News January 28 2026 by Janet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

6.7M MEALS

Updated January 28 2026 4 min read

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Nathalee Jemaison and her staff at Kajay’s Seafood Restaurant in White House, Westmoreland, were among the WCK partners providing food.
Chef Donald Pallas adds rich jerk sauce over fresh chicken in the packing section of the Negril Field Kitchen, locking in the smoky spice that defines this iconic dish. “The sauce rounds it all out,” he says. “That’s what makes it finger-licking good.”
The Home Depot team cooking up a storm at the World Central Kitchen headquarters at the Montego Bay Convention Centre.

WESTERN BUREAU: In the days after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, the country fractured. Roads disappeared, communities were cut off, and families sheltered in damaged buildings, waiting for water, power, or word that help was coming. In some areas, hunger arrived before information. Over the next three months, World Central Kitchen (WCK) would answer that hunger 6.7 million times.