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Strongest hurricane in 174 years makes landfall in Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday morning as a ferocious Category 5 storm, becoming the most powerful system ever to strike the island in 174 years of recordkeeping. The eye of the hurricane made landfall near St. Elizabeth Parish on the southern coast, bringing catastrophic winds, torrential rain, and life-threatening storm surges before beginning its projected path across the island toward St. Ann Parish in the north.
The storm had already proven deadly across the Caribbean, blamed for at least seven deaths—three in Jamaica, three in Haiti, and one in the Dominican Republic—while another person remains missing. Even before landfall, landslides, uprooted trees, and widespread blackouts had been reported, with emergency officials warning that the full scope of destruction may take days to assess.
Witness the raw power of nature as a U.S. Air Force pilot navigates through the eye wall of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds sweeping across Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The accompanying image captures the storm's mesmerizing eye, where life… pic.twitter.com/JtKMOyJ4ku
— SanaviNet (@Sanavi1009) October 28, 2025
According to the Associated Press, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the government had done all it could to prepare but admitted the storm’s intensity would test Jamaica’s limits. “There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,” Holness said. “The question now is the speed of recovery. That’s the challenge.”
Forecasters warned of storm surges up to 13 feet along Jamaica’s southern coast, threatening homes, hospitals, and infrastructure. Health Minister Christopher Tufton said some patients were moved to upper floors as a precaution. “We hope that will suffice for any surge that will take place,” Tufton told reporters.
🚨 BREAKING: HOSPITALS DESTROYED IN JAMAICA 🚨
Medical facilities in Black River, Jamaica have reportedly been destroyed, according to a Jamaican Senator speaking to NBC.
Amid Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic landfall, emergency services are overwhelmed, and access to care is… pic.twitter.com/FwJsmfMvqr— Dj Steven King (@djstevenking1) October 28, 2025
Matthew Samuda, Jamaica’s Minister of Water, Environment, and Climate Change, called the situation “frightening,” noting that roughly 70 percent of the country’s population lives within three miles of the sea. Low-lying communities such as Kingston, Old Harbour Bay, Rocky Point, and St. Elizabeth were expected to bear the brunt of the flooding.
“We hope we have done enough in terms of preparation,” Samuda said in an interview with the BBC, urging residents to seek shelter and pleading with Jamaicans abroad to call loved ones “before it’s too late.” Still, officials acknowledged that many have refused to leave their homes, choosing to guard their property instead.
As Melissa churns across the island, authorities warn that the coming hours will be critical. The storm’s powerful winds and deluge threaten to cut off entire communities, with the recovery effort expected to be long and grueling once skies finally clear.
From LifeSiteNews
A briefing note showed Canadian aid has gone to ‘key foreign policy priorities in China, including human rights, gender equality, sustainable development, and climate change.’
A federal briefing note disclosed that well over $100 million has been provided to the Communist Chinese government in so-called “foreign aid” to promote “sustainable development” that includes woke ideology such as gender equality.
As reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, a recent briefing note titled Assistance to China from May for the Minister of International Development showed $109 million has gone to “key foreign policy priorities in China, including human rights, gender equality, sustainable development, and climate change” since 2015 and $645 million since 2003.
The briefing note asked directly if funding was “going to the Government of China.”
In reply, the briefing note stated, “Canada has not provided direct bilateral assistance to Chinese state authorities since 2013, though it continues to provide small amounts of funding to international partners and non-state partners on the ground.”
Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015 and increased relations with the Communist Chinese regime. This trend under the Liberal Party government has continued with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
During a 2025 federal election campaign debate, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre called out Carney for his ties to Communist China.
Conservative MP Andrew Scheer has consistently called out any money at all going to China, saying, “I don’t believe Canadian taxpayers should be sending any money to China.”
“We’re talking about a Communist dictatorial government that abuses human rights, quashes freedoms, violates rights of its citizens, and has a very aggressive foreign policy throughout the region,” he noted.
Scheer added that he has been calling on the Carney Liberals to “stand up for themselves, stand up for Canadians, stop being bullied and pushed around on the world stage, especially by China.”
Most of the money in foreign aid was spent through globalist-backed agencies such as the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program. Some 39 percent of the money was said to have gone straight to Chinese recipients, but no projects were itemized.
Other countries have received millions of dollars in foreign aid, with $2.1 billion going to Ukraine, $195 million to Ethiopia, $172 million to Haiti, and $151 million to the West Bank and Gaza last year.
Foreign aid to all nations totaled $12.3 billion.
LifeSiteNews recently reported that the Canadian Liberal government gave millions in aid to Chinese universities.
China has been accused of direct election meddling in Canada, as reported by LifeSiteNews.
LifeSiteNews also reported that a new exposé by investigative journalist Sam Cooper has claimed there is compelling evidence that Carney and Trudeau are/were strongly influenced by an “elite network” of foreign actors, including those with ties to China and the World Economic Forum.
In a 91-page report released Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee accused Joe Biden’s inner circle of executing and concealing presidential actions without his knowledge, declaring that any orders signed through the autopen were “null and void.” The Republican-led panel, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), said it uncovered evidence that senior aides used the mechanical signature device to authorize pardons, commutations, and executive directives while Biden’s mental and physical decline worsened — all to preserve “the illusion of presidential authority.”
Joe Biden WAS NOT running the show.
Our new report EXPOSES how Biden's decline was real and his aides covered it up.
Aides didn't even know WHO was operating the autopen to sign official documents and pardons.
Watch the truth they tried to bury 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/WkQsy5k6uC
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 28, 2025
“The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history,” the report stated. “As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, his inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover up his condition, and took unauthorized executive actions that are now invalid.” The committee urged the Justice Department to launch a full criminal investigation into what it called a “cover-up of historic proportions,” naming several aides who invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned about their roles. It also demanded the D.C. Board of Medicine investigate Biden’s physician for allegedly hiding his true medical state.
According to the report, internal emails and documentation revealed a “haphazard process” surrounding clemency and other executive actions, with no reliable record confirming Biden’s personal approval. Comer said the findings raise profound constitutional concerns. “If unelected aides were using the autopen to execute presidential powers without Joe Biden’s knowledge or consent, that is an assault on the Constitution itself,” he said.
The White House has not yet responded.
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