Us, Dec. 6 -- Jamaica's Tourism Minister Renews Call for Caribbean Resilience Fund After Hurricane Melissa

Jamaica's Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has issued an emphatic call for the creation of a Caribbean Resilience Fund, declaring that Hurricane Melissa has shown-yet again-the scale of vulnerability facing Caribbean economies. Delivering a forceful regional address, Bartlett said the time had come for the Caribbean to "shift from surviving disasters to shaping resilience."

Speaking in the aftermath of one of the most destructive storms in Jamaica's recent history, the Minister described Melissa as "one of the most powerful storms in Jamaica's recorded history," noting government estimates that place the economic impact a...