The structural vulnerability of many Jamaican schools is linked to decades of under-resourcing, where the state has adopted ...

These tensions are brilliantly captured in Jamaica Kincaid’s breathless, single-sentence short story “Girl,” first published ...

Ziggy Marley and his family are spearheading efforts to rebuild the country with the help of artists like Kenny Chesney and Blues Traveler.

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"I am grateful to God to be here, to be home, to be safe and to be alive," Britt-Johnson said. Britt-Johnson shared an embrace among a group, she says, helped save her life. The south suburban woman ...

Trinette Britt-Johnson, 58, who underwent the operation last year, has been unable to access the critical medication NBC Chicago/YouTube A Chicago woman is stuck in Jamaica without life-saving kidney ...

Jamaican superstar Sean Paul offered fans a rare window into life amid Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic landfall, posting dramatic clips of pounding rain, roaring winds, and debris swirling around his ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- 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. Trinette Britt-Johnson ...

HAVANA/KINGSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Melissa unleashed devastation in Jamaica as the strongest storm on record ever to hit the Caribbean island nation, and roared later on Wednesday into eastern Cuba ...

The scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa is emerging, with dozens of people known to have died in Haiti and four deaths reported in Jamaica - and the storm is now approaching the ...

Hurricane Melissa ripped the roof off of a building at the Savanna La Mar Public General Hospital in Jamaica as the storm raged across the island on Tuesday. The hospital is part of the Western ...

“Residents in Jamaica should remain in a safe shelter,” the National Hurricane Center advised. “In the warning area in Cuba and the Bahamas, preparations to protect life and property should be rushed ...