The Latest Breaking News from Jamaica

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as a singular disaster misses the bigger picture: Melissa didn’t hit stable, resilient islands. It hit islands still…

Jamaica’s government says that the number of confirmed deaths from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 45, with 15 other people still missing

After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal discipline, it slashed its debt from a staggering 150% of GDP in 2013 to just 62% by 2024.

A Christian missionary father and daughter were killed after their plane crashed whilst en route to Jamaica to deliver hurricane relief supplies.

Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena died in Florida crash as they were flying supplies to Jamaica

The plane made four other trips to or from Jamaica in the past week

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The plane was on its way to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated the nation late last month

A small turboprop plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs

Scotland and Norway sealed their places at the men’s World Cup for the first time since 1998, with several other nations battling to emerge from qualifying to feature in the USA, Canada and Mexico

Hurricane Melissa has caused at least 75 deaths and potentially $50bn in damage across the Caribbean