SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba A vehicle travels along a road affected by Hurricane Melissa; in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, Oct. 30 2025. The death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose Thursday to nearly 50 people, officials said, after the ferocious storm devastated Caribbean islands and was bearing down on Bermuda. Flooding was expected to subside in the Bahamas although high water could persist in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm,