September 13, 2013
Star News


Bob Marley 'dissed' - Reggae icon statue defaced
“Uncertainty looms over what has led to the defacement of the life-sized bronze statue of iconic reggae legend Bob Marley in Celebrity Park outside the National Stadium..... read more
COPS QUIZ LABOUR MINISTRY WORKERS - As probe continues in overseas job scam

Fraud Squad detectives yesterday swooped down on two offices of the Ministry of Labour and temporarily detained two employees for questioning as they continue investigations into an overseas job employment scam...

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Demonstration planned in London for slain relative

A demonstration is being planned by a number of persons in London, England, over the December 17, 2011 murder of 59-year-old retiree Errol Bennett Sr in Hector's River, Portland, due to a delay of the murder trial....

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58-y-o missing

Fifty-eight-year-old Jeffery Mannings, otherwise called 'Brown Man', of Tom's River district, St Andrew, has been missing since August, 2013....

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Main suspect in murder case killed in lock-up

The prisoner killed during the melee at the Mandeville police lock-up on Wednesday was the main suspect behind last Friday's gun attack on a Clarendon family...

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Digicel offers internships to special-needs students

Twenty-year-old Rashanique Rodgers, a student of the Genesis Academy in Kingston, is beaming with confidence following her recent internship at the Digicel Foundation...

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Man fined for assaulting babymother

A man who used a pool cue stick to hit his child's mother after she allegedly prevented him from seeing his daughter was fined $30,000 or two months' imprisonment....

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Clarendon dressmaker dies from smoke inhalation

The Spaldings police have reported that there was no foul play in the death of a 54-year-old woman who was found dead at her Low Wood residence in Clarendon on August 17....

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Victim begs for biting lover

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Man faces trial for allegedly breaking mentally ill's arm

WESTERN BUREAU: A St James man, who allegedly broke a mentally ill woman's arm last October, will stand trial in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, November 26, when the case against him is set to continue....

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Construction worker remanded

A man, who claimed that it was shock that caused him to hold his child's mother at knifepoint, was remanded in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

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Yam thief gets one year

A Trelawny man, who raided a yam field in the parish more than six months ago, was last Thursday sentenced to a year at hard labour, after being convicted under the Praedial Larceny Act for stealing 80 pounds...

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Accused thief to return to court

A man who has been charged in connection to the theft of several items from a superstore was ordered to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on October 24...

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Father accused of burning baby's clothes ordered to pay

There was drama in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday after a man, who is accused of destroying his baby's clothes and assaulting his pregnant babymother, was offered...

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Jamaica ranked 75th happiest country

Jamaica has been ranked the 75th happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Happiness Report of 2013 released on Monday by Columbia University's Earth Institute....

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Man accused of killing son remanded

A man who allegedly killed his two-year-old son was remanded when he appeared in court on Monday....

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