Hurricane Melissa Jamaica: At least three people have died and five others were injured in Haiti amid storm’s impact as strengthening Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds and the US National Hurricane Center expects it to reach Category 5 status on Tuesday. This is likely to cause a catastrophic flooding and torrential rain in the northern Caribbean, including Jamaica and Haiti. The centre of the hurricane is located 125 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica as the storm moves westward.

Tracking Melissa: The US forecasters have said that Melissa is expected to move near or over Jamaica as a major hurricane early on Tuesday, thereafter it’ll reach Cuba on Tuesday night, and the hurricane would then head across the southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday. Hurricane Melissa is expected to drop rains of up to 30 inches on Jamaica and southern Hispaniola, including Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to the hurricane centre.