A 17-year-old boy has been charged with the brutal murder of the 16-year-old student who was struck in the head with a metal chair during a fight at a St Ann secondary school last week and later died. Dead is Devonie Shearer of Tay Street in...

Flames ripped through a section of Spanish Town, St Catherine on Monday afternoon, leaving several residents counting their losses after a tenement yard went up in flames and was reduced to a charred shell. The blaze, which occurred along Nugent....

Reggae Boyz captain and star goalkeeper Andre Blake is the latest Jamaican to fall victim to car thieves, but the football star says the criminals could not take his joy. "You can steal my car but I refuse to let you steal my joy," Blake said in....

Rihanna was inside her Los Angeles home when a woman allegedly pulled up outside the property and fired several gunshots, sending police rushing to the scene and leading to the suspect's arrest. Authorities have identified the suspect as 35-year....

A Clarendon man who allegedly shot another man in the face before setting his car on fire has been slapped with multiple charges by the police. Charged is 35-year-old Rodwayne Richards, otherwise called "Rambo", a construction worker of Nairne......

A deadly weekend on Jamaica's roads has claimed the lives of two motorcyclists in separate crashes in Clarendon and Westmoreland. Dead are 48-year-old Marvin Carridice of Hibiscus Terrace in Lionel Town, Clarendon and 22-year-old Maurice...

As the Jamaica Constabulary Force Band performed Chronixx's I Can inside the AC Marriott Hotel last Friday, family members of late trainee constable Desmond Thompson were overcome with grief. With tears streaming down her face, his wife, Soyanna.....

Had former St Mary Western Member of Parliament Jolyan Silvera's birthday fallen after November 10, 2023, linking him to the death of his wife, Melissa Silvera, might have been far more difficult. But the timing of his firearm licence renewal on.....

A cousin of Jolyan Silvera is adamant that the former St Mary Western member of parliament got exactly what he deserved for taking the life of his wife. "If yuh do the crime, yuh affi do the time," he said, leaving no room for excuses or...

At 39 years old, Nickie says every minute she steps onto the dance floor or in a brothel room is driven by her singular goal of ensuring her daughter finishes university. The mother of three has spent years navigating a life many judge harshly,......

The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is calling on consumers to be extra vigilant when buying goods, especially online, amid rising concerns over unsafe or improperly labelled products in international markets. Latoya Halstead, director of...

Cancer patients are being encouraged to consult their doctors before turning to herbal or alternative remedies, as unmonitored treatment choices may interfere with recommended medical care. Speaking with JIS News recently, Regional Priority Non-.....

The Government of Jamaica has acknowledged that aspects of its long-standing medical cooperation programme with Cuba raised serious labour concerns. Cuban medical personnel working on the island were not in possession of their passports, and their.....

There is a small gland that most men rarely think about--until it causes trouble. It is called the prostate. About the size of a walnut, it sits just below the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the tube that carries urine out of the body. Though.....

Robot performs surgery A surgeon successfully guided a robot through a prostate removal surgery while being 1,500 miles away. Prokar Dasgupta - a professor of urology who heads The London Clinic's robotic centre of excellence - performed the.....

Last Thursday -- a day when farmers are usually busy harvesting crops for the market -- a St Elizabeth farmer stood in her field, contemplating whether to burn hundreds of pounds of ripening tomato rather than pick them. The farmer told THE STAR.....

Former Member of Parliament and wife killer Jolyan Silvera will be serving 20 years and 10 months behind bars for the brutal murder of his wife, Melissa Silvera. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes handed down the sentence in the Home Circuit Court on...

The woman who admitted to throwing a mixture of bleach and urine on Leoda Bradshaw while both were in custody has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. Kilfer Gilchrist pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm when the case was called.....

Dacia Forrester, the woman who was set ablaze during a shocking confrontation at a gas station in Whithorn, Westmoreland last month has died after weeks of fighting for her life in hospital. Forrester, who suffered severe burns during the...

Motorists and pedestrians along Lady Musgrave Road were left stunned Friday morning when a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus burst into flames near the busy intersection by the AC Marriott hotel. The blaze reportedly erupted early this.....