Lead Stories
December 9, 2025
by Gloria Charite
Hurricane's impact extends beyond infrastructure to mental health
This article marks the first in a series highlighting Youth Voices in Hurricane Melissa Recovery. It will feature perspectives from youth as they reflect on key areas of the recovery process, offering…
December 9, 2025
by Andre Williams
Pencils4Kids delivers $2m in relief to hurricane-hit Quickstep, Donegal
New York City-based charity Pencils4Kids has stepped in with relief support for the residents of Quickstep and Donegal in St Elizabeth, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. The…
December 9, 2025
‘This is survival’
BELEM, Brazil (AP): Battered by last month’s ferocious climate-fuelled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished countries at Monday’s United Nations climate talks to…
December 9, 2025
by Edmond Campbell
Community colleges struggle to bounce back from Melissa’s battering
A senior official in the Ministry of Education says community colleges heavily damaged by Hurricane Melissa have received interim clean-up grants to help remove debris from their campuses. With…
December 9, 2025
by Janet Silvera
Couples Resorts sets up disaster relief fund as more than 100 staff lose homes
WESTERN BUREAU: Couples Resorts has launched a multimillion-dollar relief initiative to support employees and surrounding communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa, which struck western Jamaica on…
December 9, 2025
by Kimone Francis
Melissa’s fury sparks demand for temporary protection for J’cans in US
New York Attorney General Letitia James has called on the Trump administration to extend its Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Jamaicans in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.…
December 9, 2025
by Lester Hinds
Barrel shortage
NEW YORK: As relief efforts intensify following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, shippers in the United States say they are now grappling with a shortage of barrels needed to send supplies…
December 9, 2025
by Audley Boyd
STRIKING DISTANCE
Twenty-eight years and two days to the day, Jamaica’s senior men’s football team secured historic qualification to FIFA’s World Cup Finals – France ‘98 – with a goalless draw against Mexico at…
December 9, 2025
CARICOM leaders rally around Jamaica amid ‘unprecendented’ destruction
WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly one million Jamaicans have been affected and more than 150,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, prompting a major regional response led by Guyana, which has…