Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica on Tuesday, prompting the prime minister to declare the country a disaster area, after the storm made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, on...

More images are emerging of the damage wrought by Hurricane Melissa on Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa, which is expected to make landfall early on Tuesday, has already been blamed for three "storm-related deaths" on the Caribbean island, as well as four deaths in Haiti and the Domin...

Flooding from Hurricane Melissa killed 25 people in Haiti after the storm caused extensive damage in Jamaica, submerging entire communities underwater and destroying homes across the Caribbean island.

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A British holidaymaker, Toby Lindley-Smith, has described an "undercurrent of panic" on the island, particularly in Ocho Rios.

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's "Hurricane Hunters" squadron flew into Hurricane Melissa to gather data for National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Melissa unleashed devastation in Jamaica as the strongest storm on record ever to hit the Caribbean island nation, and roared later today into eastern Cuba, smashing the city of Santiago an...

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) projected that 1.5mn people could be affected in Jamaica alone, more than half the country’s 2.8mn population.