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Category Five Hurricane

The Bahamas Preps For Pledge Conference to Mobilise Recovery Financing

Michelle Nurse Dec 4, 2019 0

NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Government of The Bahamas and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with support from the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom will stage a pledge conference on 13 January 2020 in…
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Looking back on the nightmare called Maria

Michelle Nurse Sep 18, 2018 0

Today, we take a look back at the Category Five hurricane, Maria, that roared through Dominica on the night of 18 September, one year ago. For hours from about 9:00 pm on 18 September, 2017, the winds, ripping through at more…
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Hurricane Maria could cost Dominica billions of dollars, says CDEMA

Michelle Nurse Sep 26, 2017 0

“If Erica was in the region of a half-a-billion EC dollars, this is going to be multiple times that. The entire agricultural sector is down, the tourism sector took a significant impact (and) those are two primary areas of the economy of…
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