{"id":106246,"date":"2025-10-30T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/106246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:56:09","slug":"jamaican-officials-assess-total-devastation-as-hurricane-melissa-approaches-bermuda-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/106246\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican officials assess &#8216;total devastation&#8217; as Hurricane Melissa approaches Bermuda &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica surveys damage as airports reopen after devastation of Melissapublished at 15:35 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:35 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a4796371-6167-40e3-834e-8ac341bfc5d6.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Sakshi Venkatraman<br \/>Reporting from New York<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Devastation in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ce32cc77-0df6-45d7-8387-4b3324ddf60f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1013\" height=\"570\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hurricane Melissa has continued its devastating sweep across the Caribbean, destroying homes, flooding neighbourhoods and leaving dozens dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, the island nation was hit by a category five storm &#8211; one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever strike the region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least five people have been confirmed dead in Jamaica and more than 20 are dead in Haiti, where Melissa passed near as a category two storm, lashing the country with rain and taking out already weakened infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Jamaica, people remain stranded on roofs and without power. Prime Minister Andrew Holness noted the &#8220;total devastation&#8221; across the island nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A team of BBC reporters is currently en route for Kingston, where the airport has now resumed operations after being shuttered for several days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow along as we look around the island and bring you accounts of what&#8217;s happened there first-hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamaica surveys damage as airports reopen after devastation of Melissapublished at 15:35 GMT 15:35 GMT Sakshi VenkatramanReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-106246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}