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In this October 30 photo a man is seen sitting by the roadside on High Street, Black River, surrounded by debris of structures damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Keisha Hill

British sisters set to raise funds to assist Hurricane Melissa victims

Following the devastation caused by Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, Naomi and Emily Townsend, two sisters from South Croydon in the United Kingdom, have set themselves a challenging goal: walking 22…
Major General (Retired) Antony Anderson, ambassador of Jamaica to the United States.
December 9, 2025 by Lester Hinds

Anderson praises diaspora mobilisation for hurricane relief

In the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Major General (Retired) Antony Anderson, has praised the response of the Jamaican diaspora to…
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (right), founder of the Pocket Rocket Foundation, joins volunteers last Friday in assembling care packages for families impacted by Hurricane Melissa. The initiative forms part of the Foundation’s national relief drive to support
December 9, 2025

Pocket Rocket Foundation launches Melissa relief effort

The Pocket Rocket Foundation has launched a relief initiative to assist student-athletes, their families, schools and the wider communities affected by Hurricane Melissa. Founder and Chairwoman…
Laura Littlebear, vice president, Greater Good Charities.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Bees of hope

When Hurricane Melissa flattened crops and stripped Jamaica’s hillsides bare, few thought about the smallest victims – the bees. But for Laura Littlebear of Greater Good Charities, saving these…
Pastor Glen Samuels, president of the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
December 9, 2025

Gilbert was ‘chicken feed’ to Melissa, says Pastor Glen Samuels

The Black River Adventist Church, located in the capital of St Elizabeth, stands roofless and flooded after Hurricane Melissa tore through the area on October 28, damaging trees and property across…
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December 9, 2025

Educators to be counselled on strategies for addressing hurricane trauma

In recognising how deeply traumatised many Jamaicans have been as a result of the ravages of Hurricane Melissa, the Pamella’s Sunrise Foundation, in collaboration with the Guidance Counselling Unit of…
Jamaican ceramic ocean activist artist, Anna-K Cuffe, with her pieces at the second Art in Motion exhibition titled ‘Eco Art Expressions’ held at Withrow Common Gallery at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
December 9, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Artist urges Canadians to support Hurricane Melissa relief efforts

TORONTO: Jamaican artist Anna-K Cuffe has urged an audience in Toronto, Canada, to donate to the Government’s Hurricane Melissa relief effort website, supportjamaica.gov.jm, to help rebuild…
Dr OmiSoore Dryden.
December 9, 2025

Jamaican-Canadian professor named Canada Research Chair

TORONTO: Dr OmiSoore Dryden, a full professor at the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been awarded a prestigious research professorship…
Despite facing significant damage to its own St Mary farm operations, the JP Farms team mobilised swiftly to deliver a truckload of food items – fresh bananas, plantains and assorted St Mary’s snacks – to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Sa
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | JP Farms delivers food items to hurricane relief effort