Communications are still cut off in many areas but some news is starting to filter out about the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica.

The President of the Jamaican Canadian Association in Newfoundland and Labrador, Didan Wedderburn says a lot of her family is in Westmoreland Parish on the western end of the country, which was hardest hit by the storm.

She has made contact with her parents and siblings living on the eastern end of the island and they’re doing well, but the news out of Westmoreland where Melissa made landfall is not good.

“Entire communities are flattened,” says Wedderburn. “Homes are completely wiped out, including properties owned by my family, so it has been a very trying day to process.”

She says the greatest strain is not being able to reach out to fa

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