HURRICANE MELISSA IS moving towards Bermuda today after ripping a path of destruction through the Caribbean, killing at least 20 people in Haiti, and leaving parts of Jamaica and Cuba in ruins.
Pope Leo offered prayers from the Vatican, while the United States said it’s sending response teams and supplies to affected areas. The UK government has committed £2.5 million in emergency funding for the region.
Flooding is expected to subside in the Bahamas later, although it could persist in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
In Seaford Town, Jamaica, farmer and businessman Christopher Hacker saw his restaurant and nearby banana plantations flattened.
“Everything is gone,” he said. “It will take a lot to recover from this.”
Journalists and photographers have been capturing the aftermath.
Jamaica
The damaged church of Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica AlamyAlamy
Waves splash in Kingston, Jamaica AlamyAlamy
Residents walk through Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, in the aftermath AlamyAlamy
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Damaged houses sit in Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica AlamyAlamy
A convoy carrying aid to the Jamaican town of Black River last night AlamyAlamy
Haiti
A boy moves along a flooded alleyway by a shelter for those displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti AlamyAlamy
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A man places plastic tarps over tents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti AlamyAlamy
A woman lies inside a flooded shack AlamyAlamy
Residents wade through a flooded stream in Petit-Goave, Haiti AlamyAlamy
Cuba
A man wades through floodwaters with his dog and belongings from his home flooded in Santiago de Cuba AlamyAlamy
Man shields himself from the rain with a tablecloth in Santiago de Cuba AlamyAlamy
Military police help evacuate people before the arrival of the hurricane to Canizo, a community in Santiago de Cuba AlamyAlamy
Pedestrians walk among fallen electricity poles in Santiago de Cuba AlamyAlamy