Every week, after the sanctuary empties and the pastor goes home, his wife, Candy*, stays behind. What happens next, she insists, is not sin but "ministry", albeit of a sexual nature. Inside the same church where sermons of obedience and...

Outside of family, what gave Courtney Robinson the most pleasure was seeing electricity restored to communities that were once left in darkness. After Hurricane Melissa inflicted catastrophic damage on western Jamaica last October, the 66-year-......

When her mother died in 2019, Melissa* was only 12 years old; her father had passed five years prior. After bouncing around living with relatives, one day she walked to the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) office, hoping to...

Detectives attached to the Trelawny Criminal Investigations Branch have charged 18-year-old Javion Cameron, a farmer of Thompson Town district in the parish, with murder, following the stabbing death of a man in his community on Sunday. The...

Thirty-eight-year-old Ricardo Nicholas, a security guard, of Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been charged with larceny as a servant following the theft of a large sum of money on January 3. Reports from the police are that at 7:54 p.m., Nicholas....

Pope Leo XIV has warned men not to form emotional attachments to AI chatbot "girlfriends". Speaking on the World Day of Social Communications last week, the pontiff said it is becoming "increasingly difficult to determine whether we are...

A scene of mourning turned into crime scene when a teenager allegedly opened fire on a man attending a wake in Kingston 11, leaving the victim wounded and the shooter arrested. Eighteen-year-old Roy Dallas, otherwise called 'Royo', of St Andrew.....

A St Catherine farmer who was known for repeatedly threatening to take his own life was later found lifeless at his home early this morning. Dead is George Lynch, otherwise called 'Raj', a 39-year-old farmer of Crawl Road, Riversdale, St...

When Tyece Ferguson walks across the stage at the University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica this Saturday, she will be doing more than collecting a Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree -- she will be celebrating a journey defined by courage,...

After leaving his graveyard shift, Daniel Cunningham doesn't head straight home to rest. Instead, the 24-year-old trades his bed for a sketchbook, roaming the busy streets of Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, quietly searching for a face willing to...

Director of the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID), Superintendent Patrae Rowe, said the heightened vigilance at Jamaica's ports has been instrumental in the seizure of illicit drugs. Approximately 50 kilogrammes of cocaine,...

As he has been doing for the past few years, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton once again used the activities around Heart Month to press the conscience of Jamaica's food industry players, renewing his call for healthier options......

(AP): Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months. The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to replace corporate workers. It.....

When Marissa* vanished from her home, her family and community launched a frantic search. Missing-person posters featuring her photo soon began circulating on social media. However, few realised that her disappearance was not accidental. She had....

As if Hurricane Melissa wasn't enough, thieves have now struck Greenwood Baptist Church, breaking in and escaping with thousands of dollars in equipment from the already damaged house of worship. Pastor Reverend Wayne Smith said the break-in...

A violent collision along the busy Stony Hill main road left two people fighting for their lives on Tuesday after a motorcycle slammed into a Toyota Prado at the Lipscombe Avenue intersection. Reports reaching THE STAR are that the crash...

A $30-million cocaine bust at Sangster International Airport has sent detectives on the hunt for a St Elizabeth farmer they believe is linked to this high-stakes drug probe. Detectives from the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID....

Residents in Kingston and St Andrew got a sudden shake-up this morning when a minor earthquake rattled parts of the Corporate Area before daybreak. The Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona, reported that the 3.6-magnitude......

Toxic relationships, stress, and unhealthy workplaces are quietly fuelling a wave of heart disease that Jamaicans cannot afford to ignore. Delivering the keynote address at the launch of Heart Month at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel yesterday, Dr....

At 100 years old, retired educator Henrietta Adina Williams measures her life not in years, but in service -- to children whose parents could not afford to pay, adults learning to read for the first time, and a community she never turned away from....