Caribbean gov’ts yet to fulfil financial commitments to Haiti – CDEMA head
From Jamaica Gleaner Head of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson has revealed that some two weeks after Hurricane Matthew ravaged Haiti, Caribbean governments are yet to make good on their commitments to provide financial resources for…
Oxbridge Re issues update on Hurricane Matthew
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / October 19, 2016 / Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited (OXBR), a provider of reinsurance solutions to property and casualty insurers in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, has issued an initial assessment…
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[Bahamas] Govt considers a hurricane tax/Bahamas Opposition party against ‘hurricane tax’
By RASHAD ROLLE From Tribune 242 WHEN it meets today, Cabinet may consider introducing and implementing a special tax to help finance Hurricane Matthew repair and recovery efforts, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday. If implemented, such a tax may…
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Caribbean – Hurricane Matthew Fact Sheet #6, Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
REPORT from US Agency for International Development From reliefweb HIGHLIGHTS Increased road access and logistics capacity enable relief agencies to reach more hurricane-affected populations USAID food and relief commodity distributions continue as GoH and UN estimate 806,000 people in urgent…
Haiti relief
Cayman Islands relief effort to Haiti finally gets off the ground Relief supplies to Haiti that have been poring in to the Saxon offices on Eastern Avenue finally got loaded onto a Cayman Airways plane. Matthew Leslie of the Cayman…
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UN Chief in Haiti gets glimpse of Matthew’s destruction
By Associated Press From The New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived Saturday in Haiti to see firsthand a sliver of the extensive destruction left by Hurricane Matthew as storm victims continued to express frustration at…
Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Assoc. urging region’s tourism industries to help Haiti, Bahamas
From The Virgin Islands The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is urging the region’s tourism industry stakeholders to assist with both immediate and sustained relief efforts to support the people of Haiti and parts of The Bahamas which were…
Cayman Islands utility company helps with restoration work in Bahamas after Hurricane Matthew
CUC Linepersons to assist with restoration efforts in the Bahamas Five members of CUC’s Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Operations department left Grand Cayman on Wednesday, October 12th to assist the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) with the restoration of power following…
JN Money Transfer waives fees to assist Haiti recovery
JN Money Services, operators of the JN Money Transfer brand, has waived all fees on remittances being sent to Haiti, as part of its drive to assist residents in the Caribbean country, as they recover from the flooding and dislocations…
From Caribbean to Carolinas, Hurricane Matthew left devastation in wake
By Andrea Thompson FromWX shift A few miles made the difference between a storm that could have been so much worse and one that was already bad enough. With at least 30 people killed in the U.S., and more than…
