Threatened with a lawsuit from several environmental organizations, the city and state have agreed in principal to upgrade sewage treatment plants on Jamaica Bay in the hope of improving water...

THE ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday poured scorn on statements by Jamaica Police Federation chairman Sergeant Raymond Wilson, describing them as "a shameful display of political...

HEAD OF the National Education Trust (NET), Paul Matalon, says there have been several expressions of interest from the private sector to partner with Government to build schools. The NET is charged...

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Heather Dehaney, a grade one teacher at Cockburn Gardens Primary and Junior High Schools in St Andrew gets her classroom ready for the new school year on...

TWO DAYS after head of the Police Federation peppered the Bruce Golding-led administration at its annual conference, General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Karl Samuda yesterday hit back...

Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, (right) head of the European Union Delegation in Jamaica, and Anthony Hylton (left), member of parliament for Western St Andrew, break ground for the construction...

Dustin Brown of Jamaica follows through on a serve to Andy Murray of Britain during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 3,...

* Fourth seed makes quick work of 123rd-ranked Jamaican * Overcomes rain delay and opponent's go-for-broke style (Adds detail, quotes) ...

No.4 seed Andy Murray battled Hurricane Earl and Jamaican Dustin Brown to reach the third round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows. The Briton was expected to sweep past the unconventional Brown...

Dustin Brown 7-5, 6-3, 6-0 to move into the third round of the U.S. Open. The fourth-seeded Murray is seeking to make his second U.S. Open final in three years. He won this year’s U.S. Open...

Fourth-seeded Andy Murray of Britain dodged some rain drops and some sizzling serves before quickly reaching the third round by outshining Jamaican Dustin Brown 7-5 6-3 6-0 at the US Open. Murray...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fourth-seeded Andy Murray of Britain dodged some rain drops and some sizzling serves before quickly reaching the third round by outshining Jamaican Dustin Brown 7-5 6-3 6-0 at...

Andy Murray of Britain comes to the net on a return to Dustin Brown of Jamaica during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 3,...

"That is perjury," Neville Arthurs said when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magis-trate's Court yesterday, charged with robbery with aggravation. He told the court that he did not commit...

A 16-year-old boy is dead following a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Development Road and Bell Road, near the Three Miles area, of St Andrew,...

Family and friends of a man who suddenly collapsed and died at a church in central Kingston yesterday, believe ghosts may be responsible for his death."Wah day yah me and him inna di house and di...

The Area Three police are planning to take steps to stop a trend where a number of men in a Clarendon community are soliciting sexual services from a homeless woman.THE WEEKEND STAR was recently...

The WEEKEND STAR has received unconfirmed reports that a well known homosexual, who plies his trade in downtown Kingston, as a nail technician, was recently beaten by a mob after he was apparently...

Sadness was etched on the faces of police personnel who looked at the spot where a policeman drowned yesterday in the Rio Cobre near Gordon Pen, St...

The labour and social security ministry yesterday issued a warning to business owners to be on the look-out for fraudulent Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) cheques which...

The killing which took place on Wednesday night, plunge the staff into mourning. The worker killed was Michael Murray, a 48-year-old security guard. He was killed with Kirk 'Tougher' Dunn, 32, of...

A 57-year-old man was caught attempting to board a British Airways flight at the Norman Manley International Airport with cocaine will be sentenced today.On August 27, Hugh Rose, a British citizen...

Rasbert Turner, Star Writer With complaints continue to file in from business persons, motorists and other users of the roads, the St Catherine Parish Council said vendors must move from the...

The Duhaney Park police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 44-year-old Eleanor Bailey of Lowell Avenue in Duhaney Park, Kingston 20. She was reportedly attacked and stabbed...

A man who told the court that he hit the mother of his child because she provoked him will have to pay a fine of $5,000 or serve two months in...

My mother's past is terrible and is much more than what I am saying now, but I have to let you and the entire Jamaica know because I feel as though I cannot deal with this matter on my own, knowing...

Charged with assault occasioning bodily harm is Seresa Mundell. Seresa pleaded guilty with explanation, telling the court that her sister caused constant trouble. Seresa said she saw it fit to...

Moving a child from one institution to another may sometimes prove to be a challenging undertaking for both parents and children. Children may experience anxiety and fear when they are removed from...

Children in and around communities located downtown Kingston, had a grand time Wednesday at a back-to-school treat organised by Inspector Percival Buddan, the officer in charge of the City Centre...

Several employees suspended without pay from their positions at a direct care facility in Ozone Park claim they were targeted because they were trying to form a union, a charge the company has...

New York, Sep 3: Jamaican tennis star Dustin Brown has said that he is excited about facing World No. 4 Andy Murray in their second-round US Open clash...

KINGSTON (JIS) - Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has assured that the Government is not interested in getting into a quarrel...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Education Minister Andrew Holness is advocating for parents who refuse to send their children to school to be arrested and charged. Holness, who was speaking Wednesday at a...