Overview
- Authorities report 30 deaths in Haiti, 19 in Jamaica and one in the Dominican Republic, with at least 20 people still missing in Haiti.
- Roughly 490,000 Jamaican customers—about 70–72%—remain without electricity, and more than 130 roads are blocked, complicating delivery of food, water and medical aid.
- The U.S. State Department deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team for Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas and Cuba, and emergency flights have resumed into Kingston to bring supplies.
- UN officials say preliminary assessments indicate devastation in Jamaica “never seen before,” while AccuWeather’s early estimate puts damage and economic losses at $48–52 billion.
- Cuba reports no fatalities after evacuating about 735,000 residents, as Melissa weakens on a path past the Bahamas toward Bermuda.