At Door County Candle, every penny of profit from their newly launched Jamaica Candle goes directly to relief efforts.

Help is on the way in the form of hurricane relief support for residents in St Elizabeth and Westmoreland who were severely impacted by Hurricane Melissa through the United States-based non-profit organisation,

Royal Caribbean Group has pledged over $1 million in donations and relief supplies to help Jamaica recover after Hurricane Melissa.

Maie Lee Jones and Adonis Zamora of the Cuban food truck Habana 406, here in Helena, still have family and friends in Cuba and Jamaica.

Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team and more than 38,000 pounds of life-saving relief supplies to Jamaica to help with Hurricane Melissa recovery effects.

The State Department will direct support to other nations like Jamaica through platforms established by their government.

Founded in Santa Barbara in 1948 by Holocaust refugee William Zimdin, Direct Relief began as a small, personal effort to send supplies to war-torn Europe, Morain explained. “According to our history, his butler and his partner started sending relief packages from their pantry in Montecito.”

Ian and Trudi Ferguson, from Witton Gilbert, County Durham, were forced to take refuge in the bathroom of their seafront hotel when Hurricane Melissa hit. Robyn Laverick said she lost contact with her parents at about 15:00 GMT on Tuesday and it was nerve-wracking and horrible not knowing what was happening.