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07 Nov, 2025
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Cedric Stephens | Preparing for future catastrophes
Today’s article is a mixture of a piece I began writing when Melissa, then a tropical storm, first threatened Jamaica. The other parts are post-Hurricane Melissa news. Like many people, I did not know…
07 Nov, 2025
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‘We’re very resilient people’
As Hurricane Melissa intensified to a Category 5 storm pointing right at Jamaica, Shaggy knew he had to help. He just wasn’t sure how. So he asked ChatGPT. “I don’t know anything about relief and how…
07 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Help MSMEs after Melissa
Each day reveals more of the damage left behind by Hurricane Melissa. The Category 5 hurricane battered Jamaica’s western parishes — St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover, St James, and parts of…
07 Nov, 2025
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Police urge drivers to exercise extreme caution in western Jamaica amid Melissa road conditions
The police are advising the public to exercise extreme caution when traversing roadways in western Jamaica amid damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. Drivers are being asked to avoid all non-essential…
07 Nov, 2025
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07 Nov, 2025
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Hundreds of flights in US cancelled nationwide due to gov't shutdown
The Federal Aviation Administration ’s unprecedented order to scale back flights nationwide because of the record-long government shutdown took effect Friday morning, with some passengers trying to…
07 Nov, 2025
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‘Lead us into brighter days’
“You’ll never leave us or forsake us, so lead us into brighter days.” Those words, simple yet profound, became the heartbeat of recording artiste Christopher Morris, better known as Chris Malachi,…
07 Nov, 2025
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This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead
MEXICO CITY (AP) Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasúchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.…
07 Nov, 2025
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Embrace disaster preparedness like faith
THE EDITOR, Madam: Hurricane Melissa must serve as a clarion call: our island cannot afford to treat disasters as rare, isolated tragedies. That ring of catastrophe must move from shock-and-respond…