Flooding rain from Tropical Storm Grace has complicated rescue and recovery efforts in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti in which 1,941 people have now died. Meanwhile over 500…
Heavy rainfall caused damaging flash floods in Jamaica on 08 January 2021. According to media reports, St James Parish in the north west of the island was the worst affected…
More than 280 roads have been damaged by heavy rainfall and flooding in Jamaica in the last 3 weeks. Heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Storms Eta and Zeta has affected…
Hurricane “Eta” made landfall on 03 November in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN) of Nicaragua as a category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 220 km/h. ETA was…
At least 2 people have died after heavy rain caused floods and landslides in Jamaica. Jamaica’s Meteorological Service issued several warnings for heavy rain and flash floods over the weekend.…
Strong winds of up to 85 km/h and heavy rainfall brought by Tropical Storm Laura have caused severe damage in Haiti and Dominican Republic, with at least 11 fatalities reported.…
Rain, flooding and landslides in parts of the Caribbean have caused at least 4 fatalities and displaced around 4,000 people. Heavy rain has affected Jamaica, Haiti and Dominican Republic since…
Jamaica’s weather forecasting capacity will be boosted with the addition of 35 automatic weather stations to the Meteorological Service Division’s (MSJ) network across the island. The weather stations, which will…
Montego Bay in Saint James Parish, Jamaica, was severely impacted by flash flooding on 22 November 2017, after almost one month of rain fell in 4 hours. On a tour…
“A lot of the damage now comes from extreme precipitation. So that translates into floods, landslides, loss of life, loss of livelihoods” BOGOTA, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As…
BELIZE CITY, Belize – A new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) estimates that 4.2 million people in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean and in the…
Heavy rain over the last few days has caused flooding in parts of the Caribbean, including Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. Haiti In Haiti, the Ministry of Interior issued a…
Heavy rain from Friday 21 April, 2017 caused flooding in parts of southern Jamaica. Images from news reports and Social Media showed cars submerged in flood water almost 2 metres…
A national emergency communication network is to be established to strengthen early warning systems for disasters at the local level. This has been disclosed by Minister of Local Government and…
Heavy rain on 11 December, 2016, caused flooding in parts of the northern parishes of St Ann and St Mary in Jamaica. The worst hit areas were Runaway Bay and…
Flooding and landslides have affected parts of eastern Jamaica since 27 October after a period of heavy rain. Jamaica’s National Works Agency (NWA) says that hundreds of people “are now…
