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Downed concrete poles in Lacovia, St Elizabeth.
December 9, 2025

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…
Letters
December 9, 2025

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…
Residents walk through Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

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…
JLP office on Belmont Road, Kingston.
December 9, 2025

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…
Seven Mile Beach in Negril
December 9, 2025

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…
People walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa passed.
December 9, 2025

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,…
Denise 'Macka' Sinclair, of Bottom Halse Hall in Clarendon, says Hurricane Melissa caused the sinkhole behind her house to rise to window level so she had to run out due of fear.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

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…
Eyan Williams, resident of Kidd Lane in Kingston, roasts breadfruit for himself and fellow residents after produce fall from trees during onslaught of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Tiffany Pryce

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…
Residents of Cornwall Street, Compound in Trelawny look at the damage done to their homes after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which swept through the island on October 28.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

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…