"Seeing the videos and the photographs is one thing, but actually being there in person and seeing the damage is quite another," a local senator said. "It's heartbreaking."

God’s Pit Crew is mobilizing to provide urgent relief to families and communities across Jamaica that have been devastated by Hurricane Melissa. According to officials, God’s Pit Crew tractor-trailers are currently on their way to Miami,

Rhapsody of the Seas is delivering dozens of pallets of critical supplies to Falmouth, Jamaica instead of a planned port visit.

Follow live updates on Hurricane Melissa as the death toll reaches 38 people. Recovery efforts are underway in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

The Union have extended their donation drive to collect items for people affected by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean. They have also expanded the effort, now including goalkeeper Andre Blake ’s Jamaica and midfielder Danley Jean Jacques’ Haiti.

A lifeless body in a home. A toddler looking at her broken bed. A mom with a prescription and nowhere to fill it. This is what CNN found in Jamaica’s devastation after Hurricane Melissa.

People have been urged to donate through official channels if they want to support Hurricane-hit Jamaican communities after "several scams" have been set up. Gloucester has been twinned with the Jamaican parish of St Ann for almost 40 years and the city is now rallying together to help those impacted.

LONG before prefabricated homes became a modern trend, Jamaican great-grandparents were already building houses on ‘cellars’ — raised wooden frames that could be lifted and moved when life demanded it. That tradition has all but disappeared, but a Chinese construction firm is bringing back the idea in high-tech form with modular cabin houses.