More than half 500,000 people were without power in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa passed. Photo: AP PHOTO

Hurricane Melissa is grinding across Cuba as a category two storm after pummelling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the US National Hurricane Center says.

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At least one death was reported in Jamaica, where Melissa roared ashore on Tuesday with top sustained winds of 295 km/h.

A tree fell on a baby in the island's west, Abka Fitz-Henley, a state minister, told Nationwide News Network, a local radio station, adding that most of the destruction was c

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