A major driving force behind Shanique Sommerville's quest to become an attorney-at-law is to put her community, Peggy Barry district in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, on the map. She also has a steely determination to make her family proud....

Stunned by the backlash to which their boy, Antonio Watson, was subjected following his 'gun finger' celebration at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships last weekend, the teenager's guardians say he has never been one to.....

A two-year-old was reportedly shot and injured on Thursday night during a confrontation between an unidentified man and the police in Denham Town, west Kingston. The man was shot and killed during the confrontation. According to the police's...

The Portland police say Wednesday night's massive haul of compressed ganja, weighing 3,369 kilograms or 7411.8 pounds, which was found at a beach in Bryan's Bay, has an estimated street value of J$17 million. Superintendent Duane Wellington,...

To some, the name Poor Man's Corner may suggest a hangout for the impoverished, but for the people who live or traverse this bustling area in Yallahs, St Thomas, it is anything but destitute. This small community has developed into a busy...

The Anchovy police in St James have launched an investigation surrounding the death of a man whose decomposed body was fished from a water tank in Top Eden on Wednesday. He has been identified as 39-year-old Donovan Thompson, otherwise called '......

Detectives attached to the Major Investigation Division (MID) in Trelawny have charged a St James man with the March 2020 murder of an American tourist in Montego Bay. The accused, Soniman Walker, 21, otherwise called 'Soniman' or 'Shortman' of a....

Scot Bamburry, resident of Wood Hall in Clarendon, is today a happy man. In a May 7 feature in THE WEEKEND STAR, he expressed frustration in not finding a job in the field he was trained for at the Caribbean Maritime University. Bamburry graduated....

A man who was expected to finish his sentence by next week, was ordered to spend an additional month in jail when he appeared before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Lincoln Johnson, 19, pleaded guilty to the charge of taking......

A man who lost a tooth during a brawl with police is expected to return to court on June 17, to answer to various charges. Shaquille Byfield appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday for charges of escaping custody, failure......

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams, says that almost 150,000 technology devices will be in the hands of needy students islandwide, through various programmes and initiatives, by the end of the 2021/22 school year. She was....

ROME (AP) -- A global health summit that underlined the growing disparity between rich and poor countries during the pandemic closed Friday with pledges by pharmaceutical companies to deliver more than 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to...

Thirty at-risk young persons from several communities in the Corporate Area will benefit from training opportunities provided under the Kingston leg of the Truck Driver Simulator Training Programme. The cohort consists of three females and 27 males...

A 24-hour dedicated helpline has been established to assist children and teenagers experiencing challenges or who may be feeling overwhelmed with adapting to changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The facility, the Safe Spot National Child and....

A 65-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man from St Catherine, are the two latest Jamaicans to die as a result of COVID-19, increasing the death tally to 904. Three more fatalities are under investigation, and another death has been classified as...

The police are probing an incident in which a 59-year-old man allegedly committed suicide on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Patrick Scott, a labourer of Lessing Avenue, Brook Valley, Kingston 20. Reports from the Hunt Bay police are.....

Two baby brothers perished in a fire which destroyed their home at Barrett Hall in Lilliput, St James, yesterday after their mother left them alone in the dwelling and went to a nearby shop. The bodies of the boys, Aden Flowers, three, and his...

Angry residents in Great River, Hanover, have launched a manhunt for a man who they say set his girlfriend on fire after dousing her with gasolene yesterday. Reports are that the couple, who operate a car wash and bar in Great River, have...

Sainna Christian, 23, is a history-making Jamaican, having been named one of three valedictorians of the LeMoyne-Owen College in Tennessee, USA. Christian and two other women attained a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0, resulting in a tie for...

The mother of 18-year-old Oneil Chambers, who was shot in a confrontation with police on Tuesday night in Greenwich Town, Kingston, is adamant that her son was not a wrongdoer. "Him never yet in any trouble, nobody never come to me yet bout him......