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Dr Lisa Indar, executive director of CARPHA.
December 9, 2025

CARPHA deploying 15 docs to Melissa-battered west

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is deploying a team of 15 doctors to western Jamaica as the country continues its recovery from the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa. The team is…
Merris Green from Westgreen/Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, St James, explains how floodwaters from Hurricane Melissa swept through her house destroying all her furnishings.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

STRATEGIC SHIFT REQUIRED

WESTERN BUREAU: As three rivers and storm surge buried Catherine Hall and Westgreen under mud and debris, tempers flared this week as residents demanded urgent national intervention, saying repeated…
Jamaican football supporters celebrate the fourth goal scored by Dujuan ‘Whisper’ Richards during the Concacaf World Cup Qualifying football match at the National Stadium in Kingston on Tuesday. The Reggae Boyz thrashed Bermuda 4-0.
December 9, 2025 by Audley Boyd

For glory, for country

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz are shooting to uplift their nation when they tackle Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors today in a football match deemed among their most important World Cup Qualifying contests…
Bjorn Reynolds, chief technical and innovation officer at Digicel.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Digicel pushes for full restoration by year end

At least 75 per cent of Digicel customers in four of the parishes with significant impacts from Hurricane Melissa will have service restored to them within the next two weeks, according to the local…
Donna-Lee Donaldson, who was last seen on July 11, 2022.
December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Defence questions reliability of DNA evidence

The defence in the murder trial of Constable Noel Maitland yesterday raised the possibility that the DNA of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson could have been transferred through…
Wayne Shaw, who has been farming for four decades, is happy that he signed up for the insurance scheme.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Relief for farmers as insurance payouts begin

After Hurricane Melissa gutted his 10-acre farm in Ebony Park, Clarendon, destroying several acres of crops, Wayne Shaw is now finding some relief as one of more than 130 farmers to receive a payout…
Stacy-Ann Barnes, project coordinator at the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), and Kimberly Seymour-Brown, PADF project coordinator for community resilience and transformation.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

JCF boosts forensic expertise with advanced crime scene investigation training

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has strengthened its investigative capacity through specialised training designed to enhance the skills of forensic crime scene investigators (FCSIs) in modern…
AT TOP: Pastor Alexander Wurm and his 22-year-old daughter Serena.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

‘He was a hero!’

WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean relief community is hailing the Cayman Islands-based missionary Alexander Wurm as a true hero, a man whose final flight embodied selfless love and service to Jamaica.
Floyd Green, minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining, addresses the Parliament on the state of the agriculture sector on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

$30b bite

Damage to Jamaica’s agriculture and fisheries sector from Hurricane Melissa is estimated at nearly $30 billion. The Category Five storm, whose local death toll officials placed at 45 on Tuesday, tore…