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While the Cayman Islands have been spared the worst of Hurricane Beryl, parts of the Caribbean are now in recovery mode after being devastated by the storm, which has claimed at least 10 lives across the region.
Before making its way past the Cayman Islands early Thursday morning, Beryl hammered the southern coast of Jamaica as a Category 4 storm.
Authorities in Jamaica have reported that two people were killed on the island during the hurricane – a woman who died after a tree fell on her house and a man who had been washed away in floodwaters.
The centre of Beryl passed just 45 miles south of Kingston, with winds of 140 miles per hour.
After becoming the only Category 4 storm to ever develop in the Atlantic in June, Beryl began a path of destruction through the Caribbean when it made landfall in the Windward Islands.
It first slammed into the tiny island of Carriacou in Grenada, causing massive damage and killing at least two people. Following the passage of the storm, Prime Minister of Grenada Dickon Mitchell said the storm had “flattened” Carriacou in half an hour.
Seven people are known to have been killed across Grenada and St. Vincent and thousands were left homeless.
The storm also hit Venezuela, reportedly killing three people.
After passing through the Windward Islands, Beryl strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane before weakening again to a Category 4 by the time it struck Jamaica, and to a Category 3 when it reached Cayman.
On Thursday morning, as Cayman was just beginning to assess damage after Beryl skirted its southern coast, King Charles III issued a message of support to those in the Caribbean impacted by the storm.
In it, he said he and his family were deeply saddened by the “dreadful destruction” the storm had wrought.
“Above all, we send our heartfelt condolences to the friends and families of those who have so cruelly lost their lives,” he said in a statement, in which he commended the “resilience and solidarity” of the people of the Caribbean in response to the storm destruction.
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