By the time Melissa made landfall midday on Tuesday along the southwest coast of Jamaica, the storm was the most intense hurricane I have seen make landfall in my decades of watching the Atlantic tro...

The scale of devastation left by Hurricane Melissa is becoming clear after the record-setting storm tore through Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, leaving at least 32 people dead.

Authorities across the region, struggling to keep track of the devastation, confirmed 25 deaths in Haiti - 10 of them children - and four in Jamaica.