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December 9, 2025
CCRIF to make another multimillion-dollar payment to Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands-based Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) on Thursday announced that it is making a second…
December 9, 2025
Man's body found with head wounds along Salt Pond Road
Police in Portmore, St Catherine, are trying to ascertain the identity of a man whose body was discovered along the Salt Pond roadway in the parish on Wednesday. Reports are that about 11:30 a.m.…
December 9, 2025
by Janet Silvera
Container homes proposed as quick fix for hurricane homelessness
WESTERN BUREAU: Architectural designer and construction project manager Curtis Hylton believes that it is time for Jamaica to embrace a housing model once dismissed as “unconventional” - retrofitted…
December 9, 2025
Jamaica thanks hemispheric partners for post-Hurricane Melissa support
Jamaica has indicated its gratitude for the outpouring of solidarity and assistance from Organization of American States (OAS) member countries since Hurricane Melissa struck the island last week.…
December 9, 2025
Classes resume on Monday for most UTech students
In-person and online classes will resume on Monday for University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, students at its Papine, Slipe Pen Road and Arthur Wint Drive campuses. The university says MBA Level…
December 9, 2025
by Karen Madden
Cops to probe reports of sexual assaults at shelters
The Police High Command is to investigate reports that women have been sexually assaulted in shelters established following the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Responding to questions posed by The…
December 9, 2025
Hello Mi Neighbour | How to engage in feel-good communication
Hope that we are all recovering nicely from Melissa and assisting others to recover just as nicely. Every pound of rice, “every pound of flesh” every pack of crackers, every tin of milk, every piece…
December 9, 2025
by Edmond Campbell
I hear the cry of every baby, says PM
The official number of communities marooned a week after the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa has moved up to 27 even as the Government says it has intensified its efforts to reach people…
December 9, 2025
by Ashley Anguin
Lost opportunity? daCosta Cup suspension drains morale of student-athletes in the west
THE INDEFINITE suspension of the rural high schools daCosta Cup football competition is having a negative impact on some student-athletes in the west. High school sports were suspended by the…