Caribbean: Hurricane forecast

Posted 6 April 2006 3:32 GMT

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Linda Thompkins reports on a recent meeting held to discuss the 2006 hurricane season and its implications for the Caribbean. The hurricane season begins officially on June 1.

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Updates about US Virgin Islands

3 January 2012

“It’s gotten graphic there – waste that’s piling up in toilets that cannot be flushed; people crawling around in cisterns trying to retrieve a bucket of water to meet a small part of their needs. And this is 2012″: No See Um blogs about the untenable water rationing situation in St. Thomas.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

10 November 2011

Protest

News of St. John reports that “the high cost of electricity on [the island] generated a protest demonstration in Cruz Bay.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

28 September 2011

Environment

“After several near-misses by tropical storms, the island has now escaped trouble from new earthquakes”: News of St. John has the details.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

22 September 2011

Development

News of St. John says it just “doesn't seem right…that budget allocations to the St. John Capital Improvement Fund never seem to be earmarked to help improve St. John's streets, parking lots, curbs, sidewalks…and this year apparently will be no different.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

15 September 2011

Environment

“That was one large storm but it didn't really live up to the forecasts thank goodness”: live de life is glad to see the back of Tropical Storm Maria, saying: “Finally the rain has stopped and we're seeing the sun again!”

• Janine Mendes-Franco