Death toll is still climbing after category five hurricane – the strongest type – hit the Caribbean at the end of October

Sisters Evelyn Harrington who lives in Jamaica, and her sister Gillian Quinlan who spends much of her time there in happier times before Melissa hit

Sisters Evelyn Harrington who lives in Jamaica, and her sister Gillian Quinlan who spends much of her time there in happier times before Melissa hit

Two Irish sisters have described the peak moment of Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica as like “a scene from an apocalypse movie”.

Gillian Quinlan, from Cork, travelled to the Caribbean island country in September to visit her older sister Evelyn Harrington.