Hurricane Melissa has caused extreme destruction and a rising death total across the Caribbean as the storm moves towards the Bahamas on Oct. 29.

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica on October 28 as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to ever make landfall on the island nation.

“There has been tremendous unprecedented devastation of infrastructure, of property, road network connectivity, energy has been lost,” says Dennis Zulu, the United Nations resident coordinator for Jam...