{"id":28024,"date":"2025-10-31T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:16:08","slug":"broward-county-leaders-urge-support-for-hurricane-melissa-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28024\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward County leaders urge support for Hurricane Melissa relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761920167_777_B7FPS57VLOEYCKUHSB2WOAZTA4.jpg\"  width=\"4991\" height=\"2807\"\/>Extreme Weather Hurricane Melissa Relief Donated emergency supplies for Jamaica sit in the lobby at the Miramar Police Department Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, in Miramar, Fla. (AP Photo\/Marta Lavandier) (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) (Marta Lavandier\/AP) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Broward County Commissioner Hazelle P. Rogers is holding a press conference Friday to encourage residents to support relief efforts for Hurricane Melissa, which caused widespread damage in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Central Broward Park &amp; Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill. Rogers, a native of Jamaica, will be joined by a coalition of elected officials and community leaders with ties to the Caribbean. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The press conference will spotlight Broward County\u2019s coordinated donation drive and encourage residents to contribute essential supplies at designated drop-off locations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rogers is expected to emphasize the role of the Caribbean diaspora and the power of community action in helping Jamaica recover and rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 viewers can watch the press conference here: <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM Updated:\u00a0October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandExtreme Weather Hurricane Melissa Relief Donated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-28024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}