ROSEAU, Dominica, Sep 01 2015 – St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony on Tuesday visited Dominica where rescue teams are still searching for at least 23 people, including two French nationals.
Anthony, who arrived here on a helicopter, later joined Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on a tour of the devastated country still reeling from the effects of Tropical Storm Erika that has been blamed for 31 deaths so far.
The storm, last Thursday, dumped more than 12 inches of rain within a 12 hour period, but long enough to wash away several homes, roads and bridges and cutting off several communities.
Skerrit, who is expected to brief the nation on Tuesday night on the progress being made since the storm struck, also met with a high-level French delegation including the St. Lucia-based French Ambassador Eric De La Moussaye and the President of the Regional Council of Martinique, Serge Letchimy as well as Laurent Prévost, Prefect of Martiniqu.
Letchimy said that three containers (would arrive here on the weekend bringing food, equipment, dry goods and water.
He told reporters that what happened to Dominica is an example of, “climate change violence.”
“It might be a good example to evaluate the losses and take this particular example in the case of the COP 21 Paris meeting to clearly show that countries that have nothing to do with climate change, that are not initiating this climate change, are the worst suffering from it,” he added.
