Por ARIEL FERNÁNDEZ, ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ, JOHN MYERS JR. y EVENS SANONSANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — El huracán Melissa dejó decenas de muertos y causó una

The rumble of large machinery, whine of chain saws and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean on Thursday as they dug out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa and surveyed the damage left behind.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwest Jamaica this week near the coastal town of Black River, which the government has described as “ground zero.”