Devastating

WHEN Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica, Adjani Salmon could only watch from afar, powerless as the storm tore through the island he calls home.

- BY SELINA JULIEN

"It was heartbreaking," he says quietly. "My mum's house in Montego was damaged, pieces of the roof were completely blown off. That house has stood through Gilbert and Ivan, so to see it finally give way really hit me. I knew then how serious it was."

The writer, director and star of the critically acclaimed BBC comedy Dreaming Whilst Black was born in South London but raised in Jamaica from the age of five to 23, experiencing several major hurricanes during that time.

He recalls the noise, the chaos and the remarkable togetherness that always followed. But this time felt different.

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