Field hospital to deploy to Jamaica for humanitarian mission Sheria Brathwaite13/11/2025091 views Barbados is dispatching a field medical hospital to Jamaica for humanitarian aid, marking a landmark Caribbean response to Hurricane Melissa and illustrating regional solidarity, the head of the Barbados Defence… Read more
Annual kettle appeal to ‘lend helping hand’ to hurricane-hit Jamaica Barbados Today08/11/2025034 views Barbadians are being urged to give generously this season as the Salvation Army launches its Christmas Kettle Appeal — with a special focus on aiding Jamaica’s recovery from the devastation… Read more
Flash-Flood Watch issued for Barbados Barbados Today07/11/20250372 views The Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) has issued a Flash-Flood Watch for the island as excessive rainfall is expected to affect Barbados today, Friday, November 7.In a bulletin issued recently, the… Read more
Jamaica’s Firewater Mineral Healing Spring survives Hurricane Shanna Moore04/11/20250105 views In Windsor, St Ann, where homes are still roofless and trees lie broken along the roadside, one local landmark survived the terrifying Hurricane Melissa: the famous Firewater Healing Spring. … Read more
Windsor Road residents rally together to improve community Shanna Moore04/11/2025079 views Along the narrow, mud-caked lanes of Windsor Road, the sound of hammers and power saws now fills the air where Hurricane Melissa left silence and ruin. Men climb atop… Read more
Jamaica’s Black River Hospital in ruins, but every patient saved Shanna Moore02/11/20250388 views Doctors and nurses at the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth are recounting scenes of chaos and courage as Hurricane Melissa tore through the southern Jamaican parish earlier last week,… Read more
Jamaica police move to restore order in hurricane-hit Black River Shanna Moore02/11/20250285 views Senior Superintendent Dennis Brooks has given the assurance that Jamaica’s security forces remain fully capable of maintaining law and order in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, even as officers work… Read more
Jamaica’s ‘Home of Champions’ among schools ravaged by Hurricane Melissa Shanna Moore02/11/20250164 views One of the most celebrated secondary schools in southern Jamaica, St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), has been left in ruins following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which devastated central… Read more
‘A God save me’: Survivors recount horror as Hurricane Melissa leaves hundreds homeless in Jamaica Shanna Moore02/11/20250200 views Hundreds of residents in Jamaica’s southern and western parishes have been left homeless following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through the island earlier this week leaving scenes of… Read more
CDEMA on the ground as Jamaica begins recovery from Hurricane Melissa Shanna Moore02/11/2025084 views The Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) is in Jamaica helping to coordinate recovery efforts after Hurricane Melissa left widespread destruction across central and western parishes, including the southern… Read more