Hurricanes: Dominica Rebuilds (One year on from Irma and Maria)

UNDP’s Luca Renda describes the devastation caused in the Caribbean during the 2017 hurricane season and the efforts being made to rebuild Dominica.
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Irma and Maria were “Category 5” hurricanes, described by the US Government’s National Hurricane Center Website, as winds reaching 157 miles per hour or higher, during which “catastrophic damage will occur”. Irma reached record-breaking sustained speeds of over 183 mph, longer than any other Atlantic hurricane on record.
The most severely affected nations were the two-island State of Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica, but many other Caribbean islands suffered damage, including Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands.
Haiti and St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Maarten as well as Cuba; the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, were also impacted.
On 6 September 2017, Antigua and Barbuda was battered by Irma, the first of the two mammoth Atlantic hurricanes tearing westward along Hurricane Alley, the name for the body of warm water that stretches from the west coast of northern Africa to the east coast of Central America and the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Dominica also saw 90 per cent of buildings destroyed by the storms, affecting over 70,000 people.