San Juan, Puerto Rico — Officials in Jamaica said Thursday that Hurricane Melissa ripped the roofs off 120,000 structures when it struck last week, affecting some 90,000 families in the island’s western region, in the latest tally of the storm's toll.

More than 180 shelters remain open, with 2,487 people living in them more than a week after the Category 5 storm made landfall, according to Alvin Gayle, director general of Jamaica’s emergency management office.

Crews are still clearing roads in an attempt to reach 27 communities that remain cut off by landslides and flooding.

“I hear the cry of every baby that is now hungry in a community that is not yet reached. It goes to bed with me,” said Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

Roughly half the island remains without power, although officia

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