Recovery efforts are underway after Hurricane Melissa left a path of devastation in the Caribbean this week.

The United Nations said the damage in Jamaica, where the storm made landfall on Tuesday (October 28) as a Category 5 hurricane , was on a level "never seen before." Cuba is also reported to be calculating cost of damages after homes collapsed and blocked roads, with an estimated 735,000 people reported to be in shelters and the full extent of damage undetermined.

At least 31 people have died in relation to Hurricane Melissa 's devastation across several countries. At least 25 people died and several remain trapped in homes in Petit-Goáve, Haiti, after a river was flooded by the powerful storm, Mayor Jean Bertrans Subrème told the Associated Press .

“I am overwhelmed b

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