Irma’s Aftermath: “For The First Time In 300 Years, There’s Not A Single Living Person On Barbuda”

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Exactly one week ago, Prime Minister Gaston Browne surveyed the damage on his tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda and declared that Hurricane Irma had completely devastated the island and left 90% of all dwellings leveled. Browne went on to say that Irma’s “absolute devastation” meant that Barbuda was “basically uninhabitable” for the 1,800 people who called it home.
Now, according Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States, Ronald Sanders, the entire island has been evacuated for the first time in 300 years leaving “not a single living person on the island of Barbuda.” Per the USA Today:
‘The damage is complete,’ says Ambassador Ronald Sanders, who has served as Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the U. S. since 2015. ‘For the first time in 300 years, there’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda – a civilization that has existed on that island for over 300 years has now been extinguished.’
‘This was a huge monster,’ he says. ‘The island and the people on the island had absolutely no chance.’


This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 15, 2017.