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Smoke rises after a fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories.
29 Nov, 2025 0

Editorial | Learn from Hong Kong fire

This newspaper is grateful that there hasn’t been a serious fire at any of Jamaica’s growing number of high-rise buildings, so as to test the integrity of their construction, or the capacity of the…
Specialist personnel from the Royal Navy’s HMS Trent assisting hospital workers clearing the debris at Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny.
29 Nov, 2025 0

Chris Elmore | The UK stands with Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa

My visit to Jamaica this week comes just over a month after Hurricane Melissa – the strongest storm ever recorded here – swept across the island, leaving devastation in its wake. I will be visiting…
In this undated photo provided by her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza celebrates her high school graduation in Texas.
28 Nov, 2025 0

College freshman in US is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order

Concord, N.H. (AP) — A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her…
Wayne Wheatley, displaced by Storm Gustav, stands proudly outside his home in West Albion, St Thomas.
28 Nov, 2025 0

Gustav survivors adjust to life in West Albion

In West Albion – where several Hope River survivors were resettled after Hurricane Gustav – residents say they are no longer sitting ducks on the riverbank, but the relocation has brought its own set…
In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers on a rubber boat evacuate residents from their flooded home in North Sumatra province, Indonesia Tuesday, November 25, 2025. (BASARNAS via AP)
28 Nov, 2025 0

Death toll from floods and landslides in Indonesia rises to 164

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 164 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said, as rescue workers found their…
28 Nov, 2025 0

Garvey Maceo clip Maggotty in thriller

Garvey Maceo High picked up maximum points in their Zone Three round of 16 daCosta Cup match yesterday after defeating Maggotty High 3-2 at the Wembley Centre of Excellence to move to four points and…
Jamaica College’s Dontae Logan scores from the penalty spot during yesterday’s Manning Cup match against St Jago High at Ashenheim Stadium. Jamaica College won 2-1.
28 Nov, 2025 0

JC return in winning form

Jamaica College (JC) resumed ISSA/WATA Manning Cup action in winning form as they downed St Jago High 2-1 yesterday at the Ashenheim Stadium. Dontae Logan opened the scoring in time added of the first…
Chrysta-Jaye Walker (left), category manager, printing, consumables and HP systems at Intcomex Jamaica, leads a demonstration of available gift items for Amit Mahbubani, General Manager of ROK Hotel Kingston at Intcomex Jamaica Hurricane Melissa Relief Lau
28 Nov, 2025 0

Intcomex adopts W’land community after Hurricane Melissa

Intcomex Jamaica has adopted Cave district, Westmoreland, pledging six months of support for one of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa. The announcement was made on Thursday at the…
Mark Jackson, a resident of Tavern, St Andrew, highlights the dangerous erosion caused by the swollen Hope River.
28 Nov, 2025 0

Hope River fears

Residents of Kintyre and Tavern in St Andrew say they are “running out of ground” after Hurricane Melissa’s fierce rains chewed deeper into the Hope River’s banks, exposing foundations, toppling…