The National Water Commission (NWC) has restored supply to 72.6 per cent of its customers across Jamaica. Providing the update during a Special Press Briefing at Jamaica House on Tuesday (November 11), Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, said the NWC expects to get the Great River water supply pipeline in working...

Water levels in sections of Content, Williamsfield, Manchester continue to rise following heavy rainfall before and during the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Deputy Managing Director at the Water Resources Authority (WRA), Geoffrey Marshall, said the latest gauge readings indicate the highest water level recorded since monitoring began on Monday. “We are observing the gauges that we installed, the water level...

Residents from Santa Cruz are now receiving clean, drinking water from the St. Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) well. The access has been made possible through the provision of a generator by businessman Romeich Major, of Romeich Entertainment, to facilitate the pumping of the commodity to serve the institution and the wider community. Since the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which...

In response to the dislocation caused by Hurricane Melissa, the Government has engaged more than 100 private trucks to strengthen water distribution efforts. Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Matthew Samuda, noted that these trucks are now operating in tandem with the National Water Commission (NWC) fleet of 32 vehicles to deliver water to critical areas. He made...

Funds have been allocated to Members of Parliament (MP) for the trucking of water to communities now without the commodity due to the impact of Hurricane Melissa. Speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (Nov. 4), Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, informed that constituencies in the most severely impacted parishes of Westmoreland, Hanover, St. James, St....

The National Water Commission (NWC) has successfully restored access to 65 per cent of its customer base and is aiming to move that figure up to 80 per cent before this weekend. “We can report that we've had 631 systems disrupted, with 132 systems currently active, giving you the total of 763,” Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change, Hon....

In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, residents of Hanover are sharing profound stories of heartbreaking loss, survival and resilience. The Category Five hurricane that struck Jamaica on October 28 has been described as one of the most intense cyclones in the country’s recorded history. The system unleashed widespread destruction across multiple parishes—flattening homes, uprooting trees, and cutting off electricity, water,...