KINGSTON, Jamaica—Up to 1,500 tourism workers who suffered loss as a result of Hurricane Melissa have benefitted from the Government’s $2 billion Tourism Housing Assistance Recovery Programme (THARP). The fund was established in December 2025 to help tourism workers stabilise livelihoods and recover after Hurricane Melissa devastated southwestern parishes last October. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett said the THARP, which is funded through the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), provided non-repayable $100,000 grants and critical building materials for tourism workers whose homes were damaged or destroyed.