Reversing the situation will require the international community and donors to increase the funding of UN and non-governmental organization (NGO) relief operations, the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, said in its latest advocacy note.

Growing hunger and needs
Months of violence have led to a deterioration of Haiti’s humanitarian crisis. Displacement has tripled in the last year in Haiti as gang violence continues to rock the Caribbean-island nation, with nearly 600,000 people on the run.

“Responding to this complex outbreak requires a comprehensive and coordinated international response,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States, as cases spread beyond Africa to Europe and Asia.

The briefing was held just over a week after he declared that mpox was a public health emergency of international concern.

The scale and extensiveness of the JPS bill increase for August came to the OUR’s attention after the utility began to dispatch the bills and customers started to complain about high electricity charges.

In 2021 the OUR communicated to JPS that it viewed any average increase in overall rates in excess of 5% to be a rate or bill shock; a situation that should be avoided. Previously, in one-off spikes, the regulatory treatment is that the additional cost to customers was spread over several months to mitigate the effects on customers.

The 47-year-old enjoys being a part of different types of sports but has a special love for nontraditional sports like table tennis, volleyball, golf and especially badminton. He was involved in sporting activities from the age of 11 when he started playing football and cricket in primary school then basketball throughout his high school years at Arden High.

Georgieva’s comments came as she announced this morning her proposed appointment of the Jamaica Finance Minister to the position of Deputy Managing Director, effective October 31, 2024.

He will succeed Ms. Antoinette Sayeh, who, has announced that she will be stepping down on September 12.

Tate was reacting to news that broke early Sunday morning across Europe that Durov was detained by French security authorities shortly after his private jet landed in the country.

Russian-born Durov, who is also a citizen of France, Saint Kitts and Nevis and the UAE, has been detained on allegations that his company is complicit in allowing criminals widespread use of its platform unchecked.

Firefighters are currently on the scene working to extinguish the blaze.

According to information reaching Old Harbour News the fire started moments ago about 7:50 pm.

In an update just now the fire has been fully extinguished Old Harbour News can report, as fire units from May Pen and Spanish Town collaborated with their Old Harbour colleagues.

The operation, it is understood, lasted roughly an hour before the situation was fully brought under control.

John Abel Baca, 48, of Whittier, then a 21-year veteran of the Inglewood Police Department and its union representative, was sentenced by United States District Judge James V. Selna. Judge Selna also ordered Baca to pay a $40,000 fine and found that Baca abused his position of trust as a police officer and that his sales extended over a lengthy period beginning in 2020.

Baca pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of distribution of cocaine.

A massive fire which started about 7:50 pm Tuesday night quickly consumed the entire facility located at the compound’s rear of sister company OJ Koolers on South Street, Old Harbour.

Within approximately an hour firefighters from Old Harbour, May Pen and Spanish Town worked assiduously to extinguish the blaze with no report of anyone being injured.

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s blaze firefighters have been busy at the scene trying to ascertain the cause, while Jamaica Bedding officials are crunching the numbers to determine the estimate of the damage.

They have been identified so far only by their aliases: ‘Pops’ and ‘Duppy Maker’, as investigators open up a probe into a gun attack in which five people were shot at with one person receiving a minor injury.

According to preliminary investigation about 8:40 pm the worshipers – all between the ages of 14 and 51 – had just left the church in ‘Africa’ when the vehicle they were in was attacked by the two alleged culprits who fled afterwards.