* The UK Authorities has chartered flights to assist British nationals go away Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, advising them to make use of industrial 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 Speedy Deployment Groups and specialists to assist aid efforts.
* Precedence for repatriation flights might be given to weak people, together with these with medical wants and households with youngsters; eligible passengers embrace British nationals, their instant relations, and Windrush era residents.
* Hurricane Melissa precipitated extreme destruction in Jamaica, leaving a lot of the island with out energy and displacing over 25,000 folks, whereas additionally devastating elements of Haiti with important casualties.
