Rescuers and aid workers fanned out across Jamaica to distribute food and water, reaching communities still isolated four days after Hurricane Melissa hit the island.
Essential relief supplies are now rolling into hurricane-stricken St Elizabeth and Westmoreland on Saturday (November 1, 2025), most of which had been cut off by fallen concrete posts and trees strewn across roads.
However, in some areas, people were forced to dip buckets into rivers, collecting the muddy water for everyday use, while others drank coconut water and roasted breadfruit.
In Westmoreland, mangled metal sheets, splintered wooden frames of houses and fragments of furniture littered the coastline.
Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr was among several convoys of eme
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