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Melissa’s 10-day run as a tropical cyclone – culminating in a catastrophic Category 5 strike on western Jamaica Tuesday – will end Friday as it transitions into a powerful non-tropical storm, clipping Atlantic Canada’s southern Avalon Peninsula tonight before heading swiftly out to sea.
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Hurricane Melissa was racing away from Bermuda early Friday after leaving a trail of destruction across Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, where the storm killed dozens, flooded towns and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
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After weakening to a Category 1 hurricane after its passage across the rugged terrain of eastern Cuba, by Wednesday afternoon Melissa was recovering over the waters around the speckled islands of the southeastern Bahamas.
Adrian Lee is among the volunteers with connections to Jamaica who were hard at work at the Global Empowerment Mission’s headquarters on Monday in Doral ahead of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s hit.
During the United Nations General Assembly, humanitarian crises around the globe took center stage. From Gaza, Ukraine, to Sudan, but one nation in crisis needing more support than ever: Haiti.
The voyage out of PortMiami to deliver backpacks, pens, and notebooks to students in Haiti isn’t easy, but Samuel Darguin said it’s worth it because there are children who have to go through great lengths to get an education.
Haiti remains gripped by political and social unrest — with no president, no functioning parliament, and no elections scheduled. What fills the vacuum, many say, is gang violence and corruption.
The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office reported that a 44-year-old U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee from Haiti died of natural causes.
Federal law enforcement announced the arrest of a Haitian man residing in the United States for crimes impacting the island nation.