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December 9, 2025
‘Lead us into brighter days’
“You’ll never leave us or forsake us, so lead us into brighter days.” Those words, simple yet profound, became the heartbeat of recording artiste Christopher Morris, better known as Chris Malachi,…
December 9, 2025
This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead
MEXICO CITY (AP) Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasúchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.…
December 9, 2025
Embrace disaster preparedness like faith
THE EDITOR, Madam: Hurricane Melissa must serve as a clarion call: our island cannot afford to treat disasters as rare, isolated tragedies. That ring of catastrophe must move from shock-and-respond…
December 9, 2025
Celebrating parents
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, our landscape is marked by devastation and our hearts are heavy with loss. It is in these challenging times, however, amid the rubble and the…
December 9, 2025
Walking the path of resilience: The unbroken spirit
In the western parishes, the devastation by Hurricane Melissa has posed a brutal challenge to an equally formidable people. These lands carry deep roots. St Elizabeth, one of Jamaica’s oldest…
December 9, 2025
Jalil Dabdoub | Trapped in tribalism: A nation held hostage — even in the face of disaster
Recently, I debated someone who took issue with my view that Jamaicans still see politics almost exclusively through orange and green lenses. While the overt violence of old has faded, political…
December 9, 2025
SVL delivers for Q3 but wary of Melissa effects
Supreme Ventures Limited, SVL, posted strong third-quarter results, but the gaming and lottery company remains cautious about the lingering effects of Hurricane Melissa, which disrupted operations in…
December 9, 2025
Agricultural losses from Melissa reach $20 billion and counting
Preliminary estimates of the losses across the agriculture and fisheries sector following Hurricane Melissa have totalled over $20 billion so far. Technocrats within the Ministry of Agriculture,…
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…