St. Vincent Resilience Network Working Group

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Tue, 2013-12-31 21:10 — mdmcdonald

This working group is focused on discussions about resilience in St. Vincent.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about resilience in St. Vincent.

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Tallying Losses, St. Vincent Begins Repairs After Deadly Flood

Tue, 2013-12-31 21:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

iwnsvg.com - December 26, 2013

Thomson Reuters Foundation - Inter Press Service - by Desmond Brown - December 30, 2013

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Dic 30 (IPS) - Ralph Gonsalves fought to hold back tears as he shared how his cousin was killed the night before Christmas.

Raymond Gonsalves was buried alive when a slow-moving, low-level trough dumped more than 400 mm of rain on this island in a less than 24 hours and triggered massive flooding and huge landslides.

"People have lost their lives; families are suffering. I was with a family which lost five in one household," Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, told IPS.

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