Hurricane Melissa Slams Jamaica
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Boston family vacationing in Jamaica bracing for the worst as Hurricane Melissa hits island
They closed all the restaurants, they closed all the pools, everything’s getting boarded up so the glass doesn’t shatter,” said Leilani Perez, who’s from Hyde Park.
British tourists in Jamaica have been told to prepare as the island’s strongest storm on record closes in. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has set up a crisis centre ready to help Britons on the Caribbean island and the Royal Navy ship HMS Trent is already in the region on stand-by.