The Latest Breaking News from Melissa

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

Richard Solomon, mayor of Black River, describes terror of 16ft storm surges and hours of fierce winds when storm hit, as focus now moves to aid and rescue efforts

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

There's a hole there now.

Up to 8,000 British citizens on Caribbean island as ‘storm of the century’ causes catastrophic winds and flash flooding

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…

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

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

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