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Dear Editor,
As Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica with terrifying force, many Antiguans and Barbudans are rightly asking one question: Why weren’t our students evacuated before the storm reached this point?
Several other Caribbean islands, like St Kitts and Nevis, flew their students home.
We’ve known for days that Melissa was intensifying into a monster system, packing winds near 200 miles per hour and threatening catastrophic damage.
Yet our students remain in harm’s way, huddled in a hotel room, hoping for the best while the storm creeps closer inch by inch.
I commend the government for securing accommodation at the Pegasus Hotel, but that’s a temporary fix, not a long-term safety plan. What happens if the power fails, the roads flood, or communication lines go down?
What if the airport shuts down for an extended period? Have we mapped out how and when these students will be brought home once the storm passes?
Evacuation isn’t just about reacting; it’s about anticipating. With ample warning and modern forecasting tools, could we not have arranged for at least some of them to return home before the island went under hurricane warning?
It feels like we’re watching the situation unfold instead of staying two steps ahead.
These are our young people, sons, daughters, future leaders, and their safety must come first.
I sincerely hope that once the storm clears, concrete plans are made to either bring them home safely or ensure they’re secure and supported for the duration of this crisis.
Concerned Citizen,
Antigua and Barbuda
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All you complain about every fucking thing. Me just tyad of reading things on anr that upp and ablp neagra fuss bout straight. All yuh fucking annoying. Everything must be criticized?
Step the fuck back and stop complain.
Concerned Citizen, well highlighted. I thoroughly enjoy reading your letters to the Editor. Much kudos to you 👏🏾
The fact is if Gaston Browne had a family member caught up in Hurricane Melissa he would have pulled out all the stops to get them home before it hit Jamaica 🇯🇲
I read recently that the former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s son got lost somewhere in a desert, and in two, two’s Thatcher sent out a search team and rescue team to locate her son.
Browne fools a lot ah people, but not the discerning and the critical thinkers …
@Concerned Citizen. Stop being a little drama queen. Many people are staying at that and many other hotels and are being taken care of. Since the storm went further to the west, Kingston has reported no major issues and electricity is on to most areas of the city. Our students are fine and are having all kinds of fun as teenagers tend to do.
The why is not important? They did not. What are we going to do now? They are there we are here, and the storm is raging. We cannot talk about what should have, it, done happened
Don’t they have parents and next to kin? How many of the parents actually approached to government for support? What is the back story ? Was it even safe to fly at that time ? How many of the students were actually willing to return since it was voluntary ? Peeping on other
islands when Antigua was the first known to take measures to protect their own ? Give
thanks that where they are is considered safe…. how many would be willing to put up a penny to bring back the students they are so concerned about after the fact ? Let me guess that’s government problem…. are you truly concerned or you just needed a moment? Take a moment to give thanks and pray for their safety rather than use this moment to soap box 📦
Why didn’t you evacuate your family member before the storm?🙄🙄 Who is really responsible?🤔
The why is not important? They did not. What are we going to do now? They are there we are here, and the storm is raging. We cannot talk about what should have, it, done happened
Our PM was too busy partying in Dominica.
Bwoi I can see how dumb some people are, and it always seems to be the supporters of this Government. No rational thinking whatsoever.
People on both sides have students in Jamaica you idiots, so this is not about party affiliation, this is about the kind of uncaring and quite frankly “inept” person we have leading us. That’s the bigger picture here, along with the fact that other islands did the prudent thing, so why don’t we have a leader that actually listens.
I called for him to remove the students since Friday, 4 days before the storm even hit land in Jamaica.
But you know what, you cannot convince a dummy no matter which party they voted for, but it seems ABLP have a lot of them..it’s frightening.
Is it now you all realized that you all had been out smart by Gaston and his insensitivity like he did to the barbudans, holding them at gun point during the aftermath of hurricane Irma to take their lands to sell to rich white folks?
I have been saying to some people , why would you seek shelter where a bomb is about to fall? Is it because that student that spoke to the media has parent with political connections why a blind eye was turn as student leader of the group?
The Bahamas and st Kitts and other countries flew home their people. And that is natural because the magnitude of the storm mean life will not go back to normal to resume class at UWI just now.
The lack of explanation is that we don’t know the financial state of the country under Gaston financial stewardship.
Everything is just not been manage properly when it concerns finances, but this prime minister will make irresponsible spending on unnecessary things then seek loans or tax the citizens mercilessly to make up for his mistake and to bolster his ministry as able to function like a real finance ministry.
It is clearly a gang of looters who got elected to the lottery ticket of the Antigua and Barbuda treasury.