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Hello, welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service. We're coming to live from London this

Monday. I'm Sean Lad. It's good to have your company. Parts of the Caribbean are bracing for the

arrival of

Hurricane Melissa, a rare Category 5 storm. Eastern Cuba, the southwest of Haiti and the Turks and

Kakos Islands are in its path, but it's their fellow island nation, Jamaica, where the impact

is expected to be felt most directly. Forecasters are warning of the potentially devastating

impact on Kingston, the capital,

which is on the southern coast of Jamaica. They've predicted wind speeds never before experienced

on the island, exceeding 160 miles an hour. The government urged citizens to heed warnings

and made evacuation orders in some areas mandatory. Here are some residents of Jamaica.

Me personally, I've never witnessed a hurricane that has damaged Jamaica. So I'm not sure if I'm

scared because I don't know what to expect. Well, the look of how things is going right now and how I

see is sky and the weather coming in. I think this one is

different. This one going to impact us hard. We use plywoods to barricade the areas and sandbags

to ensure that during the storm we don't have any issues of any debris going inside or anybody

passed by to probably want to go inside. Well that's some of the residents preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa,

but there is evidence that other people are ignoring the evacuation orders. A few hours

ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holders held a news conference. I urge all our citizens and I make a special

appeal to our young people. Some have never really experienced the true impact of a hurricane. I urge you

to stay inside. And I ask our heads of households and elders to engage with our young people

so that they understand. Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness, or Dana Morris Dixon,

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