Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 5 as evacuations ordered in Jamaica’s capital

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a powerful category 5 hurricane on Monday, threatening days of catastrophic winds and rain in the northern Caribbean, while Jamaica’s government ordered mandatory evacuations for vulnerable areas across the...

CAL outlines flights for T&T students in Jamaica

Caribbean Air­lines says it was con­tact­ed on Oc­to­ber 23 by the Trinidad and To­ba­go High Com­mis­sion in Ja­maica and the Min­istry of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing re­gard­ing pos­si­ble flight arrange­ments for Trinidad and...

Where in the Caribbean is Melissa located?

The National Hurricane Center (NHC), in conjunction with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center, issued an update on tropical weather conditions this Saturday, highlighting that Hurricane Melissa remains active in the Caribbean Sea, located...

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis Evacuates Students from Jamaica Ahead of Hurricane Melissa

Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 25, 2025 — The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, through the Prime Minister’s Office has successfully coordinated the evacuation of St. Kitts and Nevis nationals studying in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa continues to...

Hurricane Melissa sees extreme rapid intensification as Jamaica braces for extensive infrastructural damage

Time has essentially run out for millions of people in Jamaica to prepare for deadly Hurricane Melissa’s onslaught as the monster storm undergoes "extreme rapid intensification" ahead of its likely catastrophic landfall in the coming days....

Hurricane Melissa is expected to strengthen to Category 5 before hitting Jamaica

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a major hurricane and may reach Category 5 status before making landfall in Jamaica. Melissa went through rapid intensification yesterday. This means that within a span of 24 hours, it went...

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Category 4 Melissa takes aim at Jamaica, Haiti

Photo: People wade through a street flooded by rains caused by Tropical Storm Melissa in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez) Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with...

Jamaica Braces As Rapidly Intensifying Hurricane Melissa Lumbers Toward Island

Tropical Storm Melissa has become a hurricane and is expected to strengthen into at least Category 4 intensity, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Saturday. The rapidly intensifying storm is expected to wreak havoc across the Caribbean...

Hurricane Melissa intensifies, threatens catastrophic flooding in Jamaica, Haiti

Hurricane Melissa rapidly strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane as it unleashed torrential rain in the northern Caribbean and threatened catastrophic flooding and landslides in Jamaica and southern Haiti. US forecasters warned that the...

New Flights to Jamaica announced by Caribbean Airlines

Several Caribbean Airlines flights, including routes between Kingston, Fort Lauderdale, and Toronto, were canceled or rescheduled due to the impact of Tropical Storm Melissa. Caribbean Airlines has announced its Jamaica flight schedule for Sunday...

Major Hurricane Melissa unleashing torrents on Caribbean, forecast to become Cat 5

Hurricane Melissa on Sunday intensified into a Category 4 storm dropping torrents of “catastrophic” rain across the Caribbean with the National Hurricane Center now forecasting it to become a Category 5 hurricane before it makes landfall on...

Hurricane Melissa forecast to explode into Category 5 storm over Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to be at Category 5 strength in the Caribbean within 24 hours as it heads for a Jamaica landfall — the first of what could be multiple landfalls for the catastrophic storm, forecasters said. The storm, which initially...

40 Antiguan Students Sheltered at Pegasus Hotel as Hurricane Melissa Nears Jamaica

Antiguan Students Sheltered at Pegasus Hotel as Hurricane Melissa Nears Jamaica More than 40 Antiguan and Barbudan students studying in Jamaica have been relocated to the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel as Hurricane Melissa strengthens and threatens to...

Hurricane Melissa Intensifies to Category 4, Threatening Jamaica and Eastern Cuba with Flooding

Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a Category 4 storm, unleashing torrential rains and deadly flooding across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and is now bearing down on Jamaica and eastern Cuba as Caribbean nations brace for widespread...

Jamaica braces as tropical storm Melissa strengthens

Tropical storm Melissa has strengthened into a hurricane and is expected to become a major hurricane by the end of the weekend, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said yesterday. The rapidly intensifying storm is expected to wreak havoc across...

Jamaica braces as rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa creeps

[Source: Reuters] Tropical Storm Melissa has become a hurricane and is expected to strengthen into at least Category 4 intensity, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The rapidly intensifying storm is expected to wreak havoc across the...

Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa

Kingston's waterfront in Jamaica was empty on Saturday, with the first bands of rain from Hurricane Melissa hitting the island. But in some parts of the city, they are still racing to prepare for the storm. Jason Allen reports.

NEW YORK’S CARIBBEAN CITY: INSIDE THE ROUGHLY 2 MILLION CARIBBEAN-ORIGIN NEW YORKERS

Who they are, where they live, and how the numbers add up in the most Caribbean city in the United States New York City isn’t just a global capital; it’s the de-facto capital of the Caribbean diaspora. Using the most recent public datasets (2020...

With “Increasingly Dire” Forecast, Hurricane Melissa Intensifies, Putting the Caribbean on Alert

By Lara Cooper Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category Three storm on Saturday, and the slow-moving system has already inundated the region with rainfall ahead of its projected path tracking over or near Jamaica on Monday. The storm could...