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Hurricane Melissa left parts of Jamaica in ruins, devastating communities across the island nation.
On Friday, performers came together to send more relief to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island nation.
The Global Empowerment Mission is sending another shipment of aid to Jamaica on Monday as the island continues to recover from Hurricane Melissa.
After Hurricane Melissa ravaged Jamaica, the powerful storm hammered the southern parts of Haiti.
Hundreds gathered at Volunteer Park on Sunday for the Island SPACE Rum Cake and Black Cake Festival, a celebration of Caribbean culture that doubled as a relief effort for Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa.
Tens of thousands of pounds of food, water and medical supplies from South Florida arrived in Kingston, Jamaica on Monday, part of a relief effort to support communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa.
A relief flight carrying tens of thousands of pounds of medical supplies and other aid departed Miami International Airport on Monday, part of a growing effort across South Florida to assist Jamaica as the island recovers from Hurricane Melissa, a devastating Category 5 hurricane.
The Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival returns to Miramar this weekend, celebrating Caribbean culture with food, music and community — and this year, organizers say the event carries a deeper purpose as Jamaica continues to recover from Hurricane Melissa.
Days after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, aid groups are still struggling to reach some of the island’s hardest hit areas, including Trelawny Parish, where damage to roads and infrastructure continues to slow relief efforts.
Jamaica’s Trelawny Parish, east of Montego Bay, is one of the island’s hardest hit but least assessed areas.
Leniecia “Len” Ricketts and Marva Cross returned to work at a family home in Jamaica about six days after Hurricane Melissa destroyed their homes in the parishes of St. James and St. Elizabeth.
Project DYNAMO has already had multiple relief flights to Montego Bay, Jamaica, to help those affected by Hurricane Melissa, and a Local 10 News crew is joined them Monday on their latest relief trip.
As Jamaica’s airports have been reopening following Hurricane Melissa, those with Jamaican ties are making their way back to Miami.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the safe evacuation of 28 Floridians from Jamaica following the devastation of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.
As planes continue to land and relief supplies pour into Jamaica, airport ramp attendant Andres Brumley is working through his worry — not knowing if his family back home survived the storm.
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.
Broward County Commissioner Hazelle P. Rogers held a press conference Friday to encourage residents to support relief efforts for Hurricane Melissa, which caused widespread damage in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.
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.
Planes packed with food, water, and emergency supplies are taking off from Miami to help storm-ravaged communities in Jamaica.
Lancelot Radcliffe was in tears near the Sangster International Airport, which remained closed on Thursday, east of Montego Bay, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa.
After days of delays and cancelations, flights to the hard hit island of Jamaica are slowly starting to resume from South Florida following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.
The Jamaican national anthem echoed through the city hall lawn in Miramar on Thursday morning.
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.
Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was set to reopen to relief flights on Thursday, but not to commercial flights yet, so many tourists and Jamaicans were disappointed to have to turn back.
Lancelot Radcliffe was in tears near the Sangster International Airport, which remained closed on Thursday, east of Montego Bay, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa.
Hurricane Melissa cut through the southeast Bahamas Wednesday and is expected to pass just west of Bermuda by late Thursday.
Hurricane Melissa slammed into eastern Cuba on Wednesday, leaving behind widespread flooding, power outages and heavy damage — and sparking concern among Cuban Americans in South Florida.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday in eastern Cuba.
A drone recorded video of destruction on Wednesday in southwestern Jamaica’s St. Elizabeth parish.
As the cleanup started on Wednesday in southwest Jamaica, fallen trees and debris blocked roads in Montego Bay. Hotels and homes were damaged. Bus stops destroyed.
Hurricane Melissa, which devastated western Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded, briefly restrengthened between Jamaica and Cuba late Tuesday before making a second landfall shortly after 3 a.m. ET Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane about 40 miles west of Santiago de Cuba – the country’s second most populous city – in eastern Cuba.
The Greater Good Charities, a Seattle-based nonprofit with a location in Wilton Manors, was ready to help Jamaicans after Hurricane Melissa.
Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica’s local government minister, said on Wednesday morning that rescuers were helping people who were trapped on roofs after Hurricane Melissa caused flooding.
Hurricane Melissa was making its way across Cuba on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record.
Flooding from Hurricane Melissa killed 25 people in Haiti while the storm still churned across Cuba on Wednesday after leaving Jamaica with widespread damage and power outages, officials say.
Hurricane Melissa’s destructive path through Jamaica has left residents and visitors in South Florida anxiously checking on loved ones back home.
From his Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant in Margate, Karl Gordon was hungry for updates from Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa made landfall at about 1 p.m. Tuesday in New Hope.
Hurricane Melissa was still passing through Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon when videos started to show its destructive force.
The Miami Heat, along with the Micky & Madeleine Arison Family Foundation and Carnival Corporation, announced a $1 million donation to Direct Relief to help recovery efforts in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa.
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa set a collision course early Tuesday with Jamaica and made landfall at New Hope, Jamaica, on the island country’s southwest coast at peak strength around noontime local on Tuesday.
Hurricane Melissa turned tourists’ relaxing Caribbean getaway into a nightmare where the sound of the wind reminded them of scary “ghost stories” on Tuesday in Jamaica.
The hospitality industry, a cornerstone of the Jamaican economy, braced for Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s powerful hit.
Hurricane Melissa will make landfall Tuesday morning in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, and organizations across South Florida are already collecting donations to help those who are being impacted.
Local 10 News reporter Aaron Maybin is in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm.
Hurricane Melissa intensified Tuesday before making landfall in Jamaica, where officials and residents braced for catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides from the Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned Monday that Hurricane Melissa could cause catastrophic flash flooding and numerous landslides in parts of Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola.
Miramar and Lauderhill officials announced efforts to help Jamaicans who are preparing to deal with Hurricane Melissa’s fury.
Juici Patties, a Jamaican restaurant chain with dozens of locations, is accepting disaster relief donations to be delivered to the Caribbean island after Hurricane Melissa.
Food For The Poor, a Christian nonprofit organization based in Coconut Creek, was accepting donations on Monday for Jamaicans dealing with Hurricane Melissa.
Hurricane Melissa put on a rare show overnight, tipping the scales as a Category 5 hurricane by the predawn hours Monday while drifting only about 100 miles south of Jamaica over the deep, warm waters of the central Caribbean.
Hurricane Melissa is now a massive Category 5 storm as it nears Jamaica, where it will bring life-threatening storm surge.
