A family of six in New Market, St Elizabeth, who had lived in a church manse after losing their rented home, has spent eight months in an unfinished church hall since Hurricane Melissa, the Jamaica Star reported.

The Labour Ministry is meeting St Elizabeth residents one by one to fix records that have held up ROOFS roof repair grants after Hurricane Melissa.

Ground has been broken on a $147.8 million NWC project to replace a 50-year-old water main in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, benefiting about 1,200 residents in 300 households.

About $17 million in hurricane clean-up grants went to 101 St Elizabeth churches in April 2026, the first payout from a $75 million programme covering over 400 churches in five parishes hit by Hurricane Melissa.

Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie said in April 2026 that his ministry will ask churches island-wide to provide disaster shelter space, as over 400 churches were set to receive post-Melissa clean-up grants, with St Elizabeth getting over $17 million.

JPS says communities in St James, Westmoreland, St Elizabeth and Hanover are scheduled for restoration by March 31, with fewer than 9,000 customers still without power.

The former board of the Mavis Fraser-Davis Trust, closed in 2021, gave its remaining J$2.6 million to St Albans Anglican and Bethlehem Moravian churches in Malvern, St Elizabeth, to help students affected by Hurricane Melissa.

A now-defunct educator’s trust made its final distribution: $2.6 million split between two St Elizabeth churches, arriving during a period when many congregations have struggled to access government post-Melissa funding.

VM Group and Food For The Poor handed a two-bedroom home in Myersville, St Elizabeth, to Novia Russell, a single mother caring for children, a niece and her elderly mother, after Hurricane Melissa hit the family.

Two New Testament Church of God congregations ran Mission Rise 3.0 in St Elizabeth after Hurricane Melissa, repairing three badly damaged homes and bringing medical, dental and legal help, even as the Middle Quarters church itself lost its roof.