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Jamaica’s death toll from Hurricane Melissa has risen to at least 28 people, the country’s government said Saturday, and some of the areas hit hardest by the Category 5 storm have yet to be reached as crews work to clear roads and debris. The hurricane, one of the strongest ever recorded in the Caribbean , also carved a path of destruction through Cuba and the Bahamas last week, and left 30 people dead in Haiti.

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Nearly a week after the hurricane “pummeled into western Jamaica,” the BBC said, people in “devastated communities along the coast are still desperately waiting for help,” with “little food, no power or running water, and no idea of when normalcy will return.” The western part of the island is “considered Jamaica’s breadbasket,” Reuters said, an

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