Insurance, bonds and savings will speed recovery from the monster hurricane, but the Caribbean nation will still need international aid.

Melissa’s terrifying trip through the Caribbean also piled on evidence of the influence of a warming ocean on an evolving hurricane landscape.

How do you count the dead when you cannot reach them? This is the agonising question facing Jamaica days after Hurricane Melissa, one of the worst storms in the nation's history, tore the island apart.

Footage from a U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance flight that passed through Hurricane Melissa’s eye confirms you probably don’t want to be there. The U.S. Defense Department released the video after flying multiple passes through the Category 5 storm on Monday to collect weather data for the National Hurricane Center.

Jamaica’s peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island’s western region