Jamaica News News Jamaica » Life: Live cameras: Hurricane Melissa brings life-threatening impacts to Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Jamaica Tuesday and was unleashing extremely dangerous winds, flooding and storm surge on the land.
News Jamaica » Life: Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica causing life-threatening flooding and catastrophic winds
The time to prepare is over, and millions of people across the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica are hunkering down and praying for safety as Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic and historic assault ...
News Jamaica » Life: Life-changing impacts to Jamaica as Melissa moves closer
NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO) — Hurricane Melissa has become a truly historic storm — a powerful, slow-moving Category 5 hurricane that’s now setting its sights on Jamaica. The storm has strengthened rapidly ...
News Jamaica » Life: Chicago-area official stranded in Jamaica without life-saving medication after hurricane
A local government staffer from Chicago’s south suburbs is stranded in Jamaica without the medication keeping her transplanted kidney functioning.
News Jamaica » Life: Rich Township employee stranded in Jamaica without life-saving medication after Hurricane Melissa
Cook County leaders are pleading with the federal government Thursday to hopefully help one of their own who is stuck in Jamaica without life-saving medication.
News Jamaica » Life: Zoo’s Mission to Save 1,500 Animals Before Hurricane Melissa Struck Jamaica
The zoo in Kingston, Jamaica worked endlessly to secure the 1,500 animals in their care before the hurricane made landfall.
News Jamaica » Life: Samaritan’s Purse disaster response team heads to Jamaica with hurricane relief supplies
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team and more than 38,000 pounds of life-saving relief supplies to Jamaica to help with Hurricane Melissa recovery effects.
News Jamaica » Life: Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica with 185 mph winds. Florida impact?
Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm of the 2025 Atlantic season, made landfall in Jamaica Tuesday as possibly its worst storm in recorded history.
News Jamaica » Life: Watch Live: Hurricane Melissa slams into Jamaica with 185-mph winds
Hurricane Melissa is making landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to hit the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago.
News Jamaica » Life: Live tracker: Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa lashes Jamaica as Cuba preps for strike
A life-threatening storm surge of up to 13 feet is expected across southern Jamaica, with officials concerned about the impact on some hospitals along ...
News Jamaica » Life: Jamaica's Prime Minister: 'Stay inside, protect life'
Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness joins Katy Tur from Kingston as Hurricane Melissa hits the country as a Category 5 storm. Holness shares more about the efforts to prepare residents and what ...
News Jamaica » Life: See Hurricane Melissa tracker, path as Category 4 storm makes way across Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica around 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 28, according to the National Hurricane Center.