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December 9, 2025

Housing grant, other benefits for those impacted by Melissa

The National Housing Trust (NHT) will provide a special grant of up to $500,000 to contributors to repair damage to their homes or those of immediate family members. Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness,…
Dr Alison Thompson (centre) flanked by two Operation Blessing volunteers.
December 9, 2025

Third Wave Volunteers bring urgent relief to Jamaica’s hardest-hit communities

Western Bureau: When Dr Alison Thompson and her team arrived in western Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, what they found stunned even a veteran of more than two decades travelling to disaster zones. …
Edmond Bartlett, minister of tourism. FILE
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Closed hotels set timelines for reopening after hurricane

Western Bureau: The powerful Category 5 Hurricane Melissa battered Hanover, Westmoreland, Trelawny, St Elizabeth, and sections of St James, forcing temporary hotel closures and displacing hundreds of…
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December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Tertiary schools back in session after Melissa

Despite a threat from disgruntled students at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, to stage a sit in, the St Andrew-located institution resumed classes on Monday. Like other tertiary…
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson speaking with The Gleaner at his St Andrew home on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Patterson urges Jamaica, Jamaicans to rebuild with resilience for the future

Amid scenes and images of the widespread devastation to the island’s southwestern coastal parishes following the passage of the record-breaking Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, former Prime Minister PJ…
Former Vice President Dick Cheney addresses a campaign rally for Gus Bilirakis, a Republican who is running for the Tampa Bay area congressional seat his father is vacating in Tampa, Florida July 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)
December 9, 2025

Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarising vice presidents in US history, dies at 84

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in United States history and a leading advocate for the invasion of…
Minister of Local Government and Community Development,  Desmond McKenzie (second left), with Mayor of Black River Richard Solomon (left), along with other key stakeholders. survey the extensive damage to the Black River Market in St.Elizabeth, following t
December 9, 2025

Gov’t to review and restructure Jamaica’s disaster preparedness framework

The Government will undertake a comprehensive review and restructuring of Jamaica’s disaster preparedness and response framework, in light of the widespread destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa on…
Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Dr Lisa Indar (second left) standing with high-level delegates from the agency, the Caribbean Development Bank and the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology follow
December 9, 2025

CARPHA providing Hurricane Melissa response to Jamaica

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says it has mobilised an immediate response to support Jamaica following the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa. The hurricane brought catastrophic…
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December 9, 2025

TAJ extends deadline for GCT filings and payments

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is advising taxpayers that the due date for filing returns for consumption taxes, such as General Consumption Tax (GCT), Special Consumption Tax (SCT), Telephone Call…