Shaggy Recounts His Relief Mission to Jamaica After Hurricane Melissa and Shares How You Can Help

Shaggy recounts his relief mission to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa and shares how you can help

As Hurricane Melissa intensified to a Category 5 storm pointing right at Jamaica, Shaggy knew he had to help, he just wasn’t sure how. So he asked ChatGPT. “I don’t know anything about relief and how to prepare for a storm,” the Grammy-winning reggae musician said. “I went to ChatGPT and looked at what we would need in a storm, and we just bought that. Luckily, that’s exactly what they needed.” Orville Richard Burrell, known for pop-dancehall hi…

Mapping Level of Destruction in Jamaica After Hurricane Melissa

Bloomberg News has created a visualization mapping the extent of structural damage across Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa struck in late October 2025. Using satellite analysis, it estimates how much of each community’s built area the storm affected, with colors from yellow to deep red marking 0 to 40 percent destruction. Western towns such as Black River, where the storm made landfall, appear in the darkest shades, while eastern regions like Kin…

Clergy, Religious share first days after ‘Melissa’

JAMAICA The Archdiocese of Kingston confirmed that they have lost a church, school and rectory in Black River following Hurricane Melissa. A Catholic Opinion Online article reported that Fr Francis Arumanaithan has led several forays into St Elizabeth to contact communities there. “We have managed to locate Fr Thomas Ngigi, Deacon Tony Hall, and wife Esther. However, they have chosen to remain in Black River with their communities despite our ma…

Hurricane Melissa: Lend Jamaica And It’s Wonderful People A Helping Hand

I’ve been lucky enough to visit Jamaica a good six or seven times in my life. It’s a stunningly beautiful island with truly spectacular, welcoming people. But Hurricane Melissa wrought far more damage to Jamaica than I think most of us understand. A good friend of mine hails from the island and says the western end of Jamaica was devastated by Hurricane Melissa. Many, many people are still unaccounted for. I asked her about great places where pe…