Gabrielle Henry will remain in the intensive care unit (ICU) for a minimum of 7 days as her "doctors continue close monitoring and specialized care" Courtesy Miss Universe Jamaica Miss Jamaica, ...

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 7, 2025 — Following Hurricane Melissa, the Government of Jamaica will receive a full payout of $150 million under its catastrophe insurance coverage with the World Bank, backed by ...

Jamaica is determined to welcome winter holidaymakers this year. Hurricane Melissa tore through the west of the island in late October, upending communities and cutting off travel before the most ...

Rollin Salmond uses an electrical saw to cut sections of a tree blocking the entrance to his home in Longwood, St Elizabeth, Jamaica on October 29, 2025. Hurricane Melissa ripped up trees and knocked ...

All of Jamaica’s financial defenses — insurance, bonds and credit lines — could be deployed to recover from Hurricane Melissa. Will it be enough? By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and David C. Adams Emiliano ...

A family in Cuba salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images) After ...

Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this week.

The scale of the destruction left by Hurricane Melissa as it tore across Jamaica is now being revealed by the first photos taken by satellites. The eye of the storm made landfall on the southwest ...

Traffic snarled as stoplights lay among piles of debris. Once-mighty trees and power lines in ruin on streets turned to rivers. Entire communities swept away by wind and floodwater, according to ...

Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction as it moved across Jamaica, seen for the first time from space in new satellite images obtained from Vantor. The storm made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday ...

When Hurricane Melissa reached Jamaica with Category 5 ferocity, the island was slammed by gale‑force winds and torrential rain, placing the Caribbean nation into a full‑blown humanitarian crisis. The ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm before hitting Cuba as a Category 3. The storm caused at least one death in Jamaica and "total devastation" in western parts of the ...