{"id":31824,"date":"2019-05-20T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=31824"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:04:08","slug":"apua-pulls-the-plug-on-barbuda-hurricane-victims-at-barrymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-pulls-the-plug-on-barbuda-hurricane-victims-at-barrymore\/","title":{"rendered":"APUA Pulls The Plug On Barbuda Hurricane Victims At Barrymore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The plight of the Barbudan evacuees continues when their shelter and living accommodation were plunged into total darkness.<\/p>
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Many were reportedly forced to seek searchlights, lamps and candles.<\/p><\/div>\n

Leaked information to the media of an official plan to evict the remaining Barbudan residents in the refurbished Barrymore Hotel, last Wednesday, May 15, may have forced the authorities to hold back.<\/p>

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However, last Friday, May 17, the electricity supply to the premises appeared to have been stealthily suppressed.<\/p>

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Occupants who reportedly usually took cue from the auxiliary electricity generator of a nearby business enterprise, became suspicious that something had occurred when they did not hear the operating sound of the generator.<\/p>\n

They subsequently learned that personnel of the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) without detection or warning had entered the premises and suppressed the electricity.<\/p>

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The authorities may have learned from their ‘Booby Alley’ experience, where residents bonded together to prevent similar action.<\/p>\n

Many residents were said to be in dire need as they tried to put their lives back together.<\/p>

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The dreadful situation developed following a trail of destruction left by hurricane Irma on September 8, 2017.<\/p>

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Cognizant of their plight, the Gaston Browne administration moved swiftly into mitigation.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath and assessed destruction, the administration declared the island a disaster area, forcing the evacuation of the residents to mainland Antigua.<\/p>\n

While most of the sheltered evacuees were reported to have returned to the sister-island, some eleven indigent families remain in the shelter.<\/p>\n

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