Nigel Angus, manager for dancehall artiste, Dovey Magnum, has confirmed that his client is no longer in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This follows a post made to the Bawl Out singer's official Instagram page,...

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has stepped up his lobby for players in the global community to make their voices heard about the issue of vaccine equity and its implications for global economic recovery, as well as the full restoration of the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Friday said tobacco use remains a public health problem in the Caribbean region as it urged regional countries make every effort to strengthen multi-...

LONDON (AP) -- British government regulators on Friday authorised another coronavirus vaccine for use in the UK amid concerns about rising COVID-19 cases as a variant of the virus first identified in India spreads around the country. The...

The Tourism Product Development Company Ltd (TPDCo) has withdrawn Rick's Cafe's COVID-19 compliance certification with immediate effect. TPDCo says Rick's Cafe will be required to undergo a re-certification exercise...

Jamaica on Thursday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 936. The deceased is a 79-year-old man from St Ann. One more fatality is under investigation, moving that figure to 145. Meanwhile, there were 108 new cases with ages...

Tourist hotspot Rick's Cafe, located in Negril, Westmoreland, has admitted to breaching the island's COVID-19 safety laws after videos emerged on Thursday of beachgoers frolicking at a Mocha Fest party. "We acknowledge the Mocha Fest...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says an investigation will be launched into a party series in Negril. Outrage intensified Thursday evening when it emerged that the seven-day Mocha Fest event, which started on May 24, was being advertised on the...

The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) says it is extremely disappointed to learn from videos in circulation on various social media platforms that proper observance of COVID-19 protocols was not in full compliance during an event held at Rick's Caf...

Lolleta Scarlett, the mother of Nicola Clarke, the Hanover woman who was set on fire allegedly by her boyfriend on May 19, said her daughter was given only three days to live by doctors at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH). But this was not to....

Aleena Brown, who at one point slept on the floor with her mother and siblings, has risen like a phoenix, having been accepted at the prestigious Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Brown, 19, of Main Street, Bog Walk, St Catherine, is...

After escaping death by the gun twice, O'Neil Buckle, 46, who hails from Rockfort in east Kingston, said he decided to walk away from a life of gang violence. The former gangster, who is now a mason, is appealing to Jamaican youth to resist the.....

Illegal dumping of debris along sections of the Bull Bay roadway in St Andrew by truck drivers has so far cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Speaking with THE WEEKEND STAR, Stephen Shaw, the National Works Agency's communications director,...

Dudley Carter, who is battling B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is in need of life-saving medication and is seeking the public's assistance in funding the cost. Currently a patient at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), Carter's wife Michelle told.....

It has been almost two weeks since Anthony Watt, a 54-year-old goat farmer, was shot and killed on his property in McVickers Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Speaking with THE WEEKEND STAR yesterday, his son Tony Watt said he is still in...

Relatives of a Hanover man who was allegedly tied up and his two feet set on fire by his fellow inmates while in lock-up, are now seeking justice. One relative told THE WEEKEND STAR that the man was picked up by police at his home and later...

A woman who was beaten up by her babyfather yesterday begged the judge not to send him to prison as he is the primary caregiver of their child. Herman Robinson pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm yesterday in the Kingston and St...

Dwayne Black, a 38-year-old businessman, was shot and killed yesterday morning at the intersection of Luke Lane and North Street in downtown Kingston. "Di only thing mi hear after mi pick him up was two loud groans and him just gone after that,".....

Kevanna Ricketts believes that she brings a unique flavour to style and fashion. The 22-year-old Montego Bay, St James resident said she has always had a love for fashion. "Unprofessionally, my entire life I have been into clothes," the past...

Fifty-year-old Devon Blake is now safe and dry from the leaky nightmare he suffered at the slightest drizzle on the roof of his home at Bamboo Ridge, St Catherine. That change in fortune came courtesy of a pre-Labour Day house-building project...