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December 9, 2025
Yoni Epstein | Outsourcing beyond the storm
On October 28, Jamaica witnessed a once-in-a-generation storm, a Category 5 hurricane, the largest to make landfall on the island since Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, and we are just beginning to…
December 9, 2025
JPS to use Bogue Island facility to help restore electricity in the west
In an effort to reconnect the remaining 25 per cent of Jamaica Public Service (JPS) customers who still remain without electricity, especially in the western parts of the island, the sole power…
December 9, 2025
Malaysia to ban social media for children under 16 next year
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia plans to ban social media accounts for people under 16 starting in 2026, joining Australia and a growing number of countries pushing tighter digital age limits…
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | COP30 and G20 outcomes – Disappointing
ON MONDAY morning with the announcement of the death of one of Jamaica’s most outstanding reggae music pioneers, Jimmy Cliff, the temptation was to focus on his career, his achievements, including his…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Do COVID-style transfers
Garnett Reid, the president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), succinctly encapsulated the argument this newspaper has been making since Hurricane Melissa devastated the western…
December 9, 2025
Climate-resilient housing not optional
THE EDITOR, Madam: The vulnerability of Jamaica’s building stock to hurricanes in the order of a Category 5 hurricane was dramatically exposed in the passage of Hurricane Melissa. The impact was…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Re: Hurricane Melissa’s lesson for constitutional reform
THE EDITOR, Madam: Rosalea Hamilton’s article, ‘A Lesson for Constitutional Reform’, lands with precision. Hurricane Melissa did more than devastate the western parishes; it exposed the cracks in…
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December 9, 2025
by Mickalia Kington
Supplies flow from diaspora to parishes ravaged by Hurricane Melissa
WESTERN BUREAU: When Hurricane Melissa battered Jamaica’s southern and western parishes nearly a month ago, the silence it left behind — dead phones, vanished roads, unanswered calls — sparked a wave…