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Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie (second left) tours a section of the Savanna-La-Mar Market in Westmoreland last Wednesday to assess the damage caused by the recent passage of Hurricane Melissa. Joining him are (from
December 9, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Market meltdown

Savanna-la-Mar’s storm-ravaged market has once again become the centre of public frustration and political attention as residents and vendors plead for urgent repairs and clarity on its future. The…
Reconstruction work under way at Anthony Davis’ home at Edmund Ridge Estates in Montego Bay, St James.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Edmund Ridge fury

Less than a year after moving into his new two-bedroom home at Edmund Ridge Estates in St James, homeowner Anthony Davis has begun extensive interior renovations. The house was among several severely…
Meris Palmer, the administrator at the Frazerville Methodist Church in Duanvale, Trelawny.
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

‘It was God’s wrath’

WESTERN BUREAU:
Hundreds of people have turned to bathing, washing and fetching water for domestic use from this Banana Spring roadside catchment in Cornwall Courts in Montego Bay, St James, since the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Springs to the rescue as St James water crisis deepens

A worsening water crisis in St James has forced residents across the parish to depend on roadside springs and makeshift catchments for basic household needs, even as health officials warn that the…
Businessman Carl Palmer reflects on his losses.
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Two Palmers, two painful Melissa experiences

Western Bureau: While scores of residents were converging on the Duanvale Community Centre, in Trelawny, on Friday to collect care packages and other supplies courtesy of Pepsi, which had partnered…
Tacine Lawson carefully braids a young girl’s hair with the belief that looking good makes you feel good, despite the circumstances after Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Duty’s call

Delta Airlines employees are lending a helping hand to communities affected by the Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, bringing care packages, essentials, and even personal services, to residents in need.…
Desmond McKenzie (second left), minister of local government and community development, addresses a concerned resident at the Petersfield High School shelter yesterday, following a break-in at the facility.
December 9, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

‘No compromise’

A break-in at the Petersfield High School shelter has escalated tensions between residents and authorities, prompting Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie to demand round-the-clock police…
A section of the crowd at yesterday funeral for Alsion Roach-Wilson, Jamaica’s late consul general for New York, held at the Community Baptist Church of Englewood, New Jersey in the United States.
December 9, 2025 by Lester Hinds

‘She gave more than she took’

An overflowing Community Baptist Church of Englewood, New Jersey, heard glowing tributes paid to Jamaica’s late Consul General to New York, Alsion Roach-Wilson, who died on November 8 after battling…
George Williams is flanked by his brother Aldwin Jones and niece Pamella Green in this June 2021 photo.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Gov’t challenges $120m award to George Williams, calls it excessive

The Government is arguing that the $120 million in damages that was awarded to George Williams – the mentally disabled Rastafarian man who spent 50 years in prison awaiting trial – was “punitive in…