{"id":234423,"date":"2025-10-30T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234423\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:56:11","slug":"jamaican-officials-assess-total-devastation-as-hurricane-melissa-approaches-bermuda-follow-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234423\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican officials assess &#8216;total devastation&#8217; as Hurricane Melissa approaches Bermuda &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family sleep in flooded home with no roofpublished at 17:09 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:09 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/941b0d1c-5141-4731-a6c5-1ad8f6c2a8e1.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Gabriela Pomeroy<br \/>Live reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kabien Watson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/015e4047-ef94-4efc-b382-062ff6669a7a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1255\" height=\"705\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Kabien Watson<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;ve been speaking to Kabien Watson, who runs a beauty business in the Santa Cruz area of St Elizabeth, which has been devastated by Hurricane Melissa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kabien was at home with her young children when the roof was ripped off their house. It was &#8220;extremely traumatic,&#8221; she tells me. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But now she is staying in her flooded house, without a roof, because she feels the public shelter is &#8220;too dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She tells me: &#8220;We are still at home now. Even though our house is flooded and has no roof. The shelters are not safe for my kids. The beds are too close to random men. There aren&#8217;t separate areas for kids, men, women and adults.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a reminder, we just heard from the country&#8217;s local government minister who says the shelters, which currently house around 13,000 people, will remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family sleep in flooded home with no roofpublished at 17:09 GMT 17:09 GMT Gabriela PomeroyLive reporter Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-234423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}