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December 9, 2025
Jamaica to stage fundraising concerts to support Hurricane Melissa relief
Minister of Culture and Entertainment Olivia Grange says her Ministry will be leading a series of five fundraising concerts on the island and across the world to support Jamaica in the aftermath of…
December 9, 2025
Distinguished scholar Dr Christopher Charles has died, PNP says Jamaica has lost a brilliant mind
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) joins the academic community and the wider Jamaica in mourning the passing of Professor Dr Christopher A. D. Charles, saying Jamaica has lost a brilliant…
December 9, 2025
by Gregory Bryce
JaVA organising relief for Vikings Volleyball Club
Audley Weir, general secretary of the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA), says they are organising relief efforts for Vikings Volleyball Club in Westmoreland, which has been devastated in the…
December 9, 2025
First field hospital to go to hurricane-damaged Black River Hospital
The Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth, which was hit hard by Hurricane Melissa, is to be the first site of a field hospital that will be established to help with health cases in the parish. “It…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Gratitude in the rubble
Despite the destruction, despair, and chaos left behind in Trelawny by Hurricane Melissa, residents who have suffered immense loss – including some now homeless – are expressing deep gratitude for…
December 9, 2025
by Sashana Small
Trelawny yam farmers face ruin after Melissa
A distraught Cynthia Watt stood with arms outstretched, mourning the ruins of her once-thriving yam farms surrounding her home in Lorrimers, Trelawny. The 73-year-old farmer’s property was among many…
December 9, 2025
by Kimone Francis
‘Bodies all over the place’
In the wake of Hurricane Melissa’s devastation, the air in Westmoreland hung heavy with dust and debris as mortician Dywite Spence began a grim journey – retrieving the bodies of those the storm had…
December 9, 2025
by Corey Robinson
Survivors navigate hellish aftermath in Black River
Devastation, desperation, and the acrid stench of death and despair – that was Black River, the capital of St Elizabeth, two days after Hurricane Melissa’s rampage. The scene was apocalyptic.…
December 9, 2025
WIP Energy mobilises fuel supply for Melissa relief, to keep prices at pre-hurricane levels
WIP Energy, a subsidiary of West Indies Petroleum Limited (WIP), which operates the Thrifty gas stations, says it is mobilising resources to ensure critical fuel supply across Jamaica following…