Jamaica Observer Online, in association with a number of partners, has produced its 2024 Hurricane Season Guide. This is one ...

Hurricane Francine made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. 11 bringing with it 90 mph winds and storm surge dropping between eight to nine inches of rain in parts of Mandeville and Lacombe, according to ...

Hurricane Francine struck Louisiana on Wednesday evening as a Category 2 storm that forecasters warned could bring deadly ...

Mayor Eric Adams visited Queens Village on Monday to highlight flood prevention and disaster preparedness investments across ...

And when hurricane season comes, it roars ... Dominica’s population and left a linguistic legacy of English and French-based Creole. If you go to Jamaica for jerk and Trinidad for roti, you go to ...

In his new book, ‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain,’ music impresario Joe Boyd traces the vast influence of global music. Here, ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is making an announcement on extreme weather and public safety today in Queens.

Sewer upgrades and other flood mitigation infrastructure have been installed in flood-prone parts of Queens, Mayor Eric Adams ...

Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the rain rushed in, a ...

A portion of United Way of Jamaica’s Farmer’s Rehabilitation Fund specifically goes to women landowners to help repair their ...

The parent company of the Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store chain is turning down a takeover offer from Alimentation Couche-Tard of Canada. In a letter made public Friday, Stephen ...

More than two months after the powerful storm, the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record in July, some farmers in Jamaica are still unable to restore their crops and repair their homes. A women-led ...