El huracán Melissa arrancó los techos de 120.000 estructuras cuando golpeó la semana pasada, afectando a unas 90.000 familias en la región occidental de la isla, según el último recuento de los daños causados por la tormenta.

Rhapsody of the Seas is delivering dozens of pallets of critical supplies to Falmouth, Jamaica instead of a planned port visit.

Jamaica’s peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island’s western region.

In the off-season, Facey lives in Wolcott, hometown of his wife Bianca, whom he met while at UConn. But he still gets back to Jamaica at least once a year, usually in the summer, and remains strongly rooted to the community.

P eople have been urged to donate through official channels if they want to support Hurricane-hit Jamaican communities after "several scams" have been set up. Gloucester has been twinned with the Jamaican parish of St Ann for almost 40 years and the city is now rallying together to help those impacted.

From counting packets to filling boxes, dozens of volunteers and Pinellas Park city employees teamed up to help pack food supplies for Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa has left a path of death and destruction across Jamaica – recounting the horror, Pooja, 30 revealed she was forced to barricade herself during the hurricane

A team of tree surgeons has gone to hurricane-ravaged Jamaica to clear fallen trees to ensure vital supplies get to those in need. They are part of Exeter-based DART International UK, a volunteer humanitarian response team which helping to clean up the Caribbean country after Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a category five storm last month.