An estimated 95% of Barbuda’s structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated. “The damage is complete,” says Ambassador Ronald Sanders, who has ...

The island of 1,800 to 2,000 people was “barely habitable,” he said. “It was heart-wrenching, absolutely devastating,” Browne later told CNN. “I have never seen any such destruction.” ...

Irma left at least six people dead, including four on St. Martin ... said fraught relations between Antigua and the smaller island of Barbuda could worsen after the disaster.

Barbuda’s once ... the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos. Ms May said: “No one can fail to be affected by the absolute desperate plight of people in the Caribbean who have been ...

Barbuda, an island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, is relatively flat, with its highest point just 125 feet above sea level. About 1,600 people live on the island, according to a ...

The fate of Barbuda should rest in the hands of the Barbudan people, but now the global community is needed to recognize the distinct island culture and a people whose human rights are being violated.

Even before many people returned, U.S. developers were ... “Events unfolding on the Caribbean island of Barbuda are a microcosm of what is wrong with our world,” David Boyd, a U.N. special ...

Barbuda still very much exists ... that the general perception that's passed around isn't that this island -- and its people -- have ceased to exist. If anything, these people will need the ...

Home to only around 1,500 people, an additional 1,000 workers have now moved into Barbuda, not only to rebuild, but to develop the island in accordance with the ambition of the government ...

Antigua and Barbuda, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny Caribbean island as a powerful Category 5 storm in 2017, the government temporarily evacuated the entire ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm in 2017, the government temporarily evacuated the entire population of ...