Government says it has done all it can to prepare for strongest hurricane in country since records began
Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, where sheltering residents braced themselves against ferocious winds, heavy flood waters and landslides from the category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.
Videos and photographs published by local newspapers painted a devastating portrait of the impact: roads transformed into raging rivers, downed power lines and trees, and roofs ripped off buildings by the power of the winds. “Hurricane Melissa is wreaking absolute havoc on Jamaica’s breadbasket parish,” the Jamaica Observer reported from St Elizabeth in the south-west of the island.