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December 9, 2025
Editorial | Help MSMEs after Melissa
Each day reveals more of the damage left behind by Hurricane Melissa. The Category 5 hurricane battered Jamaica’s western parishes — St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover, St James, and parts of…
December 9, 2025
Police urge drivers to exercise extreme caution in western Jamaica amid Melissa road conditions
The police are advising the public to exercise extreme caution when traversing roadways in western Jamaica amid damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. Drivers are being asked to avoid all non-essential…
December 9, 2025
December 9, 2025
Hundreds of flights in US cancelled nationwide due to gov't shutdown
The Federal Aviation Administration ’s unprecedented order to scale back flights nationwide because of the record-long government shutdown took effect Friday morning, with some passengers trying to…
December 9, 2025
‘Lead us into brighter days’
“You’ll never leave us or forsake us, so lead us into brighter days.” Those words, simple yet profound, became the heartbeat of recording artiste Christopher Morris, better known as Chris Malachi,…
December 9, 2025
This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead
MEXICO CITY (AP) Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasúchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.…
December 9, 2025
Embrace disaster preparedness like faith
THE EDITOR, Madam: Hurricane Melissa must serve as a clarion call: our island cannot afford to treat disasters as rare, isolated tragedies. That ring of catastrophe must move from shock-and-respond…
December 9, 2025
Celebrating parents
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, our landscape is marked by devastation and our hearts are heavy with loss. It is in these challenging times, however, amid the rubble and the…
December 9, 2025
Walking the path of resilience: The unbroken spirit
In the western parishes, the devastation by Hurricane Melissa has posed a brutal challenge to an equally formidable people. These lands carry deep roots. St Elizabeth, one of Jamaica’s oldest…