Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of Jamaicans were still without power, water and internet service on Thursday as the government continued to assess the ...

South Florida was spared a direct blow from Hurricane Melissa, but the massive storm still hit home for the millions of residents there who have deep roots in the Caribbean. Now, the Caribbean ...

While Jamaica's Independence Day marks the severance of the island's ties to Great Britain and its beginnings as a sovereign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view shows damaged buildings in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica, on Oct. 31, ...

Donation boxes towered over Michelle Williamson as she walked through the Global Empowerment Mission’s warehouse. She pointed to crates stacked ceiling-high with donations bound for Jamaica in the ...

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Hurricane Melissa had wind speeds of 185 mph when it made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm on Oct. 28 Dancehall star Spice spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about returning to Jamaica ...

The government of Jamaica has started reaching the areas hit the hardest by Hurricane Melissa one week following the record-breaking storm making landfall and devastating the western portion of the ...

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An aerial image of the Windsor neighborhood in St. Ann, Jamaica reveals the extent of the damage from Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s Tuesday strike. Matthew Samuda / X Thousands of Jamaicans were ...