Heavy rains and strong winds lashed the Cayman Islands on Thursday as Hurricane Beryl continued to tear through the Caribbean. Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico's Caribbean coast after leaving at least seven dead in its wake. What had been the earliest storm to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, weakened slightly but remained a major hurricane. Beryl is now a category 3 hurricane passing about 80 kilometers (50 miles) Southwest of Grand Cayman, with winds sustained at 195 kilometers per hour (120 MPH). Its eye passed just south of the Cayman Islands overnight.