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An ODPEM convoy at toll booth at Mammee Bay, St Ann, delivering relief supplies to storm‑hit parishes.
December 9, 2025 by Keisha Hill

New platform aims to bring transparency to hurricane relief

A digital relief mapping and management platform designed to help coordinate disaster relief across the island, has been launched in response to the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa. The…
Left to right: Atario Mitchell, president, Bahamas Striping Group of Companies; Berisford Grey, CEO, Sygnus Capital and Dominic Sturrup, executive chairman, Bahamas Striping Group of Companies.
December 9, 2025

Bahamas firm donates $16m to Sygnus relief initiative

Sygnus has launched its Hurricane Relief and Rebuild Initiative, committing over $16 million toward a $60 million target to support recovery in communities hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa. The…
Niurka Garcia-Linton (left), director of sales at RIU Resorts – Jamaica, addresses the media during a press briefing at RIU Montego Bay on Wednesday, as Somae Pitkin-Shakes, human resource manager, RIU Montego Bay, looks on.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

RIU commits US$2.3m support as 800 staff homes damaged

WESTERN BUREAU: RIU Hotels & Resorts has launched a multimillion-dollar recovery programme for more than 4,000 Jamaican employees, mobilising US$2.3 million in aid, interest-free credit and…
A satisfied smile from Waltham Abbey Primary School Principal Rosa Gallimore Pyne, who breathes a sigh of relief as water is delivered to the St Ann school by Discovery Bauxite, in time for her school reopening. The bauxite company’s water wells have bee
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Discovery Bauxite’s water supplies bring a sigh of relief

Scotia Group Jamaica has donated approximately $18 million to Food For The Poor Jamaica to support the organisation’s ongoing relief and recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. The funds will help provide essential food, care packages, and oth
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Scotia Group donates $18m to Food For The Poor

A team from the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), journeyed to the university’s Western Campus in Montego Bay on November 5, to lend support and deliver relief packages to students and staff severely affected by Hurricane Melissa. Supporting the
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | UTech delivers supplies to western campus following Hurricane Melissa

A house in Brompton, St Elizabeth that was destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Earth Today | Running on empty?

EVEN AS the catastrophic consequences of climate change rain down on the developing world – as evidenced by the destruction and devastation brought to Jamaica’s shores by the Category 5 Hurricane…
Indigenous activists participate in a climate protest during the COP30 UN Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.
December 9, 2025

Earth Today | US$133 million and counting

THE HUNT for financing to support adaptation to climate change is on, with the Adaptation Fund announcing it had secured some US$133 million in pledges at the global climate talks (COP30), which close…
Cynthia Watt, from Lorrimers, Trelawny, chops fallen banana trees in her field that were blown down during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Earth Today | A call for gender-responsive disaster management

WHEN DISASTERS strike, they touch everyone – but not equally. The devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa across Jamaica has shown that factors such as gender, age, physical ability, and location all…