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Biomedical engineer Jordan Green sits for a photo in his office at Johns Hopkins University in May 2025, in Baltimore, USA.
December 9, 2025

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The cruise ship ‘MS Zuiderdam’ docked at the Port of Ocho Rios in St Ann on November 11.
December 9, 2025

Bartlett: 64,000 cruise passengers expected as tourism rebounds

Jamaica’s tourism industry is rebounding after Hurricane Melissa, with cruise ships returning, hotels reopening and officials projecting stronger visitor numbers by year end. Tourism Minister Edmund…
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December 9, 2025

Davie church, mayor donate for hurricane relief to Jamaica

DAVIE, FL: The Davie Community Worship Centre (DCWC), under the leadership of Bishop Dr Fedlyn Beason, has donated US$6,000 to assist Jamaican churches devastated by Hurricane Melissa. The funds will…
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | Kingston on the mission field

VERY SPECIAL thanks to all who continue to facilitate hurricane-relief outreach. This is such a necessary ministry of compassion and care. Attending to the physical and psychosocial needs of survivors…
Devon Carridice, a farmer from Toll Gate in Clarendon, shows Ann-Marie Williams-Swaby, client relations manager at JN Bank Small Business Loans, the damage done to his farm by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Growth & Jobs | ‘I’m not giving up’

DEVON CARRIDICE, a farmer of Toll Gate in Clarendon, is now working to rebuild his livelihood after Hurricane Melissa wiped out most of his crops and severely disrupted his operations. He is in the…
The victorious JLP candidate, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

BALLOT RIFT

The Supreme Court is expected to rule next month on the case filed by Paul Buchanan against the Constituted Authority, which rejected his bid to have the St Andrew West Central general election…
A sudent of Mavis Bank High School in St Andrew journeys home on his motorbike after school last week.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

BIKES TO THE RESCUE

In the best of times, the drive to Halls Delight in the hills of rural St Andrew is not for the faint of heart. Now, three weeks after Hurricane Melissa dumped several inches of rain on the…
Pearnel Charles Jr, minister of labour and social security.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

Charles details shift to needs-based hurricane relief

As of yesterday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, working with the Jamaica Defence Force and other partners, had made 138 air and ground drops with relief for communities that remain…
A classroom that has lost its roof at Belmont Academy in Westmoreland.
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Some W’land schools to reopen with shelter dwellers

Unless shelter occupants relocate within the next four days, upper-school students returning on Monday to three Westmoreland high schools will return with hurricane evacuees on the compounds. At least…