The Collaboratory, based in Southwest Florida, is working with Fort Myers advocate Cornell Bunting and the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency to channel aid to Jamaica. Their efforts aim to make it easy for local donors to contribute meaningfully to ...

Jamaica is beginning a long recovery after taking the direct hit from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall as a Category Five storm earlier this week. Communities from Montego Bay to the southern coast sustained catastrophic damage,

Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall on Jamaica and Cuba as an extremely dangerous major hurricane and will still be at hurricane strength when it moves across the southeastern Bahamas. Significant impacts to Florida and the U.S. East Coast are ...

As residents of Jamaica brace for Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds, South Florida cities and organizations are getting ready to send support<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwest Jamaica this week near the coastal town of Black River, which the government has described as “ground zero.”

Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday.