JAMAICANS LIVING IN HELL ABROAD - 23 workers crammed in shabby house in Trinidad
What was supposed to be a rewarding job experience for at least three Jamaicans turned out to be a nightmare for them in Laventille, Trinidad, last month. The three men who contacted The Star recently relayed the story of how they got a 'link'...
Police arrest racehorse jockey
Former champion jockey Everton Miller has found himself in trouble with the law and will be riding himself into the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to charges of indecent language and obstructing traffic.
Man shot dead and house set ablaze in Burnt Savannah
Gunmen left one man dead and $1.2m in damage to a house in Burnt Savannah, Westmoreland, on Friday. Firefighters from the Savanna-la-Mar Fire Department were summoned to a house fire in Prospect in Burnt Savannah about 12:30 a.m...
Rameish Simpson to return to the Gun Court
Rameish Simpson, who was rescued by minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister James Robertson, returns to the Gun Court on February 20. Simpson, from Yallahs, St Thomas, appeared on Friday where Justice Bryan Sykes...
Cop on corruption charge granted bail
Constable Conrod Collins who was arrested for breaching the Corruption Prevention Act was granted $100,00 bail in the Corporate Area Resident Magis-trate's Court on Friday.
Four killed in separate incidents on Valentine's Day
On Valentine's Day, a day set aside for love and lovers, violence claimed the lives of four men in separate incidents across the island. Thirty-six-year-old Everton 'Bucky' Robinson, a mason of Chisholm Avenue, Kingston 13, was shot...
'Buru Blacks' killed in shoot-out
One of three men who engaged the police in a shoot-out at Seaview Avenue, Albion, St James, on Saturday, was fatally shot and a home-made firearm taken from him.
Richard and Julia Lyn killers trial date set
A trial date has been set for the two men charged with the murder of Manchester couple Richard and Julia Lyn. They were murdered in December 2006 during a robbery at their home in Mandeville.
Man arrested and charged for murders
A 28-year-old man was on Friday arrested and charged for the January 25 murders of a woman and her three grandchildren at their home at Land Top, Port Morant, St Thomas.
The blessing of Brianna Brown
It was an overcast Sunday morning on February 1 when Dwight Brown and Celena Sharpe took their baby girl, Brianna Brown, to Bishop Barrington DaCosta to be blessed. When Bishop DaCosta raised the known chorus Yes Jesus Loves Me...
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