This island home of ours has long known the power of wind and water. Yet nothing quite prepared us for the ferocity of ...

Born and raised in Jamaica, Damion Gordon was back on the island for his sister's wedding when Category 5 Hurricane Melissa ...

A lifeless body in a home. A toddler looking at her broken bed. A mom with a prescription and nowhere to fill it. This is ...

It’s been nearly a week since Hurricane Melissa made its first catastrophic landfall in Jamaica, and the death toll is ...

Hurricane Melissa devastated much of Jamaica last month. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elaine Bradley, whose home lost its roof, about recovery efforts in the town of Negril.

The emotional reunion took place at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport with flowers, balloons and hugs as family ...

It’s been nearly a week since Hurricane Melissa made its first catastrophic landfall in Jamaica, and the death toll is ...

Beyond poetic optimism, this is the lived reality of survival against impossible odds - odds that faced Jamaica when Hurricane Melissa made landfall on its northern coast with sustained winds ...

Cook County official Trinette Britt-Johnson is set to be welcomed home in Chicago on Sunday after a life-threatening ordeal ...

In Jamaica, the destruction comes just 15 months after Hurricane Beryl impacted more than 50,000 farmers and 11,000 fishers, and caused $4.73 billion Jamaican dollars (about $29 million) in losses, ...

Melissa tore through the Caribbean as one of the most powerful storms in history, slamming Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane earlier this week.

Bob Marley's music is beloved all over the world, and songs like "I Shot the Sheriff" and "No Woman, No Cry" are among his very best.