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Desperate Survivors Try to Kickstart Recovery as They Wait for Help for the Living — and the Dead

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By David Culver, Joe Merkel and Sean Walker, CNN Black River, Jamaica (CNN) — The air smells of damp earth and drying mud. Smoke from debris fires mixes with a faint tang of fuel from the few generators that still have gas. Every sound carries: the strike of hammers and the scrape of shovels as Jamaicans try to dig out and rebuild after Hurricane Melissa slammed into the island. CNN reached the hardest-hit western parishes and the towns of Belmo…

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Desperate survivors in Jamaica try to kickstart recovery as they wait for help for the living — and the dead

A lifeless body in a home. A toddler looking at her broken bed. A mom with a prescription and nowhere to fill it. This is what CNN found in the devastation around Belmont, Black River and White House after Hurricane Melissa.

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CNN broke the news in Atlanta, United States on Monday, November 3, 2025.
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