Nearly one week after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on the island, the Caribbean nation is organizing to help people devastated by the disaster, which has claimed dozens of lives as of Monday.

The death toll from the storm is up to 32 people in Jamaica, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon told a press briefing Monday, though the number was expected to rise. The overall death toll throughout the Caribbean exceeds 60 victims.

"We need every help we can get. So we need food, water, toiletries," said Tackeisha Frazer, a resident of Westmoreland, one of the areas hit hardest by Melissa last week.

"We have a lot of persons who are displaced and not able to either sleep or have anything," she told AFP while waiting in line at a m

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