To discuss the effects of Hurricane Irma for the Windward Islands, there is an additional National Council of Ministers on Tuesday. The Ministers of Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten will then attend the Cabinet meeting.
The European Commission will immediately make available 2 million euros for aid to the Caribbean islands affected by Hurricane Irma. The money is intended to support the recovery of vital facilities, such as health, water and sanitation.
The devastating hurricane Irma was toned down to the category 1 on Monday above Florida. The still very heavy storm has wind speeds of up to 135 kilometers per hour. Irma draws across land northeast of Tampa to the north.
In the islands of Saba and Saint Eustatius, which was also hit by Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, the cleanup and repair work is under way. The roads on both islands are made feasible, the national service of the Caribbean Netherlands reports on Facebook.
Hurricane José has left the Fanse islands of St Martin and Saint-Barthélemy virtually untouched. The hurricane passed north of the islands. The French weather services did provide a warning for a heavy storm.
Hurricane Irma is 145 kilometers away from Key West, Florida, but the US state already recognizes the effects of the vertebral storm that will increase according to predictions.
The authorities in Florida have moved prisoners on the islands (Keys) south of the state to the mainland in connection with the arrival of Hurricane Irma. There are 460 prisoners who were taken to Palm Beach County on Saturday.
Florida has called for 5.6 million people to leave the state in anticipation of the Irma monster crash. That dizzying figure is more than a quarter of the total population.
Hurricane Irma has been drawn across the Sabana-Camagüey archipelago, a series of small islands close to the North Cuban coast. There are no reports about victims.
About seventy injured and patients from St. Maarten's hospital have been transferred to nearby islands, especially to Aruba. From Curaçao and Aruba, one hundred police officers have arrived, who have to end the looting.
Hurricane Irma has once again become a hurricane of the fifth category and has landed at Cuba. According to the American National Hurricane Center, Irma is on Sunday morning (local time) in the United States, where the cyclone will provide more damage.
While criticizing Dutch aid for Sint Maarten, the French rescue services do not contain an inverted word. On the affected islands of Saint Bartholomew and the French part of Saint Maarten, there are a thousand soldiers, firemen and agents active from Saturday.
In the French part of the Caribbean island of Saint Maarten and on the island of Saint-Barthélemy, nine deaths were caused by Hurricane Irma. Seven people are still missing. This is what the French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said on Friday. He said there were 112 injured.
Hurricane Irma has demanded three lives on the American Virgin Islands. The death toll is now thirteen.
The French authorities have downsized the number of victims on the French part of Saint Maarten.
French soldiers and firefighters gather in Guadeloupe. This island becomes the base for help with the islands affected by hurricane Irma.
The inhabitants of Saint Maarten should still take into account heavy rain showers in the coming hours. In some places, it may be 50 millimeters or more, according to the KNMI. The worst storms are over.
US President Donald Trump declared the state of emergency for the American Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the state of Florida in connection with Hurricane Irma.
British billionaire Richard Branson (67) puts out Hurricane Irma in his wine cellar. 'We will retreat in the concrete cellar under the main building,' the entrepreneur and adventurer wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. 'As I know my team, there will not be much wine left when we get out again.'
The eye of Hurricane Irma approaches the Virgin Islands, Wednesday, reports the American National Hurricane Center. 'Irma's extremely dangerous core will soon go over parts of the Virgin Islands, and arrive in the afternoon or evening near or north of Puerto Rico,' said the NHC.
The powerful Hurricane Irma draws on the Caribbean on Wednesday. According to Weatherplaza, the hurricane will soon be the first to hit Barbuda. The island belonging to the state of Antigua and Barbuda will be 'full hit', expects meteorologist Marco Verhoef. In Philipsburg on Sint Maarten the streets are already blank due to the rain preceding the hurricane.
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Hurricane Irma has become a tropical cyclone of the fourth category. This is the second highest level of hurricane, with wind speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour.
William Marlin, Prime Minister of St. Maarten, has asked the Dutch Ministry of Defense to provide military assistance regarding the imminent Hurricane Irma. This is purely a precautionary measure, as there is no immediate threat to this.
The ease with which illegal criminals can be found on Curaçao and other Antilles is 'very worrying'. This is what the departing chief of the Public Prosecutor's Office on Curaçao, St. Maarten and the Caribbean said on Saturday in a farewell interview in The Telegraaf.
Harvey has not yet grown up, but the next threat to North and Central America is already on the Atlantic Ocean to the west of the Cape Verde Islands. The American National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami announced on Thursday that Irma has now grown sufficiently to become the fourth hurricane of the 2017 season.
Holidaymakers must note that they will pay twice as much tourist tax on Mallorca and the other Balearic Islands next year. According to Podemos foreman Alberto Jarabo, the left-wing coalition of the autonomous Spanish region has reached a principle agreement. The details will be completed on Thursday.
Twenty crew members of a Chinese ship have been convicted in Ecuador for years of cell punishment. The authorities previously caught the Chinese in the Galapagos Islands with about 300 tonnes of extinct extinct or endangered species on board, including about 6600 sharks.
Motorists must take into account dense fog in large parts of the country on Sunday morning. At Utrecht the sight in the faucets is sometimes 100 meters.
Vietnam accuses China of attacking and sinking Vietnamese fishing boats in the South China Sea. The attacks took place near the Paracile Islands, an archipelago in the sea.
