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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:28:46 -0500
101 firearms, 3000 rounds of ammunition surrendered during gun amnesty
A total of 101 firearms and 3,000 rounds of ammunition were handed over to the authorities under the gun amnesty, which ended recently. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, made the disclosure during the sitting of the House of Representatives on...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:42:51 -0500
Police seize gun found in a oats box
The Harbour View Police say that have arrested two men from the Kingston 17 police division after an illegal firearm was found stashed away in an oats box inside a refrigerator on Tuesday. According to the police, lawmen were in the area when...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:06:19 -0500
St Lucia government to pay severance payments to former LIAT workers
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Nov 23, CMC - The St. Lucia government says it will make severance and other termination benefit payments to former non-unionised workers of the Antigua-based airline, LIAT (1974) Limited following the collapse of the...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:02:27 -0500
Germany players cover mouths at World Cup in FIFA protest
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Germany's players covered their mouths for their team photo before their opening World Cup match in an apparent rebuke of FIFA's clampdown on plans to wear armbands to protest discrimination in host nation Qatar...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:56:51 -0500
Workers protest, beaten at virus-hit Chinese iPhone factory
BEIJING (AP) -- Employees at the world's biggest Apple iPhone factory were beaten and detained in protests over pay amid anti-virus controls, according to witnesses and videos on social media Wednesday, as tensions mount over Chinese...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:47:46 -0500
Walmart employee fired on co-workers in break room; 6 dead
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) -- A Walmart employee opened fire at a store in Virginia, leaving six people dead, police said Wednesday, in the country's second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant also killed himself. The...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:02 -0500
Students robbed by masked thugs in uniform
Two Corporate Area high school students have been left traumatised after being physically attacked and robbed by perpetrators believed to be teenage boys last week. Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, the mother of one of the boys said she was...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:04 -0500
Police constable fighting for her life - Needs urgent liver transplant
Twenty-six-year-old Police Constable Donique Anderson is living on hope and prayer as she desperately needs a liver transplant, without which, doctors have told her, she is on borrowed time. Speaking from her bed at the Falmouth Hospital in...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:14 -0500
Disappointment as Argentina off to a ‘Messi’ start
A look of total bemusement was plastered over the face of Stephano Smikle, who left the comfort of his home about 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday to watch Argentina slump to a 2-1 defeat in their opening game of the World Cup at his friend's sports bar along....

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:17 -0500
Football loving infant stars the show as France cruise
With just two touches on the ball, five-year-old Twayne showed just why his father Ralston Bogle has been investing so much time in helping him learn the 'beautiful game'. Ralston, a proud supporter of Germany, said he is hoping that his football....

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:51 -0500
Fan who lost oral sex World Cup bet still backs Argentina
At the last World Cup in 2018, Jason Taylor, a die-hard Argentina supporter, vowed to eat the forbidden fruit if the South American side lost its match to Croatia. To his dismay, Argentina got a 3-0 beatdown and Taylor was laughed at, taunted...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:08 -0500
Challenging nine months for family of deceased cop
Behind her faint smile, Michelle Townsend-Harper's face conveyed a picture of grief. Townsend-Harper is the widow of Inspector Rupert Harper, who died suddenly while on duty on February 5. Harper was reportedly quelling a dispute in Lawrence...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:07 -0500
Don Quell upbeat about ‘Classick’
Rising dancehall artiste Don Quell is upbeat about what he described as a hard-hitting single titled Classick. Re-released in September, the song aims at empowering the youth living in the inner cities to work hard and make money to uplift...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:03:00 -0500
Gonnabe promotes ‘Please Take My Heart’
Recording artiste Gonnabe has released his single Please Take My Heart, which can be described as a dancehall ballad. "The song is about love in its most unfiltered form while highlighting some of the things that have caused the subject of the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:25:32 -0500
TEF to host town hall on Orchard Beach development
The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) will host a town hall on the development of the Orchard Beach in Hopewell, Hanover. The consultation session is scheduled for Sunday (November 27) at the Hopewell Community Centre and will start at 2:00 p.m....

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:19:17 -0500
Pet therapy programme to be rolled out at Bustamante Hospital
Children admitted at the Bustamante Hospital for Children will begin to receive animal assisted therapy during the upcoming Christmas season, for a period of 18 months. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton said the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:18:11 -0500
Ronaldo to leave Manchester United ‘with immediate effect’
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Manchester United "with immediate effect," the Premier League club said Tuesday. The 37-year-old forward conducted an explosive interview on the eve of the World Cup, criticising...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:49:02 -0500
Farmer caught stealing ketchup from woman’s home
According to police reports, a St Elizabeth farmer has been arrested and charged after he was caught stealing a bottle of tomato ketchup from a woman's house in Maggotty in the parish. It is further reported that when caught, 50-year-old...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:34:29 -0500
26-y-o charged with rape
St James resident Akeem Walton, 26, has been charged with rape and unlawful wounding after he allegedly assaulted his neighbour in Salt Spring, in the parish on Friday. It is reported that Walton had asked his neighbour to allow him to use her...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:27:06 -0500
Westmoreland man charged with murder
The police have arrested and charged 56-year-old Fitzroy Fray after he allegedly stabbed a man to death in Moreland Hill, Westmoreland on Saturday. It is reported that the deceased, Kish Evans, 36, had a dispute with Fray, during which Fray used a.....



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