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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:54 -0500
Shocker at STETHS - Garvey Maceo, Manning’s upset CC, Dinthill in daCosta semis
Western Bureau: Defending Champions Clarendon College (CC) and Dinthill Technical, another of this season's favourites, were beaten in the ISSA daCosta Cup semi-finals at the STETHS Sports Complex in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, yesterday. Garvey...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:55 -0500
Chef murdered at bar
A 21-year-old chef is the 10th person to be murdered in the parish of St James, since the start of 2022. He has been identified as Dimitri Dawson, otherwise called 'Dimi', of Bread Lane in Paradise, Norwood. Reports by the Montego Hills police...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:52 -0500
Cop suffers broken bones in crash
The rush to respond to a domestic dispute in a rural St Catherine community resulted in the hospitalisation of a policeman after the vehicle he was driving overturned. The incident occurred last Thursday in the Glengoffe district of the St...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:52 -0500
Runaway teen and boyfriend murdered
A 15-year-old student who ran away from her home in St James more than six months ago, and her boyfriend were discovered shot to death in a house in Roehampton in the parish on Wednesday morning. The teen, Toni-Ann Antoinette Reid, and Oshane...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:51 -0500
Combo party to offer COVID vaccines
Party promoter Shanice 'Combo Boss' Wilson says that the second staging of her party will involve a mini COVID-19 vaccination blitz. "Mi have people a come on board with mi so all a who wah get dem jook can come and get dem vaccine. Mi also ago.....

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:50 -0500
Civil servants wary of mandatory vaccination-or-test policy
President of the Jamaica Civil Servants Association (JCSA), O'Neil Grant, believes that a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine-or-test policy for public sector workers may result in legal battles. He told THE STAR that through the Public Sector Monitoring.....

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:47 -0500
Don’t fear the crocodiles – NEPA rep
Treya Picking, an environmental officer at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), is advising residents of Montego Bay not to be alarmed by crocodiles living in the western city's lagoon near the Bogue community. This follows...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:45 -0500
ONE-MINUTE READS ... News from across Jamaica
More tablets coming The Ministry of Education and Youth, through e-Learning Jamaica Limited, will be procuring 42,311 devices for lower primary and secondary students. Fayval Williams, the country's education minister, said that e-Learning...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:01:44 -0500
Mother pleads for return of son’s body
Convinced that her missing son Omario Williams was murdered, Francine Tomlinson said she is appealing to residents of a Kingston community to assist her in locating his remains. Williams, who was 17 when he disappeared, went missing on September....

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:06:13 -0500
Double murder in St James
The police were alerted this morning to a home in St James where the bodies of a young girl, who was said to be missing from last year, and a man were found. Deceased are 15-year-old Toni-Ann Reid, and Oshane Spence, otherwise called 'Private...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:22:53 -0500
Police seize illegal firearm in St James
The police in St James this morning recovered an illegal gun and several rounds of ammunition in the community of Rose Heights community. It is reported that about 6:00 a.m., police personnel were on mobile patrol when they observed a man allegedly....

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:21:26 -0500
Former permanent secretary’s son killed in T&T
Godfrey Perkins, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Mining and Energy, was at peace when his son Garth told him that he was quietly enjoying the recent Christmas season. Perkins said he was satisfied, as any parent would be, that his son....

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:38 -0500
Woman regrets TikTok video - Insists she needs chickens and not men
A Clarendon woman who went viral in a TikTok video in which she declared that she is "looking for someone who could take care of me" said that she has been bombarded with phone calls from horny men. The woman, Nelly, told THE STAR that she said......

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:50 -0500
JRC boss expects more passengers for student train
General Manager at the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) Donald Hanson says he has high hopes for the school train for the rest of this week. The long-awaited train service that transports students to Spanish Town from Old Harbour and Linstead.....

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:49 -0500
Five gov’t vehicles disappear into thin air
Four buses that were loaned to the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) by the Ministry of Transport and Mining (MTM) have gone missing, a report from the auditor general's department claims. Another vehicle from the ministry's fleet cannot be...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:49 -0500
Popular disc jockey mourns wife’s death
A tearful Bruce Lee said he will never forget the days when his late wife, Alecia Hamilton, would walk with him for miles to parties as he tried to make a name for himself in the music industry. Hamilton reportedly died while undergoing heart...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:47 -0500
Hospitalisations soar during COVID fourth wave
As the daily number of infections and positivity rate soars to an all-time high, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has maintained that there will be no adjustment to the existing COVID-19 containment measures to restrict the spread of the deadly virus....

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:44 -0500
Termites eating down schools
Termites have taken up residence in one of the country's newly built public schools, forcing administrators to delay the return of its students to face-to-face classes. The unnamed school, according to education minister Fayval Williams, is one......

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:40 -0500
Holness says no to tighter curfew hours - ... Unvaccinated public sector workers to be subjected to COVID testing
Tighter curfew hours has joined lockdowns as a COVID-19 containment tool that has been thrown out by the Andrew Holness-led Government, which has insisted that Jamaicans must learn to live with the novel coronavirus. Nightly curfews now start of.....

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:01:39 -0500
Golding brands Cabinet reshuffle as trivial
Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding has criticised the new Cabinet organised by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, saying it was a fairly trivial exercise. "If you ask yourself the question, will it lead to better healthcare outcomes? The answer......



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