After the Storm: Unity in Action with Hurricane Melissa
Kerwin here — real talk. When a monster like Hurricane Melissa slams into a sister island like Jamaica, you don’t get to sit around and wait for someone else to fix things. You step up . You show up . You lift together . What happened Melissa came in hard. As one of the strongest hurricanes on record, she tore across Jamaica’s landscape — ripped off roofs, knocked out power for hundreds of thousands, turned towns into shock zones. Homes that once buzzed now sit hollow. Lives disrupted. Futures shaken. And I remember — strong flashback to when Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria carved chaos into my own time in Turks and Caicos Islands 2017. The winds didn’t discriminate, but what came after — the unity, the rebuilding, the refusal to let the storm define us — that was the difference. Unity is our power Here’s the truth: storms may smash our walls, but they also reveal our hearts. I see communities in Jamaica doing exactly what they do when times get real: neighbours checking on...