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30 Oct, 2025
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Flash flood watch discontinued
The Met office has discontinued the flash flood watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas for all parishes. The agency says the significant feature is a Trough across Jamaica, which was induced by…
30 Oct, 2025
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Increased criminality is a result of missing fathers
THE EDITOR, Madam: The Caribbean has been repeatedly rocked by incidents of mass killing without progress by society in dealing with the root causes. No government reviews, budget allocations or…
30 Oct, 2025
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Kristen Gyles | We survived the unsurvivable
One foreign news reporter described the hurricane as being ‘unsurvivable’. But here we are, almost three million strong, having survived one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record. No, not…
30 Oct, 2025
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Peter Espeut | Hoping for a good breeze-blow
I monitored Melissa on-line as she passed well to the south of Kingston on Sunday night, and rejoiced that the capital was spared the worst. And then she didn’t turn north when expected, and I hoped…
30 Oct, 2025
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Standing with Jamaica in this hour of crisis
THE EDITOR, Madam: Many years ago I spent ten days with my young daughters in Negril, a town in the Hanover and Westmoreland Parishes at the western extremity of Jamaica. The people were welcoming…
30 Oct, 2025
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Letter of the Day | Breadfruit and hope after the storm
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, our beloved Jamaica mourns. The wind’s roar has subsided, but in its silence, the cries of families who have lost their homes, livelihoods,…
29 Oct, 2025
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Melissa revisits trauma on Halse Hall family
Haunted by memories of their matriarch who they lost during flood rains in 2021, a family in Bottom Halse Hall, Clarendon was forced to flee their home as flood waters from a nearby pond, swollen by…
29 Oct, 2025
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Kingston vendor offers free breadfruit to hurricane clean-up volunteers
The morning after the catastrophic passage of Hurricane Melissa, 48-year-old vendor Eyan Williams stood at the front of Kidd Lane in Kingston, roasting 18 breadfruits over a blazing wood fire. Using a…
29 Oct, 2025
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Trelawny 'like a war zone'
Numerous roofless buildings, flooded streets, downed light posts and electrical wires, along with countless sheets of zinc strewn almost everywhere, stood as tell-tale signs of the trail of…