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Meal kit delivery services are quite popular today. Some subscriptions require a minimum number of meals ordered and all deliver at the same time. A meal kit service where a meal can be picked up near your office or home would offer the flexibility to cook a healthy meal for your family when it is c...
An Old Harbour man who in 2019 killed the 17-year-old mother of his child and buried her in his duck pen before going on the lam, yesterday tearfully apologised to her parents after he was sentenced to 14 years and four months behind bars at hard labour for manslaughter. According to details shared....
Professor Clive Landis, Chairman of the University of the West Indies COVID-19 Task Force, believes Jamaica could see a significant drop in hospitalisation within six weeks of vaccinating the elderly population. The number of people hospitalised has become a major worry for health authorities in rec...
Cabinet is to receive a report on Monday on the new policy for the importation of chicken neck and back. Agriculture Minister Floyd Green on Thursday told Parliament’s Standing Finance Committee that an investigation has been completed. Last year, the Integrity Commission recommended in a report t...
(The Den) The police late Thursday(March 4) confirmed that a man was fatally shot during a confrontation with the officers in Portmore in St. Catherine earlier in the day. According to the police, firearm and several rounds of ammunition were seized in the incident. Detectives are at this hour worki...
(The Den) Family members of 36-year-old Nicola Gibson-Campbell, a mother of three, were left heartbroken after she was gunned down while in her yard on Tuesday (March 02). One of Gibson-Campbell’s cousins told The Den that the tragic incident has left the entire family in a state of shock. “It.....
The Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson has given directions that a policeman seen in a viral video in a “compromising position” be interdicted with immediate effect. The video has been making the rounds on social media. The policeman, who was dressed in uniform, was recorded d...
Bunny Wailer, one of the foremost legends of Jamaica’s reggae music and a founding member of The Wailer’s, has died at the age of 73. The Trench Town native, whose given name is Neville Livingston, died at hospital this morning. In 2017, the Jamaican Government of Jamaica awarded him the Order o...
There was a multi-million dollar co***ne seizure at Kingston Freeport Terminal on Monday. The co***ne was found on a ship which arrived from Panama. About 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the police and a team from Jamaica Customs Agency discovered 306 pounds of the narcotics in 122 packages stored in ...
The police are conducting an investigation after a video surfaced on social media showing what appears to be a man using a firearm to threaten a woman and a child who were in a car. The Jamaica Constabulary Force is asking the maker of the video or witnesses to contact it immediately. In the video a...
Jamaica will receive considerably fewer doses of vaccines in its first shipment under the Covax facility than was originally announced. Early last month Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton had announced that Jamaica was set to receive 146,000 to 249,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, by mid to...
Effective Thursday (March 4), all persons entering the country (both Jamaicans and non-nationals) will be required to present a negative coronavirus (COVID-19) test at check-in for their flights. The test must be conducted within 72 hours prior to the date of travel. This was announced by Prime Mini...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new and stricter COVID-19 measures under the Disaster Risk Management Act, effective March 1. The Government has implemented these measures amid an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. According to Prime Minister Holness, the Government has been forced t...
As Joanne Gordon clenched a necklace she now wears in memory of her late son Dillon ‘KC’ Walters, she couldn’t stop the rush of tears which flowed down her cheeks. Walters was murdered a day after his birthday, and Gordon, 45, informed THE STAR that she witnessed him take his last breath. Walt...
The Government has announced that it has reached a deal with the African Medical Supply Platform for the delivery of 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, starting next month. The announcement comes as the Holness administration is under pressure to commence vaccination against the disease that ha...
There is growing outrage at the operators of the East-West leg of Highway 2000 after a policeman who was stabbed some 14 times in an encounter with a gunman near the May Pen toll plaza was reportedly denied emergency access to turn back to get to the May Pen Hospital on Saturday. The injured cop, [....
Thirty-nine-year-old Nadeen Geddes yesterday pleaded guilty in the Hillary session of the Trelawny Circuit Court to the murder of her sister, 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, who was shot in her bedroom in the Reserve community in the parish last year. The 36-year-old Geddes was reportedly gunned down in....
The police have arrested and charged an alleged car thief in relation to an incident in Gutter’s, Old Harbour, St Catherine last year. He is 24-year-old Kemar Brown otherwise called ‘Blacks’ of Hazard Drive, May Pen in Clarendon. He has been charged with robbery with aggravation and illegal po...
The legal team of Dante Brooks, the son of Jamaican dancehall star Mavado, plans to appeal the teenager’s murder conviction which was handed down Wednesday. Asked if the defence planned to appeal the verdict, attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie replied with an emphatic: “absolutely!”. Brooks, 18,...
A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) lieutenant and a female officer under his command have both been found guilty of contravening the army’s policy on personal relationship and fraternisation following a probe into allegations of inappropriate conduct. The lieutenant, who was given the maximum fine unde...
The sport and entertainment sectors, which have suffered severely because of the distancing requirements which form part of measures to contain spread of the novel coronavirus, will get some relief in the coming weeks. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, speaking during yesterday’s meeting of the House...
There is an early breakthrough in the chilling case of the hacking to death of three homeless men in downtown Kingston. A fourth homeless man was killed in southern St Andrew. Two injured homeless men who were found at a Constant Spring Road plaza and on Derrymore Road in the St Andrew Central Polic...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding and Prime Minister Andrew Holness traded barbs in Parliament on Tuesday over the country’s crime management and the mystery plane that crash-landed in Rocky Point, Clarendon, at the weekend. The occupants of the plane are still missing and no cargo was found on board...
The Ministry of Health & Wellness has disclosed a range of measures aimed at corralling the spread of COVID-19 cases in schools, forcing a retreat from face-to-face classes. The measures have been triggered by a number of COVID-19 infections across the island, which have disrupted reopening in some....
Days after tighter strictures were placed on Manchester to contain the worrying spike in COVID-19 numbers, some areas of national life are being given a reprieve following intense lobbying. Effective February 1, churches will have the green light to host funerals. According to Prime Minister Andrew....
The police are probing a deadly attack in the community of Simon in Content, St. Catherine on Tuesday night. A woman was killed and her house set ablaze. She has been identified as 53-year-old Lorraine Foster. Shortly after 8 o’clock, Ms Foster was home with her children when armed thugs entered. ...
Quick action by the St Catherine South Police resulted in two would-be killers being fatally shot during a confrontation with the police on Caymanas Drive, St. Catherine on Wednesday, January 20. Two illegal fi****ms were also seized. About 1:30 pm the police intercepted a Silver Nissan Wingroad mot...
Claudius Brown, the ex-cop who has a master’s degree and wanted to become a taxi driver this year, is no longer homeless. Brown, whose story The Gleaner recently captured, was deported from the US in 2006 for overstaying after visiting his sick father and for several years had been living at the O...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) yesterday broke its silence on the allegations of sexual harassment of a woman soldier by her male superior which came to public attention in this week’s Sunday Observer. Lieutenant Nathan Curtis, acting civil military cooperation officer, who last week declined to ...
Contraband and customs officers unveiled an elaborate ruse to smuggle guns and ammunition in a refrigerator through a Montego Bay wharf as a police campaign to crack down on illegal weapons reaped rewards on Monday. Three high-powered rifles, two 9mm handguns, and more than 100 rounds of ammo wer...
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