TIFFANY PRYCE STAR Writer Students of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) protested for hours today after a rape allegedly occurred on the Portland campus on Sunday. The school's administration is under fire after years of.....

A woman is in police custody after allegedly setting a man's house ablaze following a dispute between the two in which he reportedly broke her leg. Detectives assigned to the Clarendon Policing Division have charged 54-year-old Jennifer Bachan,.....

Law enforcement says they have in custody a jsutice of the peace (JP) who was arrested on Monday during a sting operation for allegedly collecting money for signing official documents. The JP was arrested for breaches of the Corruption Prevention....

A Jamaican man has been sentenced to more than five years in a United States prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding an elderly Californian woman in a long-running sweepstakes scam. Dwayne Anderson, 36, of Hannover.....

A St Catherine motorist who pleaded guilty to causing the death of his friend in a motor vehicle crash in 2021 has been fined $450,000 or 12 months in prison. A St Catherine motorist will only have to spend 12 months in prison or pay a fine of.....

A bitter fallout between two women has landed one of them in serious legal trouble, after police say she locked a former associate out of her Instagram account and used the platform to post damaging claims. Detectives assigned to the St...

Alicia*, a Jamaican woman now living in Canada, spent her life dreaming of the father she never knew. That dream turned into a nightmare. She says the man she once longed to embrace, sexually assaulted her and her sister, Despite pleading guilty....

Even as the towering Christmas tree at St William Grant Park burst into light, casting a festive glow over downtown Kingston last Tuesday night, veteran dancehall producer Patrick Roberts admitted that his Christmas cheer was dimmed. Roberts said....

A team of 25 HEART/NSTA Trust trainees is helping to advance restoration efforts at Jakes Hotel in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth. The hotel was badly hit during the passage of Category Five Hurricane Melissa on October 28. The trainees were...

The Urban Development Corporation says that it has suspended internal staff celebrations, but is still hosting its fireworks shows on New Year's Eve. In a press release issued yesterday, the entity said that suspending its own internal events was....

Twenty-three-year-old Nolando Atkinson, a construction worker of Boscobel View, St Mary, has been charged with the murder of another prisoner following an incident at the Annotto Bay Police Station lock-up on December 6. Dead is 34-year-old...

From helping families rebuild after house fires to providing essential medical care for those who could not afford it, N.C.B. Foundation is opening its 13th Grant a Wish season with $8.5 million set aside to help uplift Jamaicans once again. This....

The Christmas season took on a special meaning this year as the Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF) hosted its annual Christmas Treat, 'Make a Wish' Edition, at Buzzers Portmore, spreading festive joy to 59 wards of the State from Western Jamaica...

America wins f-bomb Olympics A massive new linguistic deep-dive has crowned Americans as the world's biggest users of the f-word, beating both Britain and Australia in sheer volume. But when it comes to creativity, the Aussies still reign...

Jamaicans already feeling the squeeze are set to feel it even more, as electricity bills jump by seven per cent this December, for November's electricity consumption, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says. "This adjustment was...

Police in Portland are probing the alleged rape of a female College of Agriculture Science and Education student following a frightening incident on the institution's campus on Sunday night. Detectives attached to the Port Antonio Criminal...

A St Mary construction worker has been charged with the murder of a fellow inmate following a deadly incident at the Annotto Bay Police Station lock-up. Twenty-three-year-old Nolando Atkinson, of Boscobel View, St Mary, was formally charged...

A life already battered by natural disaster has taken a criminal turn for one Jamaican fisherman, who lost his home in Hurricane Melissa and is now serving a sentence in the Cayman Islands for drug smuggling. Eric Junior Cunningham, 42, was...

A costly family lesson played out in court when a man was ordered to pay his former daughter in law nearly one million dollars after taking advice from his stepson and refusing to repay money spent fixing his car. The ruling was handed down by......

The sudden death of media executive Anthony Smith has sent waves of grief across the nation, with Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister Olivia Grange among those expressing deep sorrow. Smith died on Sunday following a brief...