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Higglers and hustlers find their areas to sleep in the safety of the Coronation Market as Hurricane Melissa approaches the island yesterday.
27 Oct, 2025 0

Port Royal caught between tradition and danger

For many residents of flood-prone communities, weathering a hurricane at home is considered foolhardy. However, for residents of Port Royal in Kingston – one of several communities ordered to evacuate…
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27 Oct, 2025 0

Security forces on alert for lawbreakers

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says Jamaica’s security forces have been strategically deployed to prevent any break in law and order amid the passage of Hurricane Melissa. The Category 5 storm is…
A stranded Rupert Roach sits on a bench at the Mandeville Regional Hospital, where he will have to wait out the hurricane before returning home.
27 Oct, 2025 0

Mandeville braces for Melissa’s wrath

As heavy rain and strong winds from Hurricane Melissa battered Mandeville on Monday afternoon, Rupert Roach sat alone on a bench in the Accident and Emergency Department at the Mandeville Regional…
Patricial Stewart feeds the chickens in one of three henhouses at the Golden Egg Farm in St Mary on Monday.
27 Oct, 2025 0

10,000 chickens to ‘ride out’ hurricane on St Mary farm

The rush was on yesterday at the Golden Egg Farm in Georgia, St Mary, as workers raced to harvest eggs and feed 10,000 layer chickens ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa. The memories of…
Rosemarie Bent in a photo with persons using her home in Flagaman, St Elizebeth, as a shelter. Those persons had nowhere to go as they prepared for the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa which is expected to make landfall today.
27 Oct, 2025 0

Mother, son turn Flagaman home into sanctuary for persons fleeing Melissa

WESTERN BUREAU: In the hilly terrain of Flagaman, St Elizabeth, where the wind hums through sprawling melon fields and resilience grows as abundantly as the crops, melon vendor Rosemarie Bent has once…
Sanitation workers collecting garbage in a section of the Second City on Monday ahead of the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
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Chinese supermarkets save the day for MoBay’s ‘Melissa doubters’

WESTERN BUREAU: Except for the Chinese-owned supermarkets and sanitation workers, downtown Montego Bay resembled a ghost town yesterday. Businesses, gas stations, and street vendors had all cleared…
One of several homes in Dumfries, St James, fortified by residents ahead of the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
27 Oct, 2025 0

Residents in rural St James on edge

WESTERN BUREAU: As many Jamaicans anxiously await to see what will unfold when Hurricane Melissa makes landfall, yesterday was a day of mixed feelings for several St James residents, who were…
The gully and bridge above where flooding frequently occurs in the community of Taylor Land, St Andrew, where the ministry has requested residents to evacuate.
26 Oct, 2025 0

‘Hoping for the best’

As dark clouds gathered over Bull Bay, St Andrew, several residents in flood-prone communities refused to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Melissa, insisting they would weather the storm from their homes…
Matthew Samuda (second left), minister of water, environment and climate change; and Daryl Vaz (third right), minister of science, energy, telecommunications and transport; speak with from left Stephen Shaw, communications specialist, at the NWA; Hugh Gran
26 Oct, 2025 0

Vandalism alert

From stealing fuel to the vandalism of cable wires by unscrupulous persons, for trade in the unregulated copper industry, the leading utilities companies agree that weather conditions arising from the…