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Tommie-Ann Stone and her 1-year-old son Bellamy Whyte.
December 9, 2025

Clarendon woman desperate to find family in hurricane-ravaged St Elizabeth

A Clarendon woman is making a desperate plea for help in re-establishing contact with her daughter-in-law and one-year-old grandson of Mocho, St Elizabeth, who she has been unable to reach since…
Planes are seen in front of an air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, N.J., Thursday, November 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
December 9, 2025

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago among 40 major US airports targeted for flight cuts due to gov’t shutdown

America’s busiest airports, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, were set to face hundreds of flight cuts starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness speaking at a press briefing at Jamaica House.
December 9, 2025

Gov’t to help small community shops to reopen, including loaning them generators

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the Government is working on a plan to get the local economy in hurricane-affected areas back up and running, arguing that having community shops operational is…
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December 9, 2025

90,000 families in Western Jamaica impacted by Hurricane Melissa

Approximately 90,000 families in western Jamaica were directly affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. This is according to the initial damage assessment by Office of Disaster…
Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dr Dana Morris Dixon.
December 9, 2025

Coordination of relief bolstered by support from UNOPS

The Government’s coordination of relief in response to Hurricane Melissa will be bolstered by support from the United Nations Office for Project Service (UNOPS). The disclosure was made by Minister…
The NWA advises motorists to exercise caution while using the roadway during the period of the works and observe the instructions of flag persons and posted signs.
December 9, 2025

Liguanea Avenue in St Andrew to be closed for seven days

The National Works Agency (NWA) has informed that Liguanea Avenue in St Andrew will be closed for a period of seven days commencing at 8 a.m. on Saturday. It says the closure will affect the section…
The university says it has also implemented a number of support and relief measures.
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

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.…
A house in Elderslie, St Elizabeth badly damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
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…