Rescuers push to reach communities cut off
October 31, 2025
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The rumble of large machinery, whine of chainsaws, and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean yesterday as they dug out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa and surveyed the damage left behind.
In Jamaica, government workers and residents began clearing roads in a push to reach dozens of isolated communities in the island’s southeast that sustained a direct hit from one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record.
battling floods: A man pushes a wheelbarrow through a flooded street yesterday in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Petit-Goave, Haiti.
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