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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Monday | July 18, 2005

Forced evacuation
THE PRIME Minister's announcement in Parliament last week about the forced removal of persons living in disaster-prone areas was set in a context of developing an education policy to achieve this objective.

A barrage of storms
ONE OF your reporter's first big breaks came in covering a Gulf Coast hurricane. Hurricane Carla made landfall in mid-September 1961, between Port O'Connor and Port Lavaca, Texas. She was a huge and dangerous Category Five storm - Dan Rather















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