The Caribbean Cat­a­stro­phe Risk In­sur­ance Fa­cil­i­ty (CCRIF) SPC has an­nounced a sec­ond pay­out of US$21.1 mil­lion to the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica due to the trig­ger­ing of the coun­try’s ex­cess rain­fall para­met­ric in­sur­ance pol­i­cy fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa. This fol­lows a pre­vi­ous pay­out of US$70.8 mil­lion on Ja­maica’s trop­i­cal cy­clone pol­i­cy, bring­ing the to­tal re­ceived from CCRIF to US$91.9 mil­lion.

World lead­ers who de­scend­ed on the Unit­ed Na­tions an­nu­al cli­mate sum­mit in Brazil on Thurs­day on­ly need­ed to look out their air­plane win­dows to sense the un­fath­omable stakes.

A light­ning strike is be­lieved to have caused the pow­er out­age at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, ac­cord­ing to North-Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Pho­to: The Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion an­nounced Wednes­day that it will re­duce air traf­fic by 10% across 40 “high-vol­ume” mar­kets be­gin­ning Fri­day morn­ing to main­tain safe­ty dur­ing the on­go­ing gov­ern­ment shut­down.