adminWhen Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica on October 28 as a near–Category 5 monster it didn’t just break windows — it broke a country’s backbone. Bridges, roofs, and whole neighborhoods were ripped apart by winds and storm surge, and the aftermath looks apocalyptic in places that had no business seeing this level of destruction. The scale of the storm proves once again that nature respects no politics, only preparedness — and Jamaica is now paying the price.
Officials and relief agencies on the ground report hospitals damaged, tens of thousands without power, and whole communities cut off by landslides and floodwaters. PAHO and local authorities have warned that health services are severely compromised in the hardest-hit parishes, leaving people vulnerable to waterborne disease and prolonged suffering. This isn’t a theoretical disaster — it’s a humanitarian emergency with immediate medical and logistical needs.
What should alarm every patriotic American is that when private, faith-based relief groups move in, they find yawning gaps that bureaucracies and international agencies haven’t closed. Glenn Beck’s Mercury One and partners like Jack Brewer’s foundation went to work on the ground and returned with heartbreaking reports of towns “unrecognizable” and residents still waiting for basic help. That kind of eyewitness account matters because it shows the difference between press conferences and actual boots-on-the-ground rescue and relief.
Jack Brewer’s testimony is particularly damning: he described villages where “no one has come,” people washing clothes in salt water, and crews still finding bodies days after the storm. Those are details that should shame any complacent official who thinks aid can be dispensed with talking points and photo ops. When faith-based Americans and small nonprofits are the ones supplying tents, water and cadaver dogs, we’re forced to confront uncomfortable truths about whose priority these tragedies become.
To their credit, multilateral agencies have started to allocate funds and coordinate assistance, but the pace is painfully slow compared with the urgency on the ground. The UN and regional partners have pledged help and emergency funds, yet roads remain impassable and hospitals still need support — proof that top-down aid is too often tangled in red tape while people in need sit exposed. In times like these the free-hearted generosity of Americans and the nimbleness of private charities do more good, faster, than waiting for government ministries to catch up.
This is a moment for conservative action: not virtue-signaling, but real giving, real organizing, and real muscle from faith-based groups that know how to move. We should praise and support organizations already on the ground, demand accountability from governments and international bureaucracies, and keep the spotlight on ordinary Jamaicans who deserve better than being forgotten. If the mainstream media sleeps on this story, conservatives must not — we will be the ones to stand with our neighbors when the cameras leave.
America is strongest when its people answer the call, not when we outsource compassion to distant committees. Send help through trusted organizations, support Christian and conservative relief efforts, and don’t let this disaster drift off the front pages until every family has shelter and power restored. Stand up, give, and make sure the folks in Jamaica know that the American spirit still means something when a nation goes to pieces and needs friends.
