Browsing: Jamaica

Farm worker Owen Salmon has picked apples in upstate New York for almost a decade, some 1,500 miles (2,400km) from home. In the midst of harvest…

British MPs have joined campaigners calling for more aid and humanitarian visas for Jamaicans to enter the UK after Hurricane Melissa demolished parts of the country,…

Hurricane Melissa has torn through the Caribbean, slamming into Cuba while leaving parts of neighbouring Jamaica broken and reeling from ferocious winds and extreme rainfall.The effects…

October 27, 20253 min readWhy Hurricane Melissa Could Be the Worst Storm to Ever Hit JamaicaCategory 5 Hurricane Melissa’s exceptional strength and slow pace could make…

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, where sheltering residents braced themselves against ferocious winds, heavy flood waters and landslides from the category 5 storm, one…

October 23, 20253 min readNear-Hurricane Melissa Will Drop Mind-Boggling Rain on JamaicaMelissa is currently a slow-moving tropical storm that is expected to rapidly intensify to a…

Friends and family of a British overseas territory (BOT) citizen who died after the UK refused him medical assistance have called for reform of “flawed” policies…

When the Jamaican university student Rayvon Stewart invented a workable model for a door handle that could disinfect itself after every touch, it was hailed as…