Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds early Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 28, and is forecast to have catastrophic impacts on islands in the northern C...

Hurricane Melissa slammed into the southern coast of eastern Cuba on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean is...

"Today will be very difficult for tens of thousands, if not millions of people in Jamaica," IFRC's Necephor Mghendi said via video link from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.