new video loaded: The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane Melissa transcript Back transcript The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane Melissa Days after a powerful hurricane made landfall in Jamaica, thousands of residents are now homeless and trying to make sense of how they narrowly survived. The New York Times traveled to the storm’s…
new video loaded: Flooding Remains in Some of the Hardest Hit Areas in Jamaica Three days after Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica, floodwaters have continued to rise in St. Elizabeth Parish because of blocked drainage system. As of Friday, homes and roads remained flooded, and power had not been restored. By Erin Schaff and Jamie Leventhal…
Key West, Florida — Across the U.S., there are furious efforts to get aid into the Caribbean nation of Jamaica following the trail of destruction and devastation left by Hurricane Melissa. Tens of thousands remain in shelters, and about 490,000 homes and businesses were still without power as of Thursday, or about 72% of the…
Published on: Oct 30, 2025 04:43 am IST Hurricane Melissa is barreling northeast toward the Bahamas, after leaving a trail of destruction across Jamaica and the eastern side of Cuba. Hurricane Melissa is barreling northeast toward the Bahamas, after leaving a trail of destruction across Jamaica and the eastern side of Cuba. A woman stands…
Published on: Oct 29, 2025 01:53 am IST As of the most recent NHC update, Hurricane Melissa’s center has moved over Jamaica’s north coast, near the tourist resort town of Montego Bay. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon as a powerful Category 5 hurricane, unleashing catastrophic winds, heavy rainfall, and massive…
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica around 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said. With maximum sustained winds of 185 mph, it’s “one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic Basin.” About an hour after making landfall in southwestern Jamaica, near New Hope, the storm remained an “extremely…
Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm Sunday night, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. A person watches waves crash on the beach in Port Royal,…
Photo: Jik-Reuben Pringle “Jamaica’s footprint is so global,” says James-Williams, pointing to Maximilian Davis at Ferragamo and Grace Wales Bonner. “[These are] Jamaican heritage brands in a way, with their designs, and none of them are shoppable on the island. I was on a quest to fix that. She reached out to Skylark, and successfully…
Beneath the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean lie small, black, potato-sized treasures – polymetallic nodules rich in valuable metals and rare earth elements – waiting to be unearthed. Strewn across the sea floor of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, the coveted nodules and other forms of ocean deposits are gaining widespread attention. Yet…
United States President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/File) Photo : AP United States President Donald Trump has identified China, Pakistan and Afghanistan among 23 countries he says are major drug transit or illicit drug-producing nations, warning that their activities are a threat to the safety of the United States. In a “Presidential Determination” submitted to Congress…