Hurricane-battered Dominica will get a just over US$19 million payout from the CCRIF SPC – formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility soon. The CCRIF announced that the US$19,294,800 payout will be made under the island’s tropical cyclone policy with 14 days of the hurricane which...
REGIONAL disaster management and relief authorities are predicting that it will cost Dominica several billions of dollars to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, which struck the Eastern Caribbean island last week, killing an estimated 20 people and leaving the small island nation...
Further to its recently announced relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and Maria, C&W Communications (C&W) yesterday launched the Cable & Wireless Charitable Foundation ('the Foundation'), with seed funding of US$500K to help support humanitarian efforts across the region. The initial primary purpose of...
[caption id="attachment_19259" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rescue team members Candida Lozada (left) and Stephanie Rivera embrace as they wait to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Humacao, Puerto Rico, yesterday.[/caption] The strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years destroyed hundreds of homes,...
The losses caused by Hurricane Irma in the region don’t stop at the actual damage on the ground. Regional carrier LIAT says it will actually lose millions of dollars as a result of the Category 5 hurricane’s assault on the northern Caribbean last week. That’s because...