A man at the waterfront in Kingston ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Photograph: Ricardo Makyn / AFP
Hurricane Melissa was set to hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a catastrophic category five storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began 174 years ago.
The storm was expected to make landfall early on Tuesday and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St Ann parish in the north, forecasters said.
Hours before the storm, the government said i
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