Topic: Hurricane Matthew
Storm-hit islands suffer as Cayman tourism prospers
The extent to which Cayman’s recent tourism boom has come at the expense of its hurricane-hit neighbors is spelled out in a new regional hospitality market report.
‘We have to be ready’: Storm trackers prepare for hurricane season
Storm trackers flew into Grand Cayman on Tuesday on their public awareness tour ahead of the Caribbean’s hurricane season.
Red Cross thanks local hurricane relief donors
Cayman Islands donors contributed more than $13,000 for Hurricane Matthew relief efforts in Haiti through the Red Cross, the organization reported. A five-week campaign raised funds for Haiti after it was struck by the devastating hurricane in early October last year.
Rescued red-footed booby dies at Turtle Centre
Norman the red-footed booby, who was rescued on a British beach and flown by plane to Cayman, died at the Cayman Turtle Centre on Christmas Day, the Department of Environment confirmed Tuesday.
Cayman Water donation helps cholera relief in Haiti
Cayman Water Company has donated US$3,375 to buy 75 water filtration units to help combat cholera and other pathogens at risk of contaminating Haiti’s drinking water in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Matthew, a category 5 storm, hit southwest Haiti on Oct. 4.
4-year-old girl donates birthday cash to hurricane fund
Mandi Parchment celebrated her fourth birthday Wednesday by donating the money for a party to the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Hurricane Matthew Relief Fund for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. Mandi, daughter of Abigail and Sean Parchment, heard about the fund on the radio and from her parents and wanted to help.
Cayman Islands Red Cross raising money for Haiti
The Cayman Islands Red Cross is participating in an international Red Cross Federation effort to raise US$6.9 million for Haiti relief after much of the country was devastated by Hurricane Matthew two weeks ago. The Cayman Islands Red Cross said in a press release that the international federation aims to help 10,000 families over the next 12 months.
CIBC FirstCaribbean donates water filters to help nearly 1 million Haitians
Close to one million Haitians could soon have access to safe drinking water as the charity United Caribbean Trust moves to distribute 300 water filters across communities devastated by Hurricane Matthew. Executives of CIBC FirstCaribbean presented a check for BDS$25,000 (US$12,500) to Jenny Tryhane of the United Caribbean Trust.
Sir John A. Cumber students step up for Haiti
When the staff and students at Sir John A. Cumber Primary School learned of the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew, particularly to Haiti, they immediately sprang into action to do something, however small, to assist those who were affected.
‘Sharing Cayman kind’: Plane packed with 10 tons of goods arrives in Haiti
A Cayman Airways plane packed with 20,000 pounds of goods donated by the people of Cayman arrived Sunday in hurricane-ravaged Haiti.
Cayman’s linemen help get power back on in hurricane-hit Bahamas
Five linemen with Cayman’s Caribbean Utilities Company took off for the Bahamas on Wednesday to help get the country’s power lines back up after Hurricane Matthew passed over the islands, causing an estimated $400 million in damage. Homes were destroyed and power lines pulled down across many of the islands in the Bahamas.
Haiti relief flight rescheduled for Sunday
More than $500,000 worth of supplies, collected in Cayman over three days last week, are scheduled to be flown to Haiti Sunday. The supplies were originally scheduled to be airlifted to Port-au-Prince earlier in the week, but government in Cayman has been negotiating with the Haitian president’s office to make sure the supplies end up in the right hands.
‘We might need another warehouse’: Donations pour in for Haiti relief
In 72 hours, more than 3,000 people in Cayman donated enough baby supplies, food, clothes, medicines and other necessities to fill the warehouse at Cayman Islands Brewery. On Tuesday, those supplies will be loaded on a Cayman Airways plane and flown to Haiti to help the country where at least 500 died in Hurricane Matthew.
UPDATED: Supplies from Cayman pour in for Haiti relief effort
Volunteers in Cayman spent Thursday unloading and sorting donations bound for Haiti and Cuba at the Saxon office on Eastern Avenue in George Town.
EDITORIAL – Hurricane Matthew: Embracing our role as host and haven
Along with the rest of humanity, we in Cayman will send our prayers, empathy and material assistance to the victims of Hurricane Matthew. Cayman has experienced the cataclysmic consequences of a major hurricane at much too near a distance, that is, firsthand.
Flights canceled, Obama issues state of emergency as Florida braces
Cayman Airways has suspended flights to Miami as Hurricane Matthew begins to bring heavy winds and rain to Florida. The Miami International Airport has suspended all service during the storm.
US military takes off from Cayman for Hurricane Matthew relief efforts
United States Marine Corps helicopters took off from Cayman’s Owen Roberts International Airport Wednesday, headed to Jamaica to be ready to move disaster relief supplies into Haiti. Four large U.S. military helicopters landed on Grand Cayman Tuesday, the first of two waves of Marines and U.S. Army personnel.
US military stages Haiti relief efforts in Cayman
United States military helicopters began landing at Owen Roberts International Airport on Grand Cayman Tuesday afternoon as part of a disaster relief program in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
‘Devastating’ Matthew maintains strength as it pounds Haiti
The powerful Hurricane Matthew made landfall in near Les Anglais, western Haiti, as the storm batters the country with life-threatening rain, wind and storm surge.
Jamaica, Haiti brace for ‘catastrophic’ flash floods
As Matthew, a massive category 4 storm, continued turning north Saturday evening, preparations are under way in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba for what could be a devastating hurricane.
Matthew on track to bring damaging wind, rain to Jamaica and Haiti
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UPDATE 9 p.m. Saturday: Hurricane Matthew is stationary, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, about 385 miles...
Matthew now Category 5
Forecasters say Hurricane Matthew will turn to the north and any impact on the Cayman Islands will be minimal. The U.S. National Hurricane Center upgraded Matthew to a hurricane Thursday. Forecasters with Cayman’s National Weather Service say the islands will likely see rough seas of 4 to 6 feet and winds up to 20 mph from overnight Sunday through Monday, but do not expect any major impacts.
Tropical Storm Matthew forms, could become hurricane Friday
Tropic Storm Matthew has formed just east of the Caribbean, about 35 miles southeast of St. Lucia, and the National Hurricane Center predicts the storm could become a hurricane by Friday.
