500,000 flee homes as Ivan the terrible lashes Jamaica

HURRICANE Ivan’s deadly winds and monstrous waves lashed Jamaica last night as more than half a million people were advised to evacuate.

The most destructive of the four hurricanes in this hurricane season was due to slam into the densely populated capital of Kingston then leave the Caribbean island via the tourism centre of Montego Bay.

It has already left Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses, twisted metal and splintered wood, with the death toll hitting more than 30, including two foreign yachtsman.