After Hurricane Melissa gutted his 10-acre farm in Ebony Park, Clarendon, destroying several acres of crops, Wayne Shaw is now finding some relief as one of more than 130 farmers to receive a payout from the GraceKennedy (GK) Weather Protect...
WESTERN BUREAU: While most hospitality workers in hurricane-battered western Jamaica come from communities still without electricity, water, and other essentials, Delano Seiveright remains hopeful that the upcoming winter tourist season can be...
Damage to Jamaica’s agriculture and fisheries sector from Hurricane Melissa is estimated at nearly $30 billion. The Category Five storm, whose local death toll officials placed at 45 on Tuesday, tore through parishes that produce the island’s...
Integrity Commission Director of Corruption Prosecution Roneiph Lawrence has recommended charges against two sitting and two former councillors for repeatedly failing to file their statutory declarations with the Integrity Commission, in some cases...
Blood traces found on several items seized from the New Kingston apartment of police constable Noel Maitland have been confirmed to match the DNA profile of his missing girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson. A government forensic analyst testified on...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean relief community is hailing the Cayman Islands-based missionary Alexander Wurm as a true hero, a man whose final flight embodied selfless love and service to Jamaica. The pastor and his 22-year-old daughter, Serena,...
Declaring that Hurricane Melissa has “exposed the need to strengthen national and municipal resilience”, Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby says a good place to start is updating Jamaica’s Small Building Code to promote more sustainable construction....
Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:25 AM
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the widespread destruction left behind in Hanover, one remarkable symbol of resilience remains: the monument to Jamaica’s first prime minister and National Hero, Sir Alexander Bustamante. Against all odds, the historic site in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas became an instant hero to scores of residents in Haughton Court and surrounding communities in western Hanover on Monday when he arrived with a truckload of desperately needed relief supplies – the first...
FLORIDA (AP): A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after takeoff and...
The Auditor General’s Department is conducting a real-time audit to assess the transparency and accountability of resources received and utilised under the Hurricane Melissa relief initiative. The Pamela Monroe-Ellis-led department is seeking to...
WESTERN BUREAU: There aren’t enough vendors to serve the crowds of foodies who still converge nightly on the Fort Street jerk chicken strip, as Montego Bay slowly claws its way back to normality after Hurricane Melissa’s destruction. Fort Street...
WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth’s popular Bend-Down Market is on course to reopen on Wednesday, just under two weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through the historic town, leaving widespread destruction. Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager indicated on the...
Jamaica is set to receive €2 million in aid from the European Union (EU) as the country continues its recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which slammed into the western section of the island nearly two weeks ago. Hadja Lahbib, EU commissioner for...
The full weight of the damage to schools in the parishes ravaged by Hurricane Melissa could be known this week as officials from the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information get a better assessment of the impact on plants in the storm’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: The devastation in Falmouth, Trelawny, rivals that of Black River, St Elizabeth, according to Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie, who described the post-hurricane destruction there as “...
Western Bureau: As the after effects of Hurricane Melissa continues to take a heavy toll on the lives of residents in western Jamaica, nurses at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, are complaining of hellish conditions on...
Western Bureau: The faith and resolve of members of the Porto Bello Pentecostal Worship Centre at Cornwall Court in Montego Bay, St James was on full display yesterday as they gathered at the site where Hurricane Melissa obliterated their church to...
Western Bureau: The fear that there would be a shortage of farm produce at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, over last weekend amid the destruction Hurricane Melissa wreaked in the premier farming belt – St Elizabeth, Trelawny and...
The Jamaican diaspora has reacted with shock and disbelief at news that Jamaica’s Consul General to New York Alsion Roach-Wilson has died following her battle with breast cancer. Roach-Wilson died at home in New Jersey in the early hours of...
The World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are urging Jamaica to turn the devastation from Hurricane Melissa into an opportunity to “reimagine” its reconstruction and resilience systems. Their call comes as the country...
As he trudged through thick mud covering the roadway outside his home in Westgreen, Montego Bay, 77-year-old John Lee paused to scratch his face. The retired firefighter, his boots caked with muck, expressed deep concern about the worsening health...
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 face with death as water mixed with sewage...
A chorus of fury has erupted among homeowners of Edmund Ridge Estates in St James after Hurricane Melissa tore through the three-year-old housing scheme, ripping off roofs and flattening structures, leaving several families in distress. After...
Hurricane Melissa has left more than 4.8 million tons of debris strewn across Jamaica, blocking roads and cutting off access to schools, hospitals, farms and markets, according to satellite-based analysis from the United Nations Development...
