Holland High: Two months of Melissa misery
December 2025
by Robert Bailey/Gleaner Writer
Holland High: Two months of Melissa misery
Nearly two months after the passage of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, the devastation continues to weigh heavily on the athletes of Holland High School and their head coach Garth Smythe. Smythe said that many students are still struggling to recover from the disaster, which ravaged the western end of the island on October 28 and claimed the lives of more than 50 Jamaicans.