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The European Union-funded effort to refurbish and stock emergency shelters around the territory is music to our ears. It was also a long time in coming. When Hurricane Irma struck …
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The final emergency shelter list issued for this year looks fairly different than usual: There are fewer shelters included, with no building listed for the Road Town area, and two …
The Department of Disaster Management has released an “interim” list of shelters that are available for use in case of an emergency during this month and next. Last week, the …
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A week into the 2018 hurricane season, government has not yet released an updated list of emergency shelters, despite past promises from public officials that those details would be provided …
Shelter residents at the Multi-purpose Sports Complex had sat in folding chairs outside the building for about six months, waiting to find long-term solutions to their housing problems. Today, the …
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