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The entire country was left without electricity water or phone service there was no way to contact the outside world or the world to reach buddy inside domenico went dark for nearly forty eight hours nobody knew you could even existed anymore eventually the scale of the destruction was evident the nation of domenico would need to be entirely rebuilt. The man leading the Recovery Efforts is the Prime Minister of domenica Roosevelt Skerritt when he took office in two thousand and four he was only thirty one years old at the time making him the youngest head of state anywhere in the world he faces huge challenges right now how to rebuild a country that is in ruins and how to uplift people that are facing their darkest times we came here. Speak to him about what it was like to live during that hurricane the challenges his country now faces rebuilding and also the threat of Climate Change on or island nations such as this roosevelt scare the Prime Minister of domenica talks doubt his era. Mr Prime Minister we have a lot to talk about but a lot of viewers around the world might not know a lot about domenica so i want to share a few things you were the last caribbean island to be conquered by europe primarily thanks to fierce resistance from the local indigenous tribes here eventually if you were colonized this island by the french and english but you gained independence in one nine hundred seventy eight. Youre an economy that was based on export bananas for many years but youve changed the economy a bit and now its up and coming eco tourism here you have no military and the ninety five percent of the population self identifies as black or of mixed race and because of the Volcano Islands here its considered the nature island of the caribbean beyond that what do you want the world to know about domine very peaceful country very welcoming country very hospitable people we have the top five best insights into. The second largest. Leak it will. Have many boiling lakes beautiful foreign fund the. Only country in the caribbean which has national. Trail. From the south to enough to the east from the east to the west country. Black sand beaches waterfalls rivers three hundred sixty five rivers. Only country one of the fewest few countries in the world to boast of the caribbean sorry of local indigenous population. So wonderful country you know forty five percent well put if i was in the country protected by law as Forest Forest reserves. We had one of the. National parks and one top of National Park this was a National Park for forty years in the School Heritage site for twenty. Very days it was a fight small economy davis if i recall supplied many of the caribbean islands we produce. We are pretty. Not very developed but certainly a very pristine and beautiful island. When the eye of the hurricane hit your island what was the moment when you said this is going to be really bad i think from the moment my roof. I said to myself and the. Sense of whats up to friends indicating that when we wake up in the morning were going to see a country device to. The. Fellas its of do we really the hurricanes todays island which in four to five hours moving very very slowly so the moment my roof went away i felt that were going to have serious destruction and. I was pretty good. But i had to face reality. So live in and put an experience in station of i felt the country would have been devastated. After the storm passed the next day when the sun came out and you were able to get out on the streets and see the destruction what did you see and what was going through your mind from the time. I saw the destruction in the neighborhood really. Because this will host and there will be pretty strongly. Most of them recognize and respect and construction cords and. Every hole every house in this area was it was impacted by the hurricane. Every tree down. Telephone lines were down and. My mind started to rescind on other communities they know it out of honorable. Out of communities where you know the houses were not constructed to the construction codes. And i felt like if this area was impacted. We would have a complete national bus station. So i walked from my home town. And as i went along you could to see the device station and meeting people everybodys hope with an impact. And could see do their fair deal with trauma in the eyes of the people and the expression. So i was able to move very early into the city in different parts to look at my family and of course to look at the destruction of just total destruction and i was able to go on to have a cup till eternity to see it and fly it over the country and visit in many villages what i. What i felt would happen on a monday night Tuesday Morning to happen to the country. Complete devastation in every street and every village in the country. As it is it is very painful to see the suffering and anguish people. Flying into the island everything is brown all of the trees are just completely destroyed theres one researcher theres been looking at the destruction hes estimated that one hundred percent of the agriculture has been destroyed on the island and that ninety eight percent of the homes have either been destroyed or damaged such are his correct i recall it was one hundred percent destroyed theres no question about this one hundred percent. Varian trees. For a reason every single tree has been impacted fires or entire forest have been. Completely washed away and of course what ninety five plus percent of homes affected their homes theyll have to be reconstructed completely the. If you will that can be salvaged for new roofs. You may see some of them standing but structurally. They are not solid to have to be demolished. So his character the tourism has been impacted. All of the hotels have been affected adversely when youre out on the streets and you see people homeless what do they tell you and how does it make you feel. Pressured to myself. Because in large measure of days a feeling that they are going to require me to meet with you know i recognise that as a leader a country that is my responsibility people are happy to do life yes but in many instances theyve lost everything. And. We have. You know we have to instill in them the hope the expectation the assurance that if we will together we can make life better for sales with the help of International Community so it it is a Mission People can is very depressing. It is very emotionally draining because you dont know want to see people in that suffering. I cant stop at night because i know that many people who was roofs open skies. You know and when it rains at night one can imagine the did it suffer any people. And. People are still and in shock many of them are still in there getting over it a bit not completely but discuss and will be for us for a long time. You know people are still breaking down into tears every single day. To come to this office to see me. People are still emotionally distressed and the fact is the same people who have to provide the services the nurses a doctor the Police Officers the Public Servants and all of them have lost their homes to their Life Investments you know. Some of them up their properties are not insured and you know so its very very disturbing thing for demand for the emotional state of all people do you have any idea how much money youre going to need to rebuild now after Hurricane Maria. We have invited the world bank to come in to do. Rapid assessment would rely on them to advise us and advise International Community of the. Precise cost of reconstruction is going through but you are talking about hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to build homes to build schools to build hospitals infrastructure seven or bridges washed away it would need to have that money. And we wouldnt print money even though we dont have money. You know we are developing country. With poverty levels because america. Where twenty five percent. We have very limited capacity if any to borrow. We cannot borrow commercial rates so. You know if we need International Help we absolutely. Must is of the International Community and i hope and pray it is that. Is that there will be goodwill among nations and. And. The recognition that they need to come to our rescue and its literally going to come to our rescue. With the. We really need the International Community and to help us in this situation. Just a few days after the storm you chose to get on a plane to go to new york to address the United Nations why we went there to declare an International Humanitarian emergency nominee. And to indicate to the United Nations that our country would need the help of all countries we dont grieve today. We buried yesterday. And i am sure that as i return home to morrow we shall discover additional fatalities as a consequence of these encounters but we also took the opportunity. To lead into coming to know that this discussion on Climate Change and its impact on countries like ours has been going on for too long and in the process of all of these conversations and discussions and workshops and seminars and summits people die in. Peoples livelihoods of being washed away peoples lives lives like there was a being blown away countries are disappearing you know where it is that we have spent all this money to build in this country you know and in a matter of a few hours it is dont to his knees it is flattened before dissenters no order generation had seen more than one category five hurricane in their lifetime in distant you this has happened twice and notably it has happened in the space of just two weeks to deny Climate Change is to procrastinate well sings it is to deny the truth we have just leave it is to mock thousands of my compatriots who in a few hours without a roof over their heads will watch the night descend on dominico in fear of sudden much like us and what the next hurricane may bring. We need to lead it does coming in that we need to help when the help from every single conscientious. Will leader in this country any one of them who would sit in his own country and see the situation in not. A helping hand it would be very very unfortunate for the future of the world we as a country and as a region did not start this war against nugent would not provoke the war. You have any doubt that this was Climate Change. Historical facts and the magnitudes of hurricane will tell us that we see no bitch is washed away we say in the driest spell is taken place no punching i mean ill in many can in these islands you had what you call a dry season and indeed racism is already in and you have sometimes a rainy season all you have is drought so were seeing the change in climate the climate the conditions and every single time youre say in the hurricanes are getting stronger i mean. There was a category four. It was beyond five i was here was a one hundred sixty five. You know what kind of infrastructure could we stand this you know. Which country will be standing and the fact is. We have militarized were island. We just this is a. Place where you go to we could go from one province to annoyed or one step daughter to sequester from the hurricane this is an island and you feel flown over the country and where could this people go to run away from the hurricane they were in shelters the shelters were affected so they could be left home and went to the shelters shelter was impacted theres no way as it would have done so we have no. No reservation to say emphatically that Climate Change is responsible for what weve experienced day in and dominate and we need to acknowledge because if weve not had conflict america and were not making the case only for dominic were going to case for all of the world and especially for developing countries like ours that are going to receive in the brunt of the destruction and devastation from the storms and this terms of the only happening during the Hurricane Season happened outside of the Hurricane Season a few years ago we had a trough system in December Christmas eve. Cause lives cause major destruction so we have no doubt that the Climate Change is responsible for its trends of this argument in a lot of capitals around the world the discussion of Climate Change is theoretical for you is it theoretical or is it practical practical. You know you know it is all saying we have said. It we have started to notice it the exam we know when we have said the exams is the practical situation youve seen it because the streets are good our culture you know whole are going to survive in the next few months and two years were going to reconstruct thousands of homes people are going to reconstruct their Health Centers the hospitals the schools the bridges that been washed only the road was not been clocked you know holy go restore their the private Sector Hotels have been destroyed this is this is all life or labor who you know the forest was part of all because system but there was a bible over we rivers we know the access to them in terms of benefiting from that the entire country had been brought to its knees and so this is a practical situation that we face you know to the point really if you know if they may say so you know if some level of humility the premise of the country was homeless for quite a few quite a few days. You know it tells you about the extent of our vulnerabilities a small island states who are facing the brunt of the wrath of hurricanes and storms largely due to the effects of Climate Change the United States is considering pulling out the paris climate accord. How would that affect your country you know we we do not believe that Climate Change ought to be and i dont object to the debate. Or an academic exercise i said previously we leave in this experience. The folks in florida to tell you the folks in texas will tell you also to do experience and this is Climate Change all hope is that the United States will recognize this. And come back to the discussion to those have some discussions what it really concerns you may have a whole kind of mix of amendments but we absolutely need leadership of the United States. In this discussion without them it would make things much more difficult for conscience because the United States you know it has the results is it has the capabilities. It in many respects it is required to show some leadership in treating and dealing with issues relating to the climatic conditions in the world this isnt the first disaster youve had to deal with in two thousand and fifteen Tropical Storm erika caused a lot of damage here on the island you asked for over six hundred Million Dollars in aid to rebuild after Tropical Storm erika did you get that money. Theyve been coming. Maybe. Half of that. Some of the smoke would have not materialize you know the challenge we have in many situations is that theres a very protracted process of preparing his resources and. In circumstances that i believe the International Community the International Financial systems need to recognize that. The next Hurricane Season next year and if we do not move quickly to rebuild homes and to put in mitigation systems in place is not to go a long time. So the comment was a made must be. Must be robust it is efficiency i recognize in the past realities which were faced and so we got quite a bit of help quite a bit of commitment but these commitments and the money took over a long time to materialize like all countries domenico has a political opposition how do you plan to work with them to move the country forward to reconstruct the country after this tragedy this this reconstruction is going to require absolute nationalist spirit every single Citizen Organization and institution. And theres no room for any partisanship. Any Division Within the country. What we intended as ago and we were discussed is and weve second advice from. Various sources is to put in place a National Reconstruction team and that National Reconstruction team will have representation from all stakeholders the church the Political Part is included in the parliament your position the parliament itself. Unions n. G. O. S the private sector the various by receptive groups the farmers did in local Community Organizations and every single Stakeholder Group will be involved in this National Construction team because it is going to require absolute cooperation and understand in involvement and contribution positive contribution theres no time for negative as people are suffering people need help we rely on International Community energy in this country should be united to build this country and restore their lives and livelihoods or people so then have a part to play it one would have to switch to see how disciplined and mature. We can be as a people as we try to have this very very difficult and daunting task we would build in this country given all of the destruction when you go to bed when you close your eyes what is your hope for demeaning in the future well for the world is not going to bed is the easy though. I leave the office every night after ten oclock and get. My preparation is. That people will still be thousands of them and how do we go about restoring their lives and and giving them the hope to live. And. We were doing some things we know were pretty patient is to provide supplies Food Supplies water to the people which are the depopulation hydrated much of the property. To minimize any potential health risk in the country or do you want to have is a break of some of the water borne diseases in the country so we seeking to manage this. And sharing of the security of the state clear in the rules so we can create access to the community but. The welfare of the citizens and were going to need a lot of help and quickly. And solutions. For citizens we can to improve the Telecommunication Services so people could be in touch with each other because this what this helps in reducing. The levels. Citizens so my appeal to the International Community. Is too big and small mr Prime Minister we wish you and your country all the best in the difficult days ahead thank you for speaking out. Witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on aljazeera. Is quiet the signal is given. Out yet so its safe to walk to school last year the more than thirty minute is in this community in one month the police say this area is a raid zone one of several in some townships and children sometimes a court in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking us to try to take the violence i lost my family looking i live go i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards quite provocative or is it a listen when theyre on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new york care has to address or if you join us on sat im a member of a group of one but we struck up a relationship base is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a. J. 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