10/07/2024  Caribbean braces for economic punch after season's deadly first hurricane

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Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it left a trail of destruction on Jamaica and islands of the eastern Caribbean.

"There is no doubt this disaster will have a major impact on Grenada's economic situation," Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told a briefing on Tuesday. "We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild."



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