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Volunteers fix a classroom roof damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Sharla Williams

What about St Ann?

Roofless buildings, fallen trees, no cell signal, no electricity; these are some of the issues St Ann residents are facing following the passage of Hurricane Melissa over Jamaica on October 28, but…
Melarka Williams, CEO and founder of TheHiveCareers.
December 9, 2025

TheHiveCareers mobilises volunteers, skilled workers, rapid-response support

In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, TheHiveCareers recently launched its ‘Rebuild Jamaica - Jobs, Volunteers, and Rapid Project Support’ initiative, a platform designed to…
Professor Michael Taylor
December 9, 2025

Melissa is ‘canary in the coal mine’

Scientists from The University of the West Indies (UWI) have contributed to a new international rapid analysis which confirms that human-induced climate change made Hurricane Melissa more intense and…
A section of Bog Hole under water in Clarendon.
December 9, 2025 by Olivia Brown

Clarendon catastrophe

A catastrophe. That is how Member of Parliament (MP) for Clarendon Northern Wavell Hinds described the trail of destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. The Category 5…
Linvern Wright, the president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools .
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Bolt’s alma mater among hundreds of schools hit hard by Melissa

The full weight of the damage to schools in the parishes ravaged by Hurricane Melissa could be known this week as officials from the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information get a better…
The Edmund Ridge housing scheme in Montego Bay, St James, where most of the roofs were seriously damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Dream homes turned nightmares

A chorus of fury has erupted among homeowners of Edmund Ridge Estates in St James after Hurricane Melissa tore through the three-year-old housing scheme, ripping off roofs and flattening structures,…
Reverend Winston Pecco, chairman of Edwin Allen High School in Clarendon, explaining the extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa at the institution.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

Edwin Allen and Clarendon NW’s fight to recovery

Before Hurricane Melissa made landfall, administrators at Edwin Allen High School decided to send home some 120 students who boarded on campus. Now, in the aftermath of the Category Five storm – which…
United Nations Development Resident Representative to Jamaica, Dr Kishan Khoday surveys the damage done in Black River, St Elizabeth in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Jovan Johnson

Turn crisis into opportunity

The World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are urging Jamaica to turn the devastation from Hurricane Melissa into an opportunity to “reimagine” its reconstruction and…
President of the Western Jamaica Media Association, Janet Silvera (centre) in conversation with her vice president, Garwin Davis (right) and veteran journalist Adrian Frater while at work at the newly installed media centre at S Hotel Montego Bay.
December 9, 2025

MoBay hotel opens media base in MoBay to support journalists after Hurricane Melissa

The S Hotel in Montego Bay has converted its entertainment lounge into a media base to assist journalists in western Jamaica struggling with communication and connectivity issues following the passage…