The Category 5 storm ravaged western Jamaica and drenched the small community of New River, where residents were coping with a massive clean up. At least 19 people have died nationwide, officials said.

Out of many, one people. Kimisha Simpson says she’s confident that Jamaica’s national motto will rally the diaspora and others to help rebuild the island that was battered by Hurricane Melissa earlier this week.

Jamaican business owner Derron Wilson has started a GoFundMe to support friends and family back home. He hasn't heard from them in days following a direct hit from Hurricane Melissa.

Jamaican resident and former Jamaican politician Lisa Hanna, who is stuck in Florida, joins Chris Jansing to share what she is hearing from friends and family back home about the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

Jamaican resident Kimberley Dunkley Watkins still hasn’t heard from her brother, who lives in Montego Bay, since the Hurricane Melissa hit the island as a Category 5 storm. Watkins just returned to the island after a work trip.

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction on the island of Jamaica, the nation’s third-largest hospital in Black River faces tremendous challenges as it tries to care for the country’s sick and injured.

Taste of the Caribbean in Seattle's Central District plans to hold a fundraiser for those affected by the Category 5 storm that has killed dozens.

The storm will hit Bermuda on Thursday afternoon or evening, after Jamaica faced the devastation from one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.

Tulloch-Neil, a member of the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council, an organization working to build collaboration between Jamaicans worldwide, migrated from the Caribbean island over 30 years ago. She is one of about 9,300 Philadelphians who were born in Jamaica, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Drone footage captured how a Jamaican fishing village was reduced to rubble in damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. Aerial video of Alligator Pond from Wednesday (October 29) shows how boats, homes, and other buildings close to the coast were impacted after the category 5 storm made landfall with sustained winds of 185mph.