A confessed cocaine user was sentenced to two years' imprisonment when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday for slashing a man and stealing his phone. Tamoo Lindsay, 45, pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation and.....

A Hanover farmer, who is known for benevolence, has been left destitute after a massive fire destroyed her farm earlier this year. Nadine Watson-Bowen and her husband had been living off their farm in Miles Town for years, but the January fire...

Kevin Hart can make us laugh and cry, it seems, even if the vehicle was practically engineered to bring on the waterworks. In Fatherhood, that drops on Netflix today, he plays a new dad whose wife dies shortly after childbirth and he's left...

Ashley Crossdale, 26, who lived on Delacree Lane in Kingston 11, died in a most bizarre manner on Sunday, June 13, five days after doctors discovered that the child she was carrying perished in her womb. A sister who gave her name as Gizzy, said.....

Disbarred attorney Jennifer Messado has yet again found herself before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to answer to fraud charges. Messado straggled to the prisoner's dock yesterday and hung her head as allegations were read against her......

A St Elizabeth farmer who lost 17 heads of goat in one night has vowed to continue in agriculture, despite the major setback. Matthew Clarke, of Treasure Beach in the parish, said the goats were found dead in his field on June 4. He estimated...

Icema Richardson could not have asked for a better partner than Lucan Johnson, and Akili Chambers could not have found a more supportive stepfather. Johnson, 39, came into their lives after Chambers' father died. The boy, who is physically...

Residents at Dump in St Mary are worried about the possibility of rodent infestation due to a pile-up of uncollected garbage in their community. "Unless they come and collect the garbage that is piling up, rats will take us over," said Tadrea...

Students and teachers of the Hall's Delight and Westphalia primary schools in East Rural St Andrew now have access to modern sanitary facilities. The pit latrines at the institutions were replaced with new sanitation blocks, with flush toilets,......

While journeying through Duff House in Manchester, it is hard not to notice the vast fields of fruits, vegetables and condiments under cultivation. Farming for the residents here is serious business. Walter Samuda and Simon Christian, an uncle-......

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, announcing that 300 million vaccine shots have been administered in the 150 days since he took office. Biden...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that the road through the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine will be closed this Sunday, June 20, 2021. NWA communication and customer services manager, Stephen Shaw, says that the works to be undertaken on......

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, is appealing for continued adherence to the COVID-19 health and safety measures during the summer period. "We are going into a danger period...

TORONTO (AP) -- Border restrictions on nonessential travel with the United States will be extended until July 21, officials said Wednesday, as Canada works to get a higher percentage of Canadians fully vaccinated. Public Safety Minister Bill...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded five COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 1,028. All five of the deceased are men, three from the parish of St James, two aged 66 and an 86-year-old, whose deaths were previously under investigation, and...

Four men were arrested on Thursday, in connection with the seizure of one 9mm Bursa 9mm pistol with a magazine containing twelve 9mm rounds of ammunition, and an extra magazine which contained thirteen 9mm rounds of ammunition, during an operation.....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Black Americans rejoiced after President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, but some said that, while they appreciated the recognition at a time of racial reckoning in America, more is needed to change policies...

Reuben Williams, a local obeah man, said he is calling on popular clergyman Reverend Mark Stewart to conduct a seven-day march on the 'haunted' Flat Bridge. Williams told THE STAR that he saw the need for the march following the recent deaths of....

The Sandy Bay police in Hanover have commenced an investigation to determine how a man who went missing from his home in Cacoon Castle on Sunday night ended up floating lifelessly in a water hole in the community on Tuesday morning. The deceased.....

David Pinto did pottery as an extracurricular activity while attending high school in England, but decades later, the passion has not died. Pinto, who was born in Jamaica, admits that after completing his degree in industrial design at the Rhode.....