Lead Stories
07 Nov, 2025
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RIU, World Central Kitchen serve thousands of hot meals to Melissa survivors
WESTERN BUREAU: When Category 5 Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica on October 28, thousands of families were left without electricity, gas, or clean water. In the storm’s aftermath, RIU Resorts…
06 Nov, 2025
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‘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…
06 Nov, 2025
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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…
06 Nov, 2025
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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,…
06 Nov, 2025
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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…
06 Nov, 2025
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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…
06 Nov, 2025
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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…
06 Nov, 2025
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‘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…
06 Nov, 2025
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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…