Hurricane Dorian: where will the storm hit and what damage will it bring?

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Admin

Dorian is one of the six strongest hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic, but meteorologists are finding its path difficult to predict

Hurricane Dorian is proving a slippery customer. Not only is it one of the six strongest hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic in the past 70 years, but meteorologists are finding its path very difficult to predict because of its wide “cone of uncertainty”. It is impossible to say just where the storm will hit – and with how much deadly force.

Within that fuzzy picture, Dorian has the potential to affect millions in the Caribbean and along the US coast. So what is the current thinking about its path?

Hurricane Dorian: Trump flies to golf club as likelihood of direct hit recedes

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Admin

National Hurricane Center warns of winds and storm surge
Bahamas set to be hit Sunday, US east coast remains on alert

Millions along the US east coast from Florida to North Carolina remained under threat of a deadly strike from Hurricane Dorian on Saturday, even as official predictions for the path of the 150mph monster storm pulled back from from a direct hit on land.

‘Wonderful man and great Republican’: Chris Cline dies in helicopter crash

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Admin

Coal tycoon’s daughter and five others also killed
Donald Trump pays tribute to ‘businessman and energy expert’

The coal tycoon Chris Cline, a major Republican donor, has died in a helicopter crash outside Big Grand Cay, a string of islands he owned in the Bahamas.

In tweets, Donald Trump expressed sympathy for the loss of a “great businessman and energy expert” and said Cline was “a wonderful man and great Republican!”

Online fund for unpaid Fyre festival staff raises tens of thousands

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Admin

GoFundMe receives almost $80,000 for Bahamian workers who lost out in festival scam

Tens of thousands of pounds have been raised for Bahamian restaurant workers whose life savings were “wiped out” in a multimillion-pound fraud by organisers of the Fyre festival.

Maryann Rolle said her team worked round the clock preparing 1,000 meals a day for festival staff but went unpaid when it imploded spectacularly in April 2017.