#TrackingMelissa: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has declared Jamaica a 'disaster area', as the country reels from widespread infrastructural damage and catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Melissa’s passage across the island. Tuesday's decision follows advice from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management and Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie, amid widespread flooding, landslides, and severe infrastructural damage particularly across Clarendon, Manchester, St Elizabeth and Westmoreland, where many communities remain cut off and roads impassable. (ianfoto23)