{"id":41770,"date":"2019-07-03T23:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=41770"},"modified":"2019-07-03T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:45:15","slug":"amnesty-for-hurricane-david-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/amnesty-for-hurricane-david-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty For Hurricane David Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government says it will grant residency permits to victims of Hurricane David which struck Dominica 40 years ago.<\/p>

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Cabinet reiterated its earlier decision that those children who were brought to Antigua in 1979, following the destructive passage of Hurricane David, are to be treated in a special way by the Immigration Authorities.<\/p>\n

They are to be granted a residency permit and allowed to demonstrate, by way of school records since coming to Antigua, that they form a part of this special cadre of youth from 1979.<\/p>

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Cabinet said these men and women are essentially stateless people and that condition is unacceptable to the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>

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Hurricane David, a Category 5 hurricane and one of the deadliest of the latter half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Packing winds of 150 miles-per-hour the hurricane pounded Dominica for six hours from 9:00 am on August 29, 1979.<\/p>

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Thirty-seven people were killed and an estimated 5,000 were injured. Three-quarters of the population of 75,000 were left homeless. Many people slept in the open or huddled in homes of fortunate friends and neighbours for weeks or months to come.<\/p>\n

The economy was totally destroyed, roads and bridges were blocked or swept away. Communications to the outside world was maintained only through Fred White\u2019s battery operated ham radio until links were restored.<\/p>

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The government says it will grant residency permits to victims of Hurricane David which struck Dominica 40 years ago. Cabinet reiterated its earlier decision that those children who were brought to Antigua in 1979, following the destructive passage of Hurricane David, are to be treated in a special way by the Immigration Authorities. 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