Florida-Based Relief Groups Launch Efforts to Storm-Ravaged Jamaica

Reggae Star Shaggy Lands in Hurricane Ravaged Jamaica with Planeload of Supplies, Help for Locals: It WAS Him!

Reggae star Shaggy’s famous song is “It Wasn’t Me.” But it IS him– aka Orville Rogers — who landed today in Jamaica with a private plane full of supplies for locals. Shaggy enlisted his friend Dan Newlin, famed injury attorney from Orlando, to organize the plane and fly down to help victims of Hurricane Melissa. […] The post Reggae Star Shaggy Lands in Hurricane Ravaged Jamaica with Planeload of Supplies, Help for Locals: It WAS Him! appeared fi…

Rebuilding the Caribbean, together: Hurricane Melissa relief efforts to support

From Jamaica to Haiti, these nonprofit organizations and community groups are working to help communities rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.

U.S.-based aid groups rush to get supplies into storm-battered Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa

Tens of thousands of Jamaicans were in shelters, and more than two-thirds of the island was still without power, according to officials.

Florida-based relief groups launch efforts to storm-ravaged Jamaica

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, with widespread flooding, destroyed homes, and washed-out roads.

Jewish aid groups send teams, supplies and funds to Jamaica in wake of Hurricane Melissa

Jewish and Israeli groups are scrambling to send aid and resources to the storm-rocked Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, tore through the area after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. The storm, among the strongest Atlantic storms in 150 years, has severely damaged Jamaica’s infrastructure and cut off electricity to large swaths of the island, leaving its full impact in the worst hit areas unknown. Across Haiti, Jamaica …

Aid flights sent from Florida for Hurricane Melissa victims in Jamaica

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