Weak infrastructure leaves Jamaican schools devastated in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

The structural vulnerability of many Jamaican schools is linked to decades of under-resourcing, where the state has adopted ...
IEEE

Map-SemNav: Advancing Zero-Shot Continuous Vision-and-Language Navigation Through Visual Semantics and Map Integration

Abstract: This paper explores zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), enabling agents to generalize navigation to unseen data classes. Most current approaches rely on large models, but these ...
Travel Weekly

Jamaica is making big strides in recovery from Hurricane Melissa

"The visitor experience is coming back fast," said Philip Rose, deputy director of tourism for the Jamaica Tourist Board.

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings

Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million ...
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Birmingham bar to host fundraiser to help children in Jamaica affected by hurricane Melissa

The children are between the ages of 3 and 9, and many of them don’t have food to eat or school supplies to even go to school ...