The Latest Breaking News from Jamaica

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…

A British woman living in Jamaica has told of her terror as Hurricane Melissa struck.

Most intense tropical cyclone to hit Jamaica in nearly two centuries leaves trail of devastation in its wake

Exclusive: Boeing 787 jets are on their way from Birmingham and Manchester to a nearby island for quick airlift deployment

UK experts have also been deployed to the region to assist with the disaster response and recovery.

Flow partners with Starlink to help Hurricane Melissa victims in Jamaica. The free internet service will last until the end of November.

Streets were submerged in Kingston on Tuesday after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as the most powerful storm to strike the island since records began 174 years ago.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record

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

Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica with 185 mph winds as a historic Category 5 storm, before targeting Cuba, the southeast Bahamas, and Bermuda, prompting widespread evacuations and international emergency response.

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