"I ask our people not to let their guard down, to maintain discipline and continue well protected," Miguel Díaz-Canel says in a post on X.

Hurricane Melissa slammed into the southern coast of eastern Cuba on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean isl...

In addition to the rainfall, Melissa is likely to cause a life-threatening storm surge on Jamaica's southern coast, peaking around 13ft above ground level, the US centre said.