[8] The country's sole electricity provider, the Jamaica Public Service Company, reported that 70 percent of its customers were without power.

Looters shot and wounded a police official as he led a group of officers through Craig Town, a section of West Kingston.

Jamaican authorities closed the island's international airports, and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting.

Cruise ships changed their itineraries to avoid the storm, which made landfall the afternoon of October 24 near the capital, Kingston.

Parliament member Daryl Vaz reported that most buildings had lost their roofs, in addition to widespread damage to banana crops.

Approximately 70 percent of the island lost power because of Sandy, and schools in the Kingston area would likely remain closed for a week.

Resorts in Montego Bay and Negril sustained no major damage, and cruise ship terminals reopened to vessels after a 24-hour suspension of services.

Authorities warned that the extent of the damage is not clear, since some major roads remained impassable, and it would likely be weeks before life in most areas returned to normal.

[11] In Haiti, which was still recovering from the effects of the 2010 earthquake, at least 104 people have died,[12] and an estimated 200,000 were left homeless as of October 29, as a result of four days of ongoing rain from Hurricane Sandy.

[15] Most of the tents and buildings in the city's sprawling refugee camps and the Cité Soleil neighborhood were flooded or leaking, a repeat of what happened earlier in the year during the passage of Hurricane Isaac.

[10] The United Nations warned that flooding and unsanitary conditions may reignite the ongoing cholera epidemic which begins shortly after the quake.

[21] At least 55,000 people had been evacuated principally because of expected flooding from rains that could total up to 20 inches (510 mm) in some places and a storm surge the Cuban weather service said was already beginning along the southeastern coast around midnight EDT.

Several Cuban provinces promised to send brigades to help Santiago recover, although officials gave a long list of other towns that suffered devastation.