{"id":110078,"date":"2025-10-31T04:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110078\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:57:07","slug":"assessing-hurricane-melissa-damage-in-black-river-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110078\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Hurricane Melissa damage in Black River, Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Jamaica&#8217;s prime minister Andrew Holness has described the town of Black River as the country&#8217;s &#8220;ground zero&#8221; of damage from Hurricane Melissa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The port on the southwest of the island nation bore the full force of 185 mph (295km\/h) winds as the storm made landfall on Tuesday. Officials said at least 19 people had died in Jamaica as a result of the hurricane, but warned search and rescue efforts were ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Nick Beake has been looking at footage and photos that have emerged so far of damage to this community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Video by Meiying Wu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamaica&#8217;s prime minister Andrew Holness has described the town of Black River as the country&#8217;s &#8220;ground zero&#8221; of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-110078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}