Islands feeling pain from ’cane
Hurricane Irma has cut a painful path of destruction through the Caribbean, which is awaiting the coming of Hurricane Jose. The Caribbean is accessing the damage from Irma, which took lives, destroyed buildings, left hundreds homeless, flooded neighborhoods, and closed airports — hampering relief efforts.
Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin (which share an island), Anguilla, St. Barts, Antigua and Barbuda, U.S Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were among the affected islands.
And there is human destruction in addition to the tropical storms. Looting has been reported in St. Martin and St. Maarten.
Government and disapora-sponsored reliefs efforts are getting under way.
On St. Maarten last Wednesday during Irma, Chandra Seth, hunkered down in her home, posted “My roof gone” on Facebook.
The following day, she noted that there was no water, lights, or local landline telephone service.
Referring to Jose, Seth noted on Friday, “There is another hurricane heading our way tonight into tomorrow. . . please everyone be on the alert.”
United Nations, other international agencies and nations are supporting Hurricane Irma relief efforts in the Caribbean region, part of the close to 50 million people in the powerful storm’s path.
Fashion forward Jamaica
Jamaican fashion designer Glenroy March will display creatives wares of his D’Marsh Couture during New York Fashion Week in “Le Voyageur Spring 2018 — a mobile presentation making its way around Midtown Tuesday .
The fashion displays will be held at Grand Central Terminal from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; in Times Square from 3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.; 34th St. and Eighth Ave. from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and Union Sqaure from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.
For more information on the collections, visit www.dmarshcouture.com.
Caribbean-U.S. roundtable
The great collaboration between the University of the West Indies and the State University of New York is presenting the roundtable discussion”The Third Border: Increasing Opportunities for U.S.- Caribbean Strategic Engagement” at the SUNY Global Center in Manhattan on Sept. 18.
Don’t buy J’Ouvert crime fake news
It’s clear over the years that some media outlets too often link unrelated crimes to J’Ouvert celebration and the New York Caribbean Carnival. And this year, the sad saga continued.
Unchecked and unchallenged, this trend of false reports not connected to the Caribbean Labor Day weekend events scares off spectators, event sponsors and even participants.