Hurricane melissa (2025)

Days after a powerful hurricane made landfall in Jamaica, thousands of residents are now homeless and trying to make sense of how they narrowly survived. The New York Times traveled to the storm’s center in Black River, and found a community destroyed — without food or clean water — where families are desperate and still … Read more

The authorities have yet to reach dozens of areas in Jamaica, raising the question of how many people really died in last week’s storm.

Roads, infrastructure and the electricity grid were battered, and over one million people, a third of the population, were directly affected by the storm the official said.

At least two people in the town died, and its historical buildings were reduced to rubble.

Island countries understood that a day like this would come.

A fast-developing storm was expected to bring “unprecedented” amounts of rain to several countries, meteorologists said.