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WESTERN BUREAU: Amid cries for food, water, and the removal of mud-soaked debris, one resident of Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, St James, says his only wish is to clear the sludge from his home and move on from the horrors of Hurricane Melissa. “...

At least 75 per cent of Digicel customers in four of the parishes with significant impacts from Hurricane Melissa will have service restored to them within the next two weeks, according to the local telecoms giant. Senior officials from the company...

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz are shooting to uplift their nation when they tackle Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors today in a football match deemed among their most important World Cup Qualifying contests ever. As the country grapples with the after-...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...