Family sleep in flooded home with no roofpublished at 17:09 GMT
Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter
Image source, Kabien WatsonI’ve been speaking to Kabien Watson, who runs a beauty business in the Santa Cruz area of St Elizabeth, which has been devastated by Hurricane Melissa.
Kabien was at home with her young children when the roof was ripped off their house. It was “extremely traumatic,” she tells me.
But now she is staying in her flooded house, without a roof, because she feels the public shelter is “too dangerous.”
She tells me: “We are still at home now. Even though our house is flooded and has no roof. The shelters are not safe for my kids. The beds are too close to random men. There aren’t separate areas for kids, men, women and adults.”
As a reminder, we just heard from the country’s local government minister who says the shelters, which currently house around 13,000 people, will remain open.
