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Jamaica’s government says it has done all it can to prepare for strongest hurricane in country since records began

Hurricane Melissa – latest updates

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, where sheltering residents braced themselves for ferocious winds, flash flooding and landslides from the category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.

The slow-moving colossus is the strongest hurricane to hit Jamaica since records began in 1851 and will linger over the island for hours before turning northeast.