S Hotel Montego Bay has emerged as the highest-ranked Caribbean property in the 2026 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, securing second place overall in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Central America category.

When Jeanette Moore received the dreadful news from her oncologist that she had stage 2 breast cancer, she immediately called her loved ones and told them she was on the brink of death.

Last month, Noel Bell was scheduled to sit down with THE STAR to discuss what it is like living with sickle cell disease. Instead, he ended up in hospital.

n a major shift in how public-order breaches are handled, the Government is preparing to roll out a new ticketing system designed to crack down on offences while reducing the confrontations that have long erupted during enforcement operations.

A man who reportedly shot another man and the man’s dog was shot dead by police in a reported confrontation on Tuesday.

The 32-year-old woman whose shocking story of alleged childhood sexual abuse sparked widespread outrage is now using her painful experience to encourage other survivors to speak up, seek therapy and begin healing.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was imposed.

A St Catherine man accused of stealing a 2019 Nissan Sylphy from outside a Gregory Park home has been granted $1 million bail after investigators reportedly used technology to track the stolen vehicle.

A St Catherine taxi operator has walked free from an ammunition charge after the Crown failed to produce enough evidence linking him to four 9mm rounds allegedly hidden inside Nike sneakers at his premises.

A 31-year-old bar operator is nursing gunshot wounds after three men who allegedly posed as customers turned robbers at her Old Harbour business in broad daylight yesterday.

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Vietnam (AP): Police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City arrested 12 men suspected of operating a citywide ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat, state media said.

The industry ministry has launched a restoration grant programme to assist micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) affected by Hurricane Melissa.

National Coordinator for Safety and Security in Schools, Richard Troupe, says the education ministry is committed to preventing bullying in schools and ensuring safe learning environments.

Amid complaints of Falmouth, Trelawny becoming increasingly filthy and rat-infested, the town’s mayor Collen Gager says clean-up efforts are being undermined by some vendors and litterbugs.

Jamaica has recorded a 24 per cent reduction in murders since the beginning of the year.

A seven-minute walk from his North Street home to Denham Town High School should have been part of 11-year-old Jaydon Whyte’s routine yesterday.

What started as an ordinary morning shower before work turned into a nightmare for schoolteacher Ken's Pinnock-Powell when she felt a tiny lump in her breast that would later be diagnosed as Stage One breast cancer.