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Caribbean: Hurricane unpreparedness?

Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico (U.S.), Saint Lucia, St. Barthélémy, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St.Kitts & Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Isl., US Virgin Islands, Disaster, Governance

As hurricane season begins, Taran Rampersad worries that “the Caribbean in general can't handle a Category 3 hurricane. All everyone is discussing at this point is how fast one can recover [1]”.