Sunday, December 29, 2013

Christmas deluge brings disaster to Eastern Caribbean

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Dec 26 2013 (IPS) - Colleen James arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from Canada two days before Christmas hoping to enjoy the holiday season with her family. Now she’s getting ready to bury her two-year-old daughter and 18-year-old sister.

“I never do nothing wrong. I always do good,” a dazed James told IPS as she looked out across the flood damage occasioned by a slow-moving low-level trough that brought torrential rains, death and destruction not only to St. Vincent and the Grenadines but St. Lucia and Dominica.

"We looked across and saw people floating down a river." -- Curt Clifton



Disaster officials have so far recovered nine bodies and the search continues for three more people reported missing and feared dead.

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