One month after Hurricane Melissa made landfall at Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica has received its Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility payout of $38 million USD — and the government has outlined the framework through which it intends to spend it.

JPS reports 97 percent power restoration; final Westmoreland communities expected online by week’s end Water Commission achieves 88 percent supply restoration; five…

Three weeks after Hurricane Melissa’s landfall at Black River, the divergence in Jamaica’s recovery story is becoming impossible to ignore.

One week since landfall: 85 percent of power, 60 percent of water supply restored across impact zone Last official emergency shelter closes…

Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa made landfall at Black River, St. Elizabeth, the western parishes of Jamaica remain in a state of partial paralysis — infrastructure damaged, communities displaced, and a political question beginning to take shape beneath the logistics of recovery.

NWA awards emergency contracts to clear and repair 43 blocked roads in western parishes National Water Commission says piped supply restored to…

JPS reports 68 percent of affected customers restored; Westmoreland remains most challenging zone Shelter population falls to 27,000 as transitional housing program…

Jamaica observes national day of mourning; memorial service held at Kingston’s National Arena Power restored to 52 percent of affected customers; full…

Preliminary structural assessments carried out in the parishes of St. Elizabeth, Westmoreland, and Hanover in the week after Hurricane Melissa’s landfall at Black River reveal a troubling pattern: 62 percent of buildings that suffered structural collapse had documented permit violations — construction that deviated in significant ways from the approved plans on file.

Official death toll confirmed at 58; search and rescue formally transitions to recovery operations Sangster International Airport reopens to humanitarian and limited…