A day after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica, advocates and community leaders in the Tampa Bay area began organizing relief efforts to help families on the island.

Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader announced the lifting of preventive measures across most of the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Melissa moved away from the country, allowing conditions to gradually return to normal.

Hurricane season can be stressful for anyone near the potential path of a storm, as powerful winds and heavy rain can cause widespread damage, cut power for days or weeks and otherwise

The National Hurricane Center is tracking Major Hurricane Melissa, expected to strike Jamaica starting late Monday night. While no tropical alerts are in effect for Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands,

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa was stationary in the central Caribbean early Friday, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane while unleashing potentially “catastrophic” flash flooding and landslides in southern Haiti.

(Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the southern coast of eastern Cuba on Wednesday as a category three hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory. Melissa was located about 60 miles (95 km) west-southwest of Guantanamo,