{"id":23449,"date":"2026-01-14T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/23449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:44:08","slug":"how-the-ghana-armed-forces-is-supporting-the-rebuilding-of-homes-following-hurricane-destruction-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/23449\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Ghana Armed Forces is supporting the rebuilding of homes following hurricane destruction in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jamaica5.jpg\" alt=\"How the Ghana Armed Forces is supporting the rebuilding of homes following hurricane destruction in Jamaica \" width=\"653\" height=\"435\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Featured<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGraphic Online\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tJan &#8211; 14 &#8211; 2026 , 18:10\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t2 minutes read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian Engineering Reconstruction team of the Ghana Armed Forces and the 1 Engineering Regiment of the Jamaican Defence Force (JDF) have recorded significant progress in rebuilding homes in Black River and Saint Elizabeth communities following the recent Hurricane that struck Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>Following the disaster which occurred in October 2025, the government deployed 54 personnel from the Ghana Armed Forces\u2018 14 Engineer Brigade, Engineer Contingent 1 to Jamaica to support national rebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jamaica4.jpg\" width=\"100%\" class=\"float-none lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Communities in these areas in Jamaica were severely hit by the Hurricane Melissa and are being steadily rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Ghana\u2019s humanitarian commitment, Ghana\u2019s reconstruction team is working alongside international partners including the Jamaican Defence Force to rebuild homes and support livelihood of victims.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jamaica3.jpg\" width=\"100%\" class=\"float-none lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The mission reflects solidarity, service and shared resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the Ghanaian Engineering Reconstruction team, Colonel Emmanuel Assiah met with Foreign Minister for Jamaica, Camina Johnson Smith upon the team\u2019s arrival in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jamaica2.jpg\" width=\"100%\" class=\"float-none lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Camina Johnson Smith expressed her appreciation to the troops who have been deployed to Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>Kisha Webb, a resident of Black River and a victim of the Hurricane disaster expressed gratitude for the work done so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate everything that you have done here and all the work men work so nice and I just want to thank the Jamaican Defence Force for helping us. I hope you all continue the good work,\u201d she said.Kenesha Dawkins and Tashna Evans, residents of Saint Elizabeth also thanked both governments for the support extend in rebuilding their homes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jamaica1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" class=\"float-none lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featured Graphic Online Jan &#8211; 14 &#8211; 2026 , 18:10 2 minutes read Ghanaian Engineering Reconstruction team of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79],"class_list":{"0":"post-23449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-ghana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}