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A tree smashed into the windscreen of a police service vehicle in St Mary on Saturday leaving the officer on board with minor injures. Following the incident, which took place along the main road in Broadgate, Corporal Kevin Green was taken to the Annotto Bay hospital and treated for injuries to his shoulder. “Corporal Green was in Broadgate, heading back to Castleton from Port Maria, when he heard something coming down from the hill and as he tried to pass. A tree fell right on top of him, smashing the windscreen," Sergeant Christopher Ward, officer in charge of Castleton Police Station, told THE STAR ONLINE. <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- infosystv_sidebar-left-1_AdSense25_250x250_as --> <ins class="adsbygoogle"      style="display:inline-block;width:250px;height:250px"      data-ad-client="ca-pub-4287717115625316"      data-ad-slot="87373355

A former member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said Jamaicans should revolt if harm comes to any resident in St Ann as a result of statements made by Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller. Simpson Miller last week made statements, which have been inflammatory in some quarters, while speaking at a political meeting in Claremont, St Ann. The People's National Party (PNP) president, who is the Member of Parliament for the garrison constituency of South West St Andrew, warned detractors that "I will come back here for another meeting and I know who I will bring". In a video post, which has been making waves on social media, the former cop noted that Jamaica has had a long history of crime being influenced by politicians. He suggested that Simpson Miller was reckless and that persons may be influenced to act on her behalf. "I hope the country have an uprising if anything happens to anybody in St Ann," the former cop said. Simpson Miller had journeyed to Cl

Militants from the Jaish al-Fatah (or Army of Conquest) terrorist group gather in position on November 3, 2016 at an entrance to Aleppo, in the southwestern frontline. (Photos by AFP) Syria’s envoy to the UN says that Saudi Arabia has gathered terrorists from all over the world and exported them to his country. “They have exported their terror to us. They brought terrorists to us from all over the world,” said Bashar al-Ja'afari (seen below) while addressing the United Nations Security Council on Monday. Saudi Arabia and its regional allies, particularly Turkey and Qatar, are widely reported to be supporting the militants fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011. “The terrorists are the Takfiris, the Takfiri terrorists that are influenced by the Saudi Wahabi thinking. What Daesh and al-Nusra do corresponds exactly to the very same ideas prevailing in Saudi Arabia,” he added. Ja'afari also condemned allegations made by the US’s UN e

Actor Keith 'Shebada' Ramsay has come out swinging after some people on social media branded him a scammer when he created a GoFundMe page recently, seeking cash donations. He told THE WEEKEND STAR that the page was created to assist the senior citizens of Franklin Town in Kingston. "Mi nuh need fi come as scammer because if a dat mi did a do, mi wud a dweet incognito! Everybody knows I have my career working on like everybody else, and because fans have been telling me to come on Facebook live, I said I would use it as an opportunity to launch my charity. That charity now, I will use to help the old people in Franklin Town," he said. Shebada said that he made the decision to make his social media presence worthwhile, unlike the 'Facebook trappers'. "Which artiste yuh know going to come online entertaining when they have other stuff to do, hmm? I have a job and this is not a paid gig, and I still have to fund what I'm doing regarding credit and all th

Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Scene of Crime personnel process a multiple shooting on Sligoville main road in the Thompson Pen community, where four patrons were shot at a bar by gunmen. The incident occured at approximately 12:30 p.m. Three men were killed in Thompson Pen, St Catherine, on Sunday, following an attack on a bar by armed thugs. The victims have been identified as Alex McKenzie, 18; Shamar Atkinson, 17, otherwise called 'Smokey'; and 24-year-old Rohan Smith, otherwise called 'Higgler' of Thompson Pen. A fourth man was shot and injured. It is said that the attack may have been a reprisal for the murder of a GraceKennedy employee Kevin Monroe, who was killed in Jones Avenue earlier. The police confirmed that at about 2 a.m. on Sunday, explosions were heard at Monroe's home. The police were called and upon the arrival, his body was found with numerous gunshot wounds. The triple murder occurred at a sports b

A man accused of stabbing another caused the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to erupt in laughter on Friday when he offered a unique response to the judge after he was asked to enter a plea. When prosecutors read out the allegations behind the charge of unlawful wounding to the accused, Davis Grant, and asked if he was guilty or not guilty, Grant responded with a screwed face saying, "No comment". Laughter erupted in the courtroom for a moment, and after order returned, the presiding judge said she will enter a not guilty plead until the accused man returns to court with a lawyer. Allegations are that on September 3, Grant used a knife to stab the complainant in his side and cut him on his arm. The medical in the matter is still outstanding. The accused was remanded in custody until the matter is to called up again on November 24.

Three US police officer were targeted in separate ambush attacks on Sunday. (File photo) One US police officer has been killed and two more have been injured as the results of two separate ambush-style attacks in Texas, Florida and Missouri. The first attack took place in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday, when a police detective was shot and killed in his squad car during a traffic stop, according to authorities. Police Chief William McManus said the assailant pulled over behind Officer Benjamin Marconi’s car and then walked to the veteran cop’s window, shooting him two times in the head. The identity of the gunman and his motives were not immediately clear, McManus said, noting that the shooting had nothing to do with the traffic stop. Hours later, another similar attack took place in St. Louis, Missouri, where an officer was shot two times in the face as he sat in his car. The unidentified shooter pulled next to the officer with his car and managed to flee the scene after shooting him.

Palestinian teenager Subhi Abu Khalifa An Israeli district court has sentenced a Palestinian teenager to 18 years in prison on the charge of an alleged stabbing attack at a light rail station in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds in October 2015. On Monday noon, the Jerusalem al-Quds District Court passed the ruling against 19-year-old Subhi Abu Khalifa, a resident of the Palestinian Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in East Jerusalem al-Quds, after he was convicted of purportedly injuring two Israeli men in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem al-Quds on October 8, 2015. Abu Khalifa was also ordered to pay 180,000 Israeli shekels (over $46,500) in compensation to the pair. One of the Israeli men, identified as a 25-year-old Yeshiva student, was said to be seriously injured and had to be taken to hospital. The second one was apparently a light rail security guard, who was slightly hurt following an altercation with the Palestinian teenager. Abu Khalifa managed to flee the scene, but was purs

Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems drive during the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow, on May 9, 2016. (Photo by AFP) Moscow says it will deploy its S-400 air missile defense system along with Iskander ballistic missile in Russia's westernmost region of Kaliningrad, near the border with the Baltic countries of Lithuania and Poland and NATO member states. "Russia sees the deployment of its missiles near the western border as a response to Washington setting up a US missile shield in Europe," Russia's RIA news agency quoted Viktor Ozerov, the head of the defense committee in the Russian upper house of parliament, as saying on Monday. The S-400 missile system is Russia's most modern air defense system. It can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen simultaneously over a range of several hundred kilometers. Kaliningrad is sandwiched between Lithuania from the north and east and Poland from the s

Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia has decided to withdraw its signature from the founding statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying the tribunal has failed to live up to the hopes of the international community.In a statement issued on Wednesday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it would pull out from the ICC following a decree by President Vladimir Putin, who decided for Moscow not to be "a participant in the ICC statute."The statement said the main reason for the withdrawal was the ICC's way of treating Russia's brief war with neighboring Georgia in 2008, adding that the international tribunal had ignored Georgia’s aggression against pro-Moscow civilians in the separatist region of South Ossetia."In these conditions one cannot speak of trust in the International Criminal Court," the ministry said, calling the ICC’s work as "one-sided and inefficient." The statement also slammed the ICC’s lack of independence in dealing with