Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Henley and the programme is coming to you live from London.
First,
it is the strongest storm to hit the earth this year and the strongest the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean has ever known.
Hurricane Melissa is about to reach land there.
Already three people have died and several have been injured during preparations for the storm to hit.
As it approaches,
the category five storm has 175 mile or 280 kilometer an hour winds and the capacity to dump a meter of rain very quickly.
Kuliman lives in the town of White House on the south coast.
Everybody is anxious and everybody is worried.
More than in another storm I have faced.
We know we're dealing with something really, really big.
The trees are bending right now.
We're not quite sure when it makes landfall.
All of us in Jamaica, you know, we have got fear in country.
We pray for the best.
Shortly before we came on air, I spoke to Richard Anderson,
a production manager for the Omega Church,
a Christian radio station based in Kingston on the eastern side of Jamaica.
Yeah, you can see that people are taking it serious.