text:  Ambarasan Esirajan. Hurricane Beryl, a powerful Category 4 storm, is barrelling towards Jamaica after causing devastation in smaller islands in the Eastern Caribbean. In St Vincent and the Grenadines, the majority of the population of Union Island is homeless. Roads have been blocked and power cables are down. In Grenada, on two of its three islands, almost all the homes and buildings are destroyed, as well as much of the island's vegetation.