The Latest Breaking News from Jamaica

Hannah Grubbs’s TikTok videos on the category 5 storm has received significant backlash

Travellers to Jamaica say neither government nor airlines raised concerns before the storm forced them into lockdown

Jamaica’s government ordered evacuations from high risk areas and shut down the country’s airports as the Category 5 storm approached on Tuesday.

As many as 8,000 British citizens are in Jamaica, with people ordered to stay inside to avoid the world’s strongest storm of the year so far.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed Hurricane Melissa, which has made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, is helping defend the Caribbean from the pressure campaign being carried out by the Trump administration against the Venezuelan regime

Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families were trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica

Jamaican officials confirmed 3 storm-related deaths on Monday evening, before the hurricane made landfall.

Watch a live view of Hurricane Melissa making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday (28 October).

All of Caribbean islands airports shut as world’s strongest storm of year so far set to make landfall