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‘We need help’: Rescuers in Bahamas face a blasted landscape

September 4, 2019, 9:40 am
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A family walks on a road after being rescued from the flood waters of Hurricane Dorian, near Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Tuesday Sept. 3, 2019. They were rescued by volunteers who drove a bus into the flood waters to pick them up. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

By RAMON ESPINOSA, DÁNICA COTO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Rescue crews in the Bahamas fanned out across a blasted landscape of smashed and flooded homes Wednesday, trying to reach drenched and stunned victims of Hurricane Dorian and take the full measure of the disaster. The official death toll stood at seven but was certain to rise.

A day after the most powerful hurricane on record ever to hit the country finished mauling the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama, emergency workers had yet to reach some stricken areas.

“Right now there are just a lot of unknowns,” Parliament member Iram Lewis said. “We need help.”  Read more >>
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A man bought 100 generators to help the Bahamas. They're being delivered by boat.

September 5, 2019, 6:29 am
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All 100 of these generators were purchased in Florida and are being shipped to the Bahamas.

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN

 (CNN)A man walked into a Costco in Florida and left with 100 generators, all of which are heading to The Bahamas.

His receipt read $49,285.70 and most of that came from paying $450 a pop for 100 generators. Peas, beans, coffee, salt, pepper and other essentials made up the rest of his mega purchase from a Costco in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday.

All of it is going to those in need on the hard-hit islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco, he said.  Read more >>
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Thousands listed as missing in the Bahamas as rescuers, family members try to find survivors

September 5, 2019, 6:34 am
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Allysan Knowles, left, holds her daughter as she listens to her nephew talk to their family after he was rescued and reunited with them at Odyssey Aviation in Nassau, Bahamas.
Photo: Washington Post photo by Carolyn Van Houten

Lori Rozsa, The Washington Post

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - As rescue crews continue to look for and evacuate people from the devastated islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama, relatives and friends are trying desperately to find loved ones in the Bahamas amid the chaos of recovery after Hurricane Dorian.

Access to the battered northern islands, where the storm caused catastrophic damage, has been limited. Search and rescue teams, including the U.S. Coast Guard and the British Royal Navy, were on the islands Wednesday trying to find survivors.

But amid communication lapses and widespread decimation, news about individuals is slow to arrive and difficult to find, so thousands of people have taken to social media to track down their kin.  Read more >>
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Bahamas resident: You can smell the death in the air

September 5, 2019, 6:40 am
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Bahamas resident Sharon Rolle tells CNN's Anderson Cooper about the scene in her neighborhood in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.Source: CNN - View video >>
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How to Help Hurricane Dorian Survivors in the Bahamas

September 5, 2019, 6:44 am
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Volunteers rescuing several families from the rising waters of Hurricane Dorian, in Freeport, Grand Bahama, on Tuesday.CreditCreditRamon Espinosa/Associated Press

By Elisabeth Malkin

Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane on Sunday and stalled over the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama Island for two days. The destructive winds, torrential rains and relentless flooding has likely destroyed more than 10,000 homes and wiped out much of the infrastructure, especially in the Abacos.

Aid experts say there will be immediate emergency needs before the long, arduous task of rebuilding begins.

Several organizations are working in the Bahamas:  Read more >>
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‘We Witnessed Dorian From Start To Finish. The Devastation, The Bodies, The Looting.’

September 6, 2019, 8:34 am
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 A scene of destruction in Abaco.

They went in thinking they were well prepared for Hurricane Dorian - but it turned into a week of hell for the reporting team from The Tribune, trapped inside Abaco first through the passage of the deadly storm itself and then trying to find a way out of an island cut off from the outside world. Reporter RASHAD ROLLE relives his experience inside an island affected by death, destruction, looting and people trying to find a way to get through the storm. With photographs and video by TERREL W CAREY.

It took little more than an hour for vast swathes of Abaco to be destroyed.

That's how long the most ferocious part of Hurricane Dorian blasted the island, tearing down buildings, sending storm surges across the island and killing many of the inhabitants.

The Tribune's team - myself and photographer Terrel W Carey Sr - had arrived on Friday ahead of the storm, and we thought we were prepared for the worst. We weren't. No one could be.  Read more >>
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Ezekiel Mutua: The man who polices Kenyan pop music

September 7, 2019, 7:17 am
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 Ezekiel Mutua has been dubbed Kenya's "moral policeman"

Kenya's "moral policeman" Ezekiel Mutua is at the centre of a new storm after banning two popular songs, but the ex-journalist relishes his role, writes the BBC's Ashley Lime from Nairobi.

When I met Mr Mutua the first things I noticed were his pencil-thin moustache and friendly smile.

The chief executive of the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) warmly welcomed me into his office, but his charm belies his reputation as a stern "moral policeman" who censors films, songs, and television adverts which feature sexualised content and same-sex relationships.

A song with references to oral sex, adverts for a "sex party" and a film featuring a lesbian couple have all felt the force of Mr Mutua's action.

But the former journalist, who is a devout Christian, objects to being called a censor.  Read more >>
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September 7, 2019, 7:25 am
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Fewer People Are Getting Married. The Reason Why Is Stunning, According to Science

September 8, 2019, 5:30 am
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Wait, how much do you make? (Getty Images)

Have you noticed, indeed, that you've been invited to fewer weddings lately?

It might be because you've been known to misbehave when the good wishes and champagne flow.

It might also be because there are fewer weddings occurring. Marriage rates have dipped 8 points since 1990.

Let's turn, then, to the large brains at Cornell University to enlighten us as to why.

Their new study, tantalizingly entitled Mismatches In the Marriage Market, tried to examine what might lie behind the trend toward more people living non-married lives.  Read more >>
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Long scorned in the Bahamas, Haitians living there fear what comes next after Dorian

September 9, 2019, 5:15 am
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First Beraca Baptist Church Pastor Pasterain Sitoir describes sanitary conditions and his account of Hurricane Dorian inside the church, in Marsh Harbour on Abaco Island on Sunday, September 8, 2019. BY AL DIAZ

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND JIM WYSS

Hurricane Dorian, the most catastrophic storm to hit the Bahamas, has upended everyday routines.

On Sunday, the St. Francis Catholic Church, an imposing round structure on a hill in Abaco, was still being used as an emergency shelter. All of its occupants were Haitians and Haitian Bahamians.

It was one of the few churches standing in a Haitian community where many houses of worship either collapsed or were partially destroyed.

“This storm did not carry only houses but ... people too, so many people get killed they don’t have time to pick them up,” said Pasterain Sitoir, 78, the pastor of First Beraca Baptist Church, where more than 200 people took shelter and survived. “In the next couple of weeks this will be a dangerous place to be.”  Read more >>
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Corpses Strewn, People Missing a Week After Dorian Hit the Bahamas

September 9, 2019, 5:21 am
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 A forensics team recovering bodies from a collapsed church in Marsh Harbour, the Bahamas town badly hit by Hurricane Dorian.CreditCreditDaniele Volpe for The New York Times

By Kirk Semple

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — The corpse was lying on its back, dressed in black shorts and a red shirt, arms outstretched, face toward the sky.

There is no telling where the man died, or exactly when, or how. But Hurricane Dorian’s swirling, pounding floodwaters receded early last week to reveal his body sprawled amid the wreckage of a vast shantytown here in Marsh Harbour, the capital of the Abaco Islands.

On Sunday, a full week after the hurricane hit, the corpse was still where it had come to rest.

The extent of the damage here and elsewhere in the Abaco Islands is so great, the work of assessing it so arduous and the Bahamian government so overwhelmed that a full accounting of the missing and dead may not be known for weeks or even months.  Read more >>
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'There is nothing here': The future is uncertain for 70,000 in the Bahamas left homeless by Dorian

September 9, 2019, 5:29 am
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN

(CNN)As the Grand Celebration cruise ship sailed away from the Bahamas on a humanitarian mission carrying nearly 1,500 hurricane evacuees, Ceva Seymour looked back at the hundreds of desperate Bahamians left behind at Freeport Harbour.

"It was difficult for me to see that other people couldn't get on the ship who probably needed to be there more than me," Seymour, 56, said after arriving in Florida with more than a dozen of her cousins and grandchildren.

Seymour, her relatives and all those who stayed behind are among the 70,000 people thrust into homelessness on Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands by the strongest hurricane ever to hit the archipelago nation of about 390,000 residents.  Read more >>
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Bahamas barred from UK’s bloated £14bn budget after Hurricane Dorian batters islands as they’re deemed ‘too rich’

September 9, 2019, 8:07 am
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Foreign aid can go only to countries where gross national income is up to £11,000 per person - in the Bahamas it is £24,000 . Credit: Getty Images - Getty

  Ryan Sabey, Political Correspondent

Several hundred Brits are feared among at least 70,000 made homeless. The death toll stands at 43 but thousands are still reported missing.

However foreign aid can go only to countries where gross national income is up to £11,000 per person. In the Bahamas it is £24,000.

But aid cash has previously been earmarked for projects such as the Ethiopian Spice Girls.

Tory MP Peter Bone said: “The Government should pay out of the aid budget. It’s absurd.”

James Roberts, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It’s barmy. If we insist on spending taxpayers’ cash on international development, emergency aid after a hurricane is a good place to start.”  Read more >>
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Bahamas Tourism Is Open For Business

September 9, 2019, 8:11 am
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By the Caribbean Journal staff

As relief and recovery efforts continue in Grand Bahama and Abaco, Bahamas officials stressed that nearly the entirety of the country’s 700-island tourism economy was open for business.

Indeed, every airport in The Bahamas with the exception of those in Abaco and Grand Bahama have already reopened for commercial and private flights.

“All other airports throughout The Bahamas are open and operational,” the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism said in a statement this week.  Read more >>
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September 9, 2019, 5:07 pm
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Trump claims Bahamians need 'totally proper documentation' to enter US

September 9, 2019, 5:26 pm
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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN

Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump seemed to contradict his acting Customs and Border Protection head Monday over what would happen to Bahamian refugees landing in the US without proper documentation.

Trump told reporters outside the White House that anyone seeking refuge in the wake of Hurricane Dorian "needs totally proper documentation."

In particular, Trump expressed concern over "people going to the Bahamas who weren't supposed to be there."

"I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States including some very bad people," he added, referring specifically to gang members and drug dealers who fled to the islands.

It was not immediately clear what Trump was referring to.  Read more >>
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Tropical Storm Humberto could form from system that has Florida in its sights

September 9, 2019, 6:20 pm
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Tropical Storm Humberto could form out of tropical waves that are being tracked by the National Hurricane Center. (National Hurricane Center)

 By Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel

Tropical Storm Humberto will be the next named storm, and it could form from a new system that popped up this weekend and is projected to move over the Bahamas and Florida.

A second tropical wave that is approaching the Caribbean, and a system forming near the coast of Africa could also become a tropical depression in the next five days.

The system closest to Florida is a set of disorganized showers and thunderstorms north of Hispaniola and east of the Bahamas. Its five day track could bring it over the Bahamas and over Florida and then into the Gulf of Mexico.

The immediate threat of tropical depression formation is prevented by strong upper-level winds, but the NHC puts a 20 percent chance of that within five days.

“Environmental conditions could become a little more conducive for development when the system moves into the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. Regardless of development, this disturbance will produce periods of gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall across the Bahamas through Thursday, and across Florida on Friday and continuing into the weekend,” the NHC said in its 8 p.m. advisory.  Read more >>
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John ‘Chippie’ Chipman dies

September 10, 2019, 5:33 am
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John 'Chippie' Chipman

Legendary Bahamian Junkanooer John “Chippie” Chipman, a cultural icon in The Bahamas, died yesterday.

He was 90.

A family spokesperson said Chipman died in the Princess Margaret Hospital around 4 p.m. from a stroke.

He was surrounded by relatives.  Read more >>
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Making Caribbean Tourism Sustainable — And What It Means

September 10, 2019, 10:09 am
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The Beachcombers hotel in St Vincent was home to a major Caribbean conference on sustainable development.

By Julie Bielenberg
CJ Contributor

ST VINCENT – It was perhaps fitting that the Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism was delayed by a storm.

What was then-Tropical Storm Dorian delayed the beginning of the recent Caribbean Tourism Organization’s 2019 sustainability conference at the Beachcombers Hotel in St Vincent, highlighting the need for a more sustainable — and resilient — Caribbean region.

But what the return of this eminently relevant conference showed was that sustainability is not just about the climate.

It’s about people.  Read more >>
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September 10, 2019, 4:06 pm
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