The Jamaican government stated in a press conference on Wednesday that
Jamaica's Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, said, "We cannot comment on any deaths at this time because we have not yet received any reports of any deaths, so we cannot assume that any have occurred."
Jamaica's Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, said, "We cannot comment on any deaths at this time because we have not yet received any reports of any deaths, so we cannot assume that any have occurred."
According to the Associated Press, Senator Abaka Fitz-Henley, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, told a local radio station that officials have confirmed the first death in Jamaica since Melissa's landfall, and that the death was caused by a tree falling on an infant.
Melissa has now been blamed for at least four deaths in Jamaica, three of which occurred during storm preparations.
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