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Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness.
December 9, 2025

Tufton mobilises field hospitals to avert health crisis after Melissa devastation

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government is moving to deploy field hospitals across five western parishes after extensive damage to key medical facilities from Hurricane Melissa. …
Consultant Haematologist-Oncologist at Health Services Authority in the Cayman Islands, Dr Lundie Richards, with staff at the National Blood Transfusion Service (Blood Bank) in Jamaica. The country donated a supply of blood and plasma to Jamaica following
December 9, 2025

Cayman donates supply of blood and plasma to Jamaica to help with Hurricane Melissa recovery

The Cayman Islands Blood Bank, operated by the Health Services Authority, has dispatched a critical donation of 51 units of red cells and 72 units of plasma to the National Blood Transfusion Service…
Damage to the Spur Tree main road in Manchester arising from Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

NWA working to have all major roads reopened to at least single-lane by early next week

The National Works Agency (NWA) says it is making progress clearing blocked roads across the island, noting that up to Friday afternoon some 195 corridors were reported as being impassable due to…
The West Indies pose with the winners’ trophy after whitewashing Bangladesh in their T20I series.
December 9, 2025

WI crush Bangladesh to seal series sweep

CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (CMC): The West Indies did not even need the services of their inspirational skipper Shai Hope to complete a series whitewash of Bangladesh in the third and final T20I here…
The cutest snapshot of the two African spurred tortoises being wheeled back to their enclosure.
December 9, 2025 by Rollesha Laing

GoodHeart | Hope and heart at the zoo after Hurricane Melissa

As Jamaicans across the island rally to support one another in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which hit the country on Tuesday, the team at Hope Zoo in St Andrew has turned their attention to…
Gladstone Taylor/Multimedia Photo Editor Sherman Graham, pastor of Brucefield Gospel Chapel in Brucefield, St Elizabeth, in a moment of reverence at the pulpit of his roofless church on Thursday. The church is one of several across western Jamaica batter
December 9, 2025 by J.T. Davy

‘Wild Gilbert’ singer Lovindeer reflects after Melissa

Last week, Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful cyclonic phenomena to enter the Caribbean region, wreaked havoc across the Greater Antilles. Jamaica was not spared her wrath, with many lives,…
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December 9, 2025

Cuban embargo condemned by UN for 33rd year

The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year. Yet the vote, as Hurricane Melissa tore through the island nation,…
Persons travelling with supplies along Crane Road in Black River St Elizabeth, after Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

UK providing additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding

The UK Government is mobilising an additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding, on top of £2.5 million announced earlier this week, to support Jamaica and the Caribbean region’s recovery…
Energy, Transport and Telecommunications Minister, Daryl Vaz, addressing a special press conference on Hurricane Melissa recovery activities at the Office of the Prime Minister in St Andrew on October 30.
December 9, 2025

USF deploying Starlink satellite to Western communities

The Universal Service Fund (USF) is deploying Starlink satellite-based internet systems to provide immediate broadband coverage in key communities in western Jamaica. Energy, Transport and…