Melissa lands in Cuba with marketing winds up to 200 km/h

So said the US National Uranean Centre (NHC) in its latest announcement.

Melissa was located about 95km west-western in Guantanamos, Cuba, with maximum stable winds of 195km/h, Miami-based seer said.

Cuban authorities said about 500,000 people were ordered to move to higher places.

This was several hours after he arrived on earth in nearby Jamaica as the strongest recorded Cyclone to have hit that island nation of the Caribbean.

In southwest Jamaica, St. Elizabeth's parish remained “under water”, said one official, with more than 500 thousand people without electricity, Reuters reported.

The reports we've had so far include damage to hospitals, considerable damage to residential property, housing and commercial property, as well as damage to our field infrastructure”, Jamaican Prime Minister Andree Holness said on CNN after the storm passed. Holness said the government had received no confirmed records of storm-related victims, but given the hurricane's strength and damage rate, “hopes that there will be some life loss of”. /Periscopi/