{"id":210354,"date":"2026-04-26T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:36:13","slug":"jamaican-pm-andrew-holness-on-impact-of-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210354\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican PM Andrew Holness on impact of Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills talks to\u00a0Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness about the impact of Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p>He says that even with a disaster fund in place, the storm caused significant damage and disruption to the country\u2019s GDP, but that recovery is progressing steadily, with schools, hospitals and utilities almost completely restored.<\/p>\n<p>Holness adds that\u00a0work remains to restore homes and roofs, and to redevelop the island\u2019s aging infrastructure overall.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills talks to\u00a0Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness about the impact of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,56,63,65,64,200],"class_list":["post-210354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-perez","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}