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Michael Kelly shows two of the four graves that were damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa almost six months ago at Parottee in St Elizabeth last Wednesday.
April 28, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

SIX MONTHS IN THE DARK

WESTERN BUREAU: Six months after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, residents of the small coastal community of Parottee in St Elizabeth say their most urgent needs are the restoration of…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness making a presentation in the House of Representatives on April 14.
April 28, 2026

PM to respond to concerns in NaRRA bill

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is expected today to respond to mounting concerns over the proposed National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that…
Basil Bennett, a resident of Parottee, St Elizabeth.
April 28, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

No plans to relocate after sea took home

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-year-old Parotte fisherman Basil Bennett said he stood in stunned disbelief and watched his home collapse under the brutal force of Hurricane Melissa’s Category 5 winds as it…
Leebert Campbell says after Hurricane Melissa left his home submerged by floodwaters, he now lives in constant apprehension of heavy rainfall.
April 28, 2026 by Sashana Small

Flood trauma lingers

The image of his house being submerged in floodwaters still plagues 79-year-old Leebert Campbell, even haunting him in his dreams. His home – located on Gibson Close, off Ward Avenue in Mandeville,…
Nicola McCarthy (third right), grade-six teacher with her students back in school at the Mount Fletcher Primary in Mavis Bank, rural St Andrew, last November after Hurricane Melissa.
April 28, 2026 by Karen Madden

Storm-tested minds

After experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of primary school students will tomorrow sit the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations just six months after the catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane…
Geo mapping 1: Six hundred and fifty five killed by police over threee years. Map shows the hotspots, weapons seized, etc.
April 28, 2026 by Andre Williams

3-year high in police fatal shootings this month

Jamaica is on track to record its deadliest month of fatal shootings by the security forces in more than three years, with 36 people killed up to April 27, the highest monthly tally recorded over the…
April 28, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

Former crime scene officer says no car documents found at site of Acadia shooting

A former police constable who processed the scene of a fatal police shooting in St Andrew in January 2013, yesterday testified that he did not see any car documents at the scene where three men were…
An overturned car among the rubble in Catherine Hall following the passage of Hurricane Melissa late last year.
April 28, 2026 by Janet Silvera

Billions needed to rebuild MoBay’s ‘ground zero’

WESTERN BUREAU: Restoring communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa could cost billions of dollars, with Montego Bay’s mayor warning that the country lacks the financial capacity for full mitigation…
Ten-year-old Enrique Aiken, who is enrolled in the literacy and numeracy programme funded by RIU Resorts at the Wested Educational Centre in Hart Street, Montego Bay in St James. 
April 28, 2026 by Janet Silvera

‘I get to learn more’

WESTERN BUREAU: Ten-year-old Enrique Aiken speaks with quiet confidence, the kind that comes from finally understanding the work in front of him. “I get to learn more stuff – things we did before and…