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Bermuda closed down its schools and ferries ahead of the storm’s impact Thursday night

The ‘storm of a century’ has torn through the Caribbean, with Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba worst affected

Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5 landfall. What makes Melissa so alarming isn’t just its size and strength, but the speed with which it became so powerful. In a single day, it exploded from…

The Trump administration is so confident that its military campaign in the Caribbean, which includes strikes against alleged drug boats, is so popular that it doesn't need approval from Congress, according to a new report.

STORM OF THE CENTURY: Thousands of tourists remain stranded, with airports closed after the storm battered the Caribbean island before heading to Cuba, Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports

The President of the Cuban regime, Miguel Diaz-Canel, said the country has "experience from years of revolution" to endure the U.S.'s pressure campaign in the Caribbean that is largely targeting Venezuela.

“I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead,” President Donald Trump said in late October 2025 of U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea north of Venezuela.

In today’s newsletter: Meteorologists have called it ‘a dire situation unfolding in slow motion’ – what will it leave behind?

Hurricane Melissa is expected to move across the Bahamas on Wednesday evening