Wait. Watch. Pray. That’s what it has come down to for residents of Jamaica and their millions of friends and family around the world.

In the nation’s capital, staff at the Embassy of Jamaica are hard at work.

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“The key is we are a very resilient people,” Jamaica’s Ambassador to the U.S. Antony Anderson told News4. “We don’t just fold and collapse because we have a hard time.

The potential for Hurricane Melissa to bring unprecedented devastation to his country gives Jamaica’s Ambassador to the U.S. Antony Anderson significant responsibility in the aftermath.

“And of course, we have a lot of pledges of support, including, I know, from my discussions with the Department of State, that they have already deployed assessmen

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