Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, tore through a new swath of the Caribbean, where it had left islands flattened and communities inundated, then continued toward Mexico on Thursday.
In Jamaica, residents who emerged from shelters took in a landscape of farmland that had been devastated, homes that had sustained damage and roads that were covered with toppled utility poles and foliage.
“The whole place mash up,” Steve Taylor, a resident of the low-lying coastal town of Mitchell Town, told a local television station.
St. Elizabeth, a farming region known as the country’s bread basket, was hit particularly hard.
“Southwest St. Elizabeth is facing complete devastation,” said Jamaica’s agriculture minister, Floyd Green.
Persons:
” Steve Taylor, Elizabeth, ”, Floyd Green
Locations:
Caribbean, Mexico, Jamaica, Mitchell, St
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