* The UK Authorities has chartered flights to assist British nationals depart Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, advising them to make use of business flights first the place doable.
* The UK is offering £2.5 million in humanitarian support for emergency provides comparable to shelter kits, water filters, and blankets, and sending Fast Deployment Groups and consultants to help aid efforts.
* Precedence for repatriation flights will probably be given to susceptible people, together with these with medical wants and households with youngsters; eligible passengers embody British nationals, their rapid members of the family, and Windrush era residents.
* Hurricane Melissa brought on extreme destruction in Jamaica, leaving a lot of the island with out energy and displacing over 25,000 individuals, whereas additionally devastating elements of Haiti with important casualties.
