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December 9, 2025
Ice melts on engines of aviation executives’ salary suit
Director General of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Nari Williams-Singh, and three senior executives have withdrawn their lawsuit against the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service…
December 9, 2025
by Edmond Campbell
‘Not a good move’
A leading disaster-mitigation specialist and a social-development specialist have both cautioned against placing the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) under the…
December 9, 2025
by Edmond Campbell
I hear the cry of every baby, says PM
The official number of communities marooned a week after the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa has moved up to 27 even as the Government says it has intensified its efforts to reach people…
December 9, 2025
by Luke Douglas
Jamaica Broilers has ‘significant inventory of chicken’
Jamaica Broilers Group Limited (JBG) says it has a significant inventory of chicken products and restarted distribution on October 31, three days after the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Ian Parsard,…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Trapped and terrified
For Aneita Williams, the night Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica will forever haunt her. Trapped inside her flooded home in The Estuary, a housing scheme in Friendship, St James, she came face to…
December 9, 2025
by Janet Silvera
Container homes proposed as quick fix for hurricane homelessness
WESTERN BUREAU: Architectural designer and construction project manager Curtis Hylton believes that it is time for Jamaica to embrace a housing model once dismissed as “unconventional” - retrofitted…
December 9, 2025
by Lester Hinds
Diaspora disaster relief mobilisation moves to targeted areas
Diaspora disaster relief mobilisation has moved into a targeted phase where relief supplies are being sourced to assist critical areas to get the country back up and running. To this end, relief…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
‘We just have to fight through’
Western Bureau: Despite the massive dislocation and spin-off hardship left behind by Hurricane Melissa, residents in western Jamaica are determined to make the best of a bad situation, demonstrating…
December 9, 2025
by Karen Madden
Cops to probe reports of sexual assaults at shelters
The Police High Command is to investigate reports that women have been sexually assaulted in shelters established following the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Responding to questions posed by The…