Hurricane Melissa is set to make landfall on Tuesday as the strongest storm to hit the island in the 174 years since records began.

Jamaica is bracing for the world's strongest storm this year - and possibly the strongest on record for the island nation - as US meteorologists warn of "catastrophic and life-threatening" conditions...

The Category 5 hurricane was approaching the country Tuesday morning, producing 180 miles-an-hour winds and churning about 50 miles south-southeast of the western Jamaica town Negril.