* The UK Authorities has chartered flights to assist British nationals depart Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, advising them to make use of industrial flights first the place potential.
* The UK is offering £2.5 million in humanitarian assist for emergency provides comparable to shelter kits, water filters, and blankets, and sending Speedy Deployment Groups and consultants to help aid efforts.
* Precedence for repatriation flights can be given to susceptible people, together with these with medical wants and households with youngsters; eligible passengers embody British nationals, their instant members of the family, and Windrush era residents.
* Hurricane Melissa brought about extreme destruction in Jamaica, leaving many of the island with out energy and displacing over 25,000 folks, whereas additionally devastating components of Haiti with vital casualties.
