Watch LIVE: Officials hold conference in Jamaica – as Hurricane set to make landfall | ITV News

Live from Kingston as Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength storm.

This will be the strongest storm to hit the island since records began 174 years ago.

Hurricane Melissa has left seven people dead in the Caribbean ahead of making landfall in Jamaica, where it is expected to be the strongest storm to hit the island since records began.

The category 5 storm is expected to strike Jamaica later on Tuesday, bringing a metre of rain, a life-threatening storm surge of up to four metres and 160mph winds.

Weather conditions brought by the hurricane have already left three people dead in Jamaica. A further three were killed in Haiti and one person was killed in the Dominican Republic, where another remains missing.