{"id":257336,"date":"2025-10-28T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:17:09","slug":"category-5-storm-makes-landfall-in-jamaica-with-catastrophic-floods-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257336\/","title":{"rendered":"Category 5 storm makes landfall in Jamaica with catastrophic floods, wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"nn\">United Nations spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said today that aid has been readied for Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti to help those affected by Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"nq\">Staff members from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will be deployed to Cuba and Jamaica this week as conditions allow,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.un.org\/en\/2025\/db251027.doc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said Dujarric<\/a>, spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"nt\">In Haiti, the same agency, known as OCHR, has also been supporting authorities, Dujarric said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"nw\">\u201cAuthorities report that priority needs include emergency shelter, essential household items, hygiene and cleaning kits, safe water and additional logistical support to reach isolated areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"nz\">The U.N. yesterday approved a $4 million allocation released from the Central Emergency Response Fund for Cuba, where the storm is expected to hit tomorrow night, Dujarric said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"o2\">\u201cThis allowed our partners to pre-position food and essential supplies \u2014 including rice, grains, hygiene kits, fuel vouchers and portable water-treatment plants \u2014 in the eastern provinces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Nations spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said today that aid has been readied for Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-257336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}