Windsorites with connections to Caribbean nations are concerned about the impacts of Hurricane Beryl on their friends and families. The Category 4 storm, downgraded from a Category 5, passed near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The storm had previously killed at least six people after making landfall in the southeast Caribbean.
Canada urges citizens to avoid travel to Haiti and other Caribbean nations due to Hurricane Beryl Global Affairs Canada (GAC) advised Canadians to avoid travel to Haiti as well as "all non-essential travel to the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Union Island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and to Carriacou and Petite Martinique in Grenada" in a statement issued Tuesday evening. We are very proud of who we are as Jamaicans.
- Sandra Rennie For Juliet Sailsman — operational manager at Saila Vibes Restaurant and Bar in Windsor — the threat of another hurricane brings back memories of her own experiences. "I have experienced [Hurricane] Ivan, and I don't wish to experience another hurricane," she told CBC News. "It was a nightmare.
We lost so many things: animals, neighbours, rooftops blown off. People were just distraught and confused." Sailsman has been in Canada for eight years and some of her family are still based in St.
Elizabeth Parish in Jamaica, where she thinks the hurricane will strike next. "I spoke to my family members there, and they're bracing and preparing as much as they can. But, we all know that God is always in control, so we're just hopi.
