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Abigail Whittaker-Clarke (second left) and Elecia Whittingham-Gayle (third left) collect a donation from the Burmese community, on behalf of the Western Regional Health Authority staff members.
December 9, 2025

Burmese community donates care packages to Western Regional Health Authority

The Burmese community in Jamaica has donated care packages to the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) for distribution to staff members in support of recovery efforts, following the passage of…
Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce Senator Aubyn Hill (right) engages FosRich Group CEO Cecil Foster during a Jamaica Investment and Housing forum at the Resort World hotel in Queens, New York, while Jamaica’s Consul General to New York Alsion
December 9, 2025 by Lester Hinds

‘A profound loss’

The Jamaican diaspora has reacted with shock and disbelief at news that Jamaica’s Consul General to New York Alsion Roach-Wilson has died following her battle with breast cancer. Roach-Wilson died at…
Volunteers fix a classroom roof damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Sharla Williams

What about St Ann?

Roofless buildings, fallen trees, no cell signal, no electricity; these are some of the issues St Ann residents are facing following the passage of Hurricane Melissa over Jamaica on October 28, but…
Melarka Williams, CEO and founder of TheHiveCareers.
December 9, 2025

TheHiveCareers mobilises volunteers, skilled workers, rapid-response support

In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, TheHiveCareers recently launched its ‘Rebuild Jamaica - Jobs, Volunteers, and Rapid Project Support’ initiative, a platform designed to…
Professor Michael Taylor
December 9, 2025

Melissa is ‘canary in the coal mine’

Scientists from The University of the West Indies (UWI) have contributed to a new international rapid analysis which confirms that human-induced climate change made Hurricane Melissa more intense and…
A section of Bog Hole under water in Clarendon.
December 9, 2025 by Olivia Brown

Clarendon catastrophe

A catastrophe. That is how Member of Parliament (MP) for Clarendon Northern Wavell Hinds described the trail of destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. The Category 5…
Linvern Wright, the president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools .
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Bolt’s alma mater among hundreds of schools hit hard by Melissa

The full weight of the damage to schools in the parishes ravaged by Hurricane Melissa could be known this week as officials from the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information get a better…
The Edmund Ridge housing scheme in Montego Bay, St James, where most of the roofs were seriously damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Dream homes turned nightmares

A chorus of fury has erupted among homeowners of Edmund Ridge Estates in St James after Hurricane Melissa tore through the three-year-old housing scheme, ripping off roofs and flattening structures,…
Reverend Winston Pecco, chairman of Edwin Allen High School in Clarendon, explaining the extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa at the institution.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

Edwin Allen and Clarendon NW’s fight to recovery

Before Hurricane Melissa made landfall, administrators at Edwin Allen High School decided to send home some 120 students who boarded on campus. Now, in the aftermath of the Category Five storm – which…