Parts of the Caribbean are conducting search and rescue operations and surveying the extensive destruction Hurricane Melissa brought to the region, leaving dozens of people dead and drawing an outpouring of support from the international community.

Hurricane Melissa brought devastation and death to the Caribbean as it tore through the region as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in more than 150 years.

Melissa smashed Jamaica as one of the most powerful Caribbean storms in recorded history, leaving much of the island-nation without power and flooded under feet of relentless rain.