide supporting and affirmative evidence. He stressed that too much reliance was being placed on......

It is not often that you meet a 16-year-old who is more interested in using his hard-earned money to help others. Raquan Turner says that he is not interested in having many material things. For him, his money is best served by assisting others......

A 16-year-old boy is facing firearms charges after being identified as one of two individuals who accosted a licensed firearm holder on May 31. Reports are that at 8:30 p.m., the teen and another male travelling on a motorcycle approached a...