KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, saying that he has over 4,000 houses to repair or build,  is pleading with contractors to apply for work with the government to repair buildings across St. Vincent and the Grenadines damaged by Hurricane Beryl in July.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Citizens in Jamaica whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Beryl, will on Monday, start recovering a grant from the government.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has signed a US$45 million agreement with the World Bank as the authorities continue their efforts to strengthen the country’s flood adaptation and resilience.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Tropical Storm Ernesto, which is expected to become a hurricane by Wednesday, is gaining strength as it passes just south of St. Kitts-Nevis on Tuesday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said.

Tortola, British Virgin Islands – The Government Of The British Virgin Islands Has Pledged Us$400,000 To Assist St Vincent And The Grenadines And Grenada Following The Impact Of Hurricane Beryl.

KINGSTOWN, ST. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says electricity should be restored on certain sections of Canouan and Mayreau within the next two weeks, as efforts continue to deal with the aftermath of the damage caused by the powerful Hurricane Beryl on July 1.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Ministry of Infrastructure on Thursday launched an EC$7 million (One Ec dollar=US$0.37 cents) project on the islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique aimed at cleaning up and getting rid of debris caused or created by Hurricane Beryl which ravaged the housing stock and the environment of these islets when it battered the southern Caribbean on July 01.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Caribbean countries are awaiting a response from the United Kingdom government to their request that London back a “Marshall plan” to rebuild their devastated countries following the passage of Hurricane Beryl on July 1.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Leaders of the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Tuesday toured the islands in the Grenadines devastated by Hurricane beryl when it made its way through the Caribbean on July 1.

BELMOPAN, Belize - Hurricane Beryl, which broke the record as the earliest major hurricane on record to form in the Atlantic in July, woke the region up to a stark reality: In the current environment created by accelerated climate change, strong hurricanes can rapidly form very early in the season, displacing entire communities and devastating the livelihoods of thousands in the blink of a hurricane’s eye.

Hurricanes are powerful forces of nature that can become extremely destructive events. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), hurricanes start by sucking heat from tropical waters. They form over the Atlantic ocean then move through tropical waters picking up more heat which creates low pressure underneath causing air to rush into it. The rising air cools resulting in clouds and thunderstorms. All of this movement creates wind that can reach calamitous speeds.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Tuesday said it will launch the Sargassum Innovation Quest aimed at harnessing the potential of the sargassum biomass and improve the resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)