Trelawny residents have gone nine months without piped water since Hurricane Melissa. A local councillor says only a demonstration will get the National Water Commission’s real attention.

Works Minister Robert Morgan says 55 bridges, including seven emergency structures, are being tackled under an Accelerated Bridge Programme built to withstand harsher weather.

An architectural impression of the over 600-unit Hamptons Trelawny housing development to be constructed by BC Dundee in partnership with FosRich Company…

Bishop Maurice Clarke of Central Light Grace Chapel in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, shipped more than 34 generators and other supplies to Trelawny after Hurricane Melissa, using the New Testament Church of God on Market Street, Falmouth, as the distribution hub.

Falmouth Mayor C Junior Gager said churches, like everyone else, must get Trelawny Municipal Corporation approval before rebuilding after Hurricane Melissa, warning that unexamined steelwork could lead to ‘another disaster’.

A Gleaner letter writer listed heritage churches hit by Hurricane Melissa, including William Knibb Baptist in Falmouth and Calvary Baptist in Montego Bay, and called for diaspora and donor partnerships with clear timelines and dedicated funding.

Hurricane Melissa destroyed a 145-year-old Methodist church and a 125-year-old Baptist church in Duanvale, Trelawny. Church leaders want to keep the Methodist ruins as heritage, but engineers say they must be demolished and rebuilt.

Bishop Henry B. Fernandez of The Faith Center Ministries in Sunrise, Florida, staged a One Love Jamaica Rebuild concert to buy zinc, plywood and supplies for Melissa-hit homes in St Elizabeth, Trelawny and Westmoreland.

Hurricane Melissa damaged or destroyed about 40 heritage structures, the Gleaner reported, including Beeston Spring Moravian Church in Westmoreland, reduced to rubble, and St Michael’s Anglican in Clark’s Town, Trelawny.

Portmore’s House of Transformation Worship Centre took about 30 volunteers, a doctor, tarpaulins, beds and hot meals to Trelawny after Hurricane Melissa, saying the parish’s scattered house damage was being overlooked.