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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – St. Lucia’s Acting Prime Minister, Lenard Montoute, says that, apart from damage to the road network and the island’s vital banana sector, the island had survived the worst of Hurricane Maria, which ...

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) announced, today, that, since its inception in 2007, it has made payouts of a little more than US$100 million to 12 of ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – A team of firemen, from the Barbados Fire Service, left the island, today, for Dominica, to render much-needed assistance to the country that was devastated by Hurricane Maria, late yesterday. Chief Fire Officer, ...

BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – Hurricane Maria is being blamed for at least one death on the French-speaking Caribbean nation of Guadeloupe, yesterday, prior to making landfall in Dominica. According to government officials, one person was killed when ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – Jamaica’s immediate-past Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, will be conferred with a Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of the West Indies (UWI), during an official ceremony on September ...