Port-au-Prince - The number of deaths in Haiti in the wake of four major storms in August and September has more than doubled to at least 793, reports said Saturday.
A further 300 people were still missing, Haitian civil defence director, Marie Alta Jean Baptiste was quoted as saying in media reports in Port-au-Prince.
In early September, authorities had estimated 326 deaths.
Havana/Buenos Aires - Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike represent a destructive march through the alphabet as the lethal sequence of tropical storms that have hit the Caribbean.
As a result of the four consecutive storms in as many weeks, Haiti has a death toll of close to 350 with scores more people missing while Cuba has four dead after having evacuated about 1.6 million people.
Winds, rains and floods have caused extensive agricultural and infrastructure damage to both Caribbean nations; however, their responses to the storms have been as different as their cultures.
Havana/Port-au-Prince, Haiti - The whole of Cuba was in a state of emergency as Hurricane Ike looked likely to batter Havana Tuesday as well as western sections of the island after already leaving four dead.
More than 24 hours after making landfall Sunday night at Cabo Lucrecia in the east, Ike continued to lash the Caribbean island with sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour.
Port-au-Prince/Jamaica - The number of victims of tropical storm Gustav climbed Thursday, as the storm moved from Haiti and Cuba south to Jamaica.
In Haiti, the death toll rose to 59, the country's civil defence authorities said Thursday evening.
Then hurricane-strength Gustav hit the island near the city Jacqmel two days ago with wind speeds topping 150 kilometres per hour. Regions in the affected south-west were cut off from the rest of the country by mudslides and floods.
Eight people were killed in neighbouring Dominican Republic, authorities said.
Port-au-Prince - The number of deaths in Haiti in the wake of four major storms in August and September has more than doubled to at least 793, reports said Saturday.
The whole of Cuba was in a state of emergency as Hurricane Ike looked likely to batter Havana Tuesday as well as western sections of the island after already leaving four dead.
Port-au-Prince - Hurricane Ike, 
Port-au-Prince/Jamaica - The number of victims of tropical storm Gustav climbed Thursday, as the storm moved from Haiti and Cuba south to Jamaica.
