The northern Caribbean has suffered widespread destruction in Hurricane Melissa’s aftermath, with casualties mounting across multiple islands.

Across Jamaica, the urgent sounds of heavy machinery, chainsaws and machetes dominate as workers and residents clear debris-choked roads to reach cut-off communities ravaged by one of the Atlantic’s most powerful recorded hurricanes.

Dazed survivors navigate through ruins, confronting homes without roofs and belongings scattered by fierce winds and floodwaters.

“I do not have a house now,” said Sylvester Guthrie, a sanitation worker from Lacovia in the southwestern Saint Elizabeth parish, holding his bicycle – the sole valuable that survived. “I have land in another location that I can build back, but I am going to need help,” he urged.

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