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The non-profit organisation that advocates the welfare of senior citizens says it has netted $800,000 from a fund-raising venture and is using the money to provide relief aid to elderly victims of Hurricane Melissa in Westmoreland and St Elizabeth. Jean Lowrie-Chin, founder and executive chair of the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP), made the announcement Friday at the organisation’s annual Living Legacy Awards ceremony at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. L

Principal of Accompong Primary and Infant School Garfield Rowe is considering hosting some classes under tents and implementing a rotation system as he tries to get a phased resumption of learning in the major maroon settlement. “We could have grades four to six on some days and grades one to three on other days. I want to prevent learning loss as best as possible,” Rowe told the Online News when a news team made it into the deep-rural community on Wednesday. According to Row

Jamaica’s Blue Mountain coffee industry, pinned under the merciless grip of inclement weather for the past four years, has been dealt a punishing blow by Hurricane Melissa estimated at losses of $1 billion, according to sector expert Norman Grant. “We had estimated that the crop would be about 270,000 boxes of coffee. So we are estimating that approximately 100,000 boxes were lost, because what happened is that some of the trees were also damaged,” Grant, chairman of Jamaica