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Prisoners collect water from a flow at the roadside near the Belle Isle Correctional Facility on Dec. 27, 2013. Belle Isle and some parts of Central Leeward were without water up to yesterday, Thursday, Jan. 2. 2014. (IWN photo)

More rain fell in 5 hours Christmas Eve night than often does in a month

Some parts of St. Vincent received in five hours Christmas Eve night as much rain as falls during an entire month, data collected by the Central Water and Sewerage Authority…

3 Jan 2014 5:46AM

Environment

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves visits a family in Rose Bank where five persons died on Christmas Eve. (IWN photo)

Gov’t to pay for funerals of 24/12/13 disaster victims

2 Jan 2014 7:39AM

As PM Gonsalves toured North Leeward on Dec. 27, 2013, this woman, tells journalist Kenton X. Chance to put her name at the top of the list of persons to receive aid. PM Gonsalves has called for swift action to help the suffering. (IWN photo)

If you lost a fowl cock in Christmas disaster, PM wants to know

2 Jan 2014 7:06AM

Residents of Fancy collect "ration", disaster relief from ECGC on Tuesday. PM Gonsalves says the 24/12/13 disaster as resulted in two SVGs. (IWN photo)

Christmas disaster has created two SVGs — PM

2 Jan 2014 6:27AM

Residents of North Windward bathe in a river on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Water was yet to be reconnected there, one week after the disaster. (IWN photo)

Gov’t should’ve distributed chlorine tablets soon after disaster — MP (+video)

1 Jan 2014 8:12AM

Members of the Thusia SDA church with one of the shelter managers, Ms Mcdowall, center, and a survivor assisting her in Buccament Bay. (DRP photo)

DRP head warns against using disaster relief as ‘election gimmick’

Leader of the fledgling Democratic Republican Party, Anesia Baptiste, has warned against using relief supplies for the 24/12/13 disaster as an “election gimmick”. The DRP said in a release this…

1 Jan 2014 8:00AM

24-12-13 Disaster