{"id":31742,"date":"2025-11-03T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:11:08","slug":"more-jamaicans-arrive-at-miami-international-airport-5-days-after-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31742\/","title":{"rendered":"More Jamaicans arrive at Miami International Airport 5 days after Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM<\/p>\n<p>Commercial passenger flights arrive at MIA from Jamaica  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Janice Dormar, Roosevelt Anderson, and Kemar Himes arrived on Monday at Miami International Airport from Jamaica. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They were able to fly about six days after Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane near New Hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are without light, water, anything. We don\u2019t have internet service,\u201d said Dormar, who was in the Portland parish on the northeast coast of Jamaica. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hurricane Melissa left a path of destruction in the island\u2019s western parishes and killed at least 19 people. Himes said Jamaicans were in survival mode. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really bad,\u201d Himes said. \u201cPersons are without homes right now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay reopened for disaster relief flights first and later for commercial passenger flights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anderson said he had a flight on Thursday that was delayed. Himes said he booked a flight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBased on just when I booked my ticket, the price I paid for it, and the price it is now, the prices were just crazy, crazy,\u201d Himes said. \u201cLike, a regular person wouldn\u2019t be able to afford those flights right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. State Department issued a<a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/jamaica-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/jamaica-travel-advisory.html\"> Level 3 travel advisory<\/a> warning the public to \u201creconsider travel\u201d to Jamaica. The U.S. Embassy in Kingston had resumed operations. Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston was also fully operational. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">INTERACTIVE MAP<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More on the hurricane\u2019s aftermath<\/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=\"Trent Kelly\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/gmg\/379f21d1-d3cb-436b-9d60-fd7b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Trent Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Trent Kelly is an award-winning multimedia journalist who joined the Local 10 News team in June 2018. Trent is no stranger to Florida. Born in Tampa, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he graduated with honors from the UF College of Journalism and Communications.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM Updated:\u00a0November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM Commercial passenger flights arrive at MIA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-31742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","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=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}