{"id":79483,"date":"2025-12-11T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79483\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:15:09","slug":"hands-4-jamaica-leads-local-relief-effort-after-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79483\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands 4 Jamaica leads local relief effort after Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM<\/p>\n<p>Hands 4 Jamaica leads local relief effort after Hurricane Melissa <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Hurricane Melissa left parts of Jamaica in ruins, devastating communities across the island nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A local community in Miami has stepped up to help. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hands 4 Jamaica, a grassroots organization, is quickly pooling resources in response to the widespread destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The group is calling on some of the culture\u2019s most prominent figures, including media multi-hyphenate Mona Scott-Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It has also gained support from one of hip-hop\u2019s most influential artists, Busta Rhymes, who has deep personal ties to the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On its first trip to Jamaica, the organization plans to deliver tons of aid to residents affected by the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While Hurricane Melissa has passed, the journey to rebuild will be long. Still, the spirit of Jamaica remains resilient.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM Hands 4 Jamaica leads local relief effort after Hurricane Melissa MIAMI \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-79483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79483","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=79483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}