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It is still not possible to make a definitive assessment of the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Melissa on the Caribbean Islands. Jamaica suffered the most, exposed to the huge storm's highest intensity, followed by Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas.

So far, at least 49 people have lost their lives in Jamaica, and 29 deaths have been confirmed in Haiti, according to Reuters, but the overall death toll is still uncertain.

Hurricane Melissa was listed as a category 5 hurricane when it hit Jamaica, and then was downgraded to category 3 in Cuba, and then reduced to category 1 when it reached the Bahamas. Although the storm is expected to gain more power on its way to Bermuda.

Labelled by the experts as ‘the storm of the century’, the hurricane is the strongest that Jamaica has eve

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