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Category 5 Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica

VIDEOS: Hurricane Melissa, a monster Atlantic storm, makes landfall in Jamaica with record strength

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 hurricane, bringing fierce 185 mph winds, heavy rain and flooding, life-threatening storm surge, and power outages. Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record and is the most intense storm to hit Jamaica since records began being kept 174 years ago.

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VIDEOS: Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Cuba as Category 3 storm

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The Latest: Category 5 Hurricane Melissa set to make landfall in Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa could be the strongest to hit Jamaica since records began in 1851

Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica with up to 30 inches (76 centimetres) of rain and a life-threatening storm surge.

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Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica wakes up to destruction as storm pummels Cuba

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The Latest: Category 5 Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica with record strength

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Eye of Melissa moves past Jamaica after hitting as strongest hurricane in the region in 174 years

Colin Bogle, a Mercy Corps advisor based near Kingston, said most families are sheltering in place despite the government ordering evacuations in flood-prone communities.

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Hurricane Melissa leaves 25 dead in Haiti, causes widespread damage in Jamaica and Cuba

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Jamaica reels from strongest hurricane in its history as Cuba hit by 'life-threatening' storm surges

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Kingston Western police list 17 persons of interest

The Kingston Western Police have named 17 individuals as persons of interest in relation to ongoing investigations into several crimes committed across the division and its environs. The police believe these individuals can assist with their investigations and are urging them to turn themselves in to the Denham Town Police immediately.

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Five arrested as police seize high powered rifle in Kingston Central

The authorities have taken five people into custody following a joint police-military operation in the Kingston Central Police Division on Friday

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Violence erupts after police in Jamaica kill a top gang leader they had sought for years

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Jamaica killed a top gang leader whose death unleashed a violent backlash near the capital of Kingston on Thursday, prompting authorities to raise the threat level to police officers to extreme. The shooting ...

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Suspect in central Kingston drive-by killed; victim succumbs to injuries — police

One of the main suspects in last Tuesday’s mass shooting in central Kingston has been shot and killed by the police. He has been identified as Joshua Lawrence, otherwise called "Southie”. According to Acting Commissioner of Police (ACP),

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Police in Jamaica impose curfews after recent shootings leave 5 dead and 10 injured

Authorities in Jamaica have imposed curfews following two recent shootings in which five people were killed and 10 others injured as suspected gang violence rattles the Caribbean island.

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Jamaica police charged with killing pregnant woman

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – Jamaican prosecutors announced Tuesday that a veteran Jamaican policeman will be charged with murdering a heavily pregnant woman as he was trying to arrest her for cursing in the middle of a town square. Horrified eyewitnesses in ...