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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.
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.
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.
Lancelot Radcliffe was in tears near the Sangster International Airport, which remained closed on Thursday, east of Montego Bay, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa.
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.
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 was still passing through Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon when videos started to show its destructive force.
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.
The hospitality industry, a cornerstone of the Jamaican economy, braced for Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s powerful hit.
Local 10 News reporter Aaron Maybin is in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm.