The De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (CAF) has ap­proved US$670,000 in emer­gency grant fund­ing for Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

The fam­i­ly of 26-year-old fish­er­man Chad Joseph, who is be­lieved to have been killed in a US airstrike, has filed a miss­ing per­son re­port with the Mara­cas Bay Po­lice.

British po­lice dis­missed spec­u­la­tion on Sun­day that a mass stab­bing at­tack on a Lon­don-bound train the pre­vi­ous evening was ter­ror­ism-re­lat­ed but said two peo­ple who were wound­ed re­main in life-threat­en­ing con­di­tion.

En­ter­tain­ment Min­is­ter Olivia Grange says her Min­istry will be lead­ing a se­ries of fundrais­ing con­certs on the is­land and across the world to sup­port Ja­maica in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Po­lice said around 8.20 pm, 31-year-old labour­er An­ge­lo Le­an­dre was wash­ing his car when sev­er­al armed men ap­proached and opened fire.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has slashed the num­ber of work per­mits is­sued to Venezue­lans from 4,275 in 2024 to a mere 757 this year. This re­flects a de­cline of 3,518 per­mits, or an 82 per cent de­crease.

Shell says it is mon­i­tor­ing the diplo­mat­ic fall­out be­tween T&T and Venezuela and as­sess­ing any pos­si­ble im­pact on the Drag­on gas project.

The pub­lic’s help is be­ing sought to iden­ti­fy the body of an African man who was re­cov­ered float­ing in the wa­ters off Sea Lots on Fri­day.

Venezue­lan in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert An­drés Pieran­toni is crit­i­cis­ing T&T for dis­man­tling its tra­di­tion­al re­la­tion­ship with most of Cari­com as its re­la­tion­ship with the US gets deep­er.

The Unit­ed Na­tions’ most im­por­tant cli­mate change con­fer­ence, COP30, will start this week in Belem, Brazil. As world lead­ers and ne­go­tia­tors dis­cuss the way for­ward in the cli­mate fight, Ja­maicans, Cubans, Haitians and Ba­hami­ans will con­tin­ue to pick up the pieces from what was left be­hind by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has sent an ad­vance team from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) to Ja­maica to as­sist in the re­cov­ery fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, with an­oth­er team set to fol­low soon.

A scuf­fle among sev­er­al men dur­ing a Hal­loween par­ty in Mal­oney in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day left two nurs­ing in­juries at hos­pi­tal.