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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,…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…