Hurricane Melissa has claimed 19 lives after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. Information Minister Dr. Dana Morris Dixon gave the update on Thursday. Eight of the deaths were confirmed in St.
In July 2024, Hurricane Beryl’s outer bands battered Jamaica’s southern coast. The seaside communities of the southern parishes of Clarendon, Manchester and St. Elizabeth were the worst affected, and ...
Veteran broadcaster and cultural icon Barrington Seymour Gordon, better known as Barry G 'The Boogeyman', has died.
Disaster recovery is much harder on isolated islands, and people may migrate away if it’s too slow. Support from Jamaicans in ...
Barrington “Barry G” Gordon, whose exuberant delivery and charismatic personality made him one of Jamaica’s great ...
Drone footage shows utter devastation and people searching for resources in Black River, Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa made landfall.
Hurricane Melissa is on track to pass through the southeastern islands of the Bahamas, which are sparsely populated compared ...
Hurricane Melissa has caused devastating flooding in Haiti, leading to at least 20 deaths on the island. Many homes have been ...
So far, most of the drivers Observer Online has spoken to on the way to storm-hit western Jamaica have had one enduring ...
Hurricane Melissa is making landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to hit the island since ...
P.J. Patterson told WESH 2 that Jamaicans are resilient and that he has complete faith his island nation will pull through ...
The Caribbean storm — among the most powerful in history, with 185 mph winds — is expected to bring flash-flooding and ...