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Opposition People's National Party Spokesman on Energy Phillip Paulwell.
December 9, 2025

PNP presses JPS to publish storm billing data

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is demanding that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) publish key billing data to ensure transparency for customers affected by Tropical Storm…
 The cone from the United States' National Hurricane Center contains the probable path of the centre of Tropical Storm Melissa at 7 a.m. on October 25, 2025. It  does not show
the size of the storm. Hazardous conditions can occur outside of the cone.
December 9, 2025

Storm Melissa to 'rapidly intensify' today, Jamaica to start feeling effects in hours - Met Office

Rapid intensification of Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to begin today, with the system forecast to become a hurricane within hours and strengthen into a major hurricane by Sunday, according to…
One of the entrances to Munro College in Malvern, St Elizabeth.
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Scarred by Beryl, strengthened by its lessons

WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa, Munro College – one of the nation’s oldest boarding institutions – says it is far better prepared this time, drawing on hard-earned lessons…
This combination photo shows former prime ministers of Jamaica P.J. Patterson (left) and Bruce Golding.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Former leaders right

Their intervention is unlikely to alter Donald Trump’s increasingly militaristic posture in the area. However, last week’s insistence by 10 former CARICOM leaders that the Caribbean be respected as a…
Christopher Burgess
December 9, 2025

Christopher Burgess | Why Melissa matters: Balancing debt with development

People in Jamaica have been preparing and bracing for Hurricane Melissa’s impact since last Monday. Trust stare us in the face; underdevelopment remains our national vulnerability.
A section of a yard in Parottee, St Elizabeth, belonging to residents who have been still struggling to rebuild after last year’s onslaught from Hurricane Beryl.
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Storm-weary St Bess faces Melissa still reeling from Beryl

WESTERN BUREAU: More than a year after Hurricane Beryl ravaged Jamaica’s southern corridor, the residents of St Elizabeth remain locked in a prolonged struggle for recovery. Now, with Tropical Storm…
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December 9, 2025

Jamaica upgraded from hurricane watch to hurricane warning

The Met office has moved Jamaica from a hurricane watch to a hurricane warning, as Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to rapidly strengthen while moving closer to the island. A hurricane warning…
Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Brigadier, O'Neil Bogle, addressing a sspecial press briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister on Friday, October 24.
December 9, 2025

All JDF personnel in Haiti accounted for amid TS Melissa

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is reporting that all personnel who are deployed in Haiti are accounted for and in high spirits. Tropical Storm Melissa has brought intense rain to Haiti, causing…
Gayle was found dead at her Caymanas Estate home in St Catherine in December 2024.
December 9, 2025

Preacher and his wife in Bahamas accused of sexually molesting their child

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC- A High Court judge in the Bahamas has set November 9 next year as the date for the start of the trial of a preacher and his wife who are accused of sexually molesting their child…