The E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) pilot programme will this weekend face its sternest test as operations expand across all 14 parishes, in keeping with the island-wide rollout announced in the House of Representatives by Prime...

(AP) - New coronavirus cases across the United States have tumbled to rates not seen in more than 11 months, sparking optimism that vaccination campaigns are stemming both severe COVID-19 cases and the spread of the virus. As cases,...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says the Government is committed to making 30,000 low-income housing solutions available over the next five years, giving all Jamaicans a chance to be in compliance with the law. The Prime Minister, who was speaking......

Eight more Jamaicans have died as a result of COVID-19, increasing the death tally to 912. The deceased include four persons from St James, two men aged 74 and 67, and two women aged 91 and 66. Two women from Westmoreland aged 92 and 86, an 84-year....

A joint police/military operation in Santoy, Hanover on Friday, has resulted in two men being arrested in connection with the seizure of one Glock 9mm pistol with a magazine containing thirteen 9mm rounds. Reports from the Lucea police are that...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The husband of the missing Jamaican woman whose body was found Friday in a heavily wooded area of an East Hartford park in Connecticut, United States, was charged hours later with manslaughter in connection with...

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......

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....

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...