Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago.

Hurricane Melissa is bearing down on Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean as a top-level Category 5 storm, with forecasters predicting catastrophic flooding and urging residents to seek shelter im...

The prime minister has declared Jamaica a "disaster area" and warned of "devastating impacts" - but the full extent will not been known until daybreak.