“It was angry. That’s what it sounded like to me. When the roof came off, there were these horrible screeches, this horrible noise. It was devastating, and we all had to run.” Primrose Thomas’ home was destroyed along with 90 percent of the houses and buildings in Barbuda. Powerful hurricanes…...
Hurricanes Set Back Region’s Bread and Butter Industry
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday November 1, 2017 – Caribbean Tourism Month opened today on a bittersweet note with Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Secretary General Hugh Riley conceding that recent Hurricanes Irma and Maria has set back the region’s bread and butter industry. In his message to mark the occasion, Riley said…...
High-level conference to mobilize resources for hurricane-ravaged CARICOM States coming in November
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will hold a High-level Donor Conference on 20-21 November at UN Headquarters in New York to mobilise international resources for its Members devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. This initiative is aimed at rebuilding the devastated Members…...
Irma, Harvey, Maria and beyond: We need to talk about finance
Heavy-hitting and repeated cyclones in the Caribbean, intense and devastating flooding across South Asia – and this in just the last few weeks. Unabated, unmanaged disaster risk is wreaking havoc across our planet, killing, destroying and setting back progress. A few months ago, not far away from where Harvey, Irma…...
All-star cast for benefit show
CARIBBEAN Love Now, a benefit concert in of aid of the hurricane-battered islands of the Eastern Caribbean islands, is scheduled for Red Stripe Oval on Spanish Town Road in Kingston on Wednesday, November 22. “It’s going to be huge,” Josef Bogdanovich, event organiser, told Jamaica Observer. The list of artistes…...