The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall over Jamaica was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, a Category 4 hurricane, with ...

A well-known Charleston nonprofit teams up with a group with Jamaican ties to help the island nation decimated by Hurricane ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and ...

Six people have died of leptospirosis, a rare bacterial illness often found in contaminated water. The storm increased the ...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) recently announced plans to begin welcoming guests back to Jamaica on Saturday, December ...

Jamaica has declared an outbreak of the bacterial disease leptospirosis, suspected of causing six deaths, following the ...

The figures, released through the World Bank’s Global Rapid Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology, highlight the enormous ...

Hurricane Melissa - the world's strongest-ever recorded hurricane - and Chabad still has no electricity, no water, and nearly ...

A small group of Coloradans are heading to Jamaica to provide eye care to low-income families after Hurricane Melissa.

Jackson is now focusing her efforts on raising money for hurricane victims, especially children, by paying their school fees.

Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.

The hurricane made landfall on 28 October as a category five storm in Jamaica, where people remain stuck on roofs and without ...