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14 Nov, 2025
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IOM partners with Airbnb to shelter essential workers post-Melissa
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has announced a partnership with Airbnb.org to provide free emergency stays for families and frontline responders displaced by Hurricane Melissa. …
14 Nov, 2025
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Manchester residents warned to stay out of rising floodwaters
The Manchester Health Department is advising residents of the parish to avoid direct contact with the rising floodwaters in Content, Williamsfield in Manchester. It notes that floodwaters pose a…
14 Nov, 2025
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London judge finds global mining company BHP Group liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster
A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a major river,…
14 Nov, 2025
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Entertainer Lila Ike gets February 12 date for disorderly conduct trial
The trial of entertainer Alecia 'Lila Ike' Gray and co-accused Shennelle Moore for disorderly conduct has been set for February 12, 2026 in the St Catherine Parish Court. When the matter…
14 Nov, 2025
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Oran Hall | Increasing life expectancy a challenge for personal financial planning
As more people live longer, the question arises about how to fund and maintain the lifestyle people were used to in their pre-retirement years for their full retirement years. At the centre of this is…
14 Nov, 2025
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Amb Anderson lauds Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team
WASHINGTON DC: Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, Major General (Ret’d) Antony Anderson, has commended the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team (Virginia Task Force 1) for its…
14 Nov, 2025
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‘Like a fish out of water’
On the St Elizabeth side of the border with Westmoreland, there once was an idyllic little fishing village. The village remains but, since Hurricane Melissa tore through, it is almost unsightly, and…
14 Nov, 2025
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Mega-church pastor ‘humbled’ to stage One Love Jamaica Rebuild concert
Bishop of The Faith Center Ministries in Sunrise, Florida, Henry B. Fernandez, pastors what is described in his official bio as “a thriving, multiracial congregation of over 10,000 members”.…
14 Nov, 2025
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Cedric Stephens | Accessible insurance still an unmet goal
Hurricane Melissa provided a glut of things for me to write about. In today’s article, I will try to link discrete topics to the monster hurricane where the economic impacts may turn out to be not…