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Sunday 19 August 2007

Curfew As 'Monster' Dean Hits Jamaica

Sky News Headline; says: ' Hurricane Dean has hit Jamaica. The Caribbean island has declared a curfew and cut off power supplies. Troops are preventing looting as holidaymakers take refuge from the Category 4 storm which has already claimed at least eight lives in the region. It is packing winds of 150 mph and bringing up to 20 inches of rain.

Disaster co-ordinator Krechet Greaves told Sky News: "We're well aware that we have a monster to prepare for.'