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Hurricane Warning Issued Over the Caribbean Islands
A hurricane warning was issued Thursday for St Lucia as Tropical Storm Bret rolled towards the eastern Caribbean island at near-hurricane strength, with violent winds and rain.
The storm was about 320 kilometers east of Barbados on Thursday morning and was moving west at 24 km/h. It had maximum sustained winds of 110 km/h, just below the 119km/h (74mph) winds of a Category 1 hurricane.
The storm was expected to start affecting islands in the eastern Caribbean later in the day, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
A particular aircraft dispatched to investigate the storm on Wednesday found that it had grown a bit bigger, with tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 165km from its center, according to forecasters.
Airports, businesses, schools, and offices were closed in St Lucia and Dominica as forecasters warned of torrential downpours, landslides, and flooding.
Windrush Injustice Exposed
Hundreds of long-term sick and mentally ill people from the Windrush generation were sent back to the Caribbean in what has been described as a “historical injustice”, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Formerly classified documents reveal at least 411 people were sent back between the 1950s and the early 1970s under a scheme that was meant to be voluntary.
Families say they were ripped apart, and some were never reunited.
The UK government said it was committed to tackling the injustices of the era.
A spokesman said: “We recrecognizee campaigning of families seeking to address the historic injustice faced by their loved ones and remain committed to righting the wrongs faced by those in the Windrush generation.”
The revelations – which echo the Windrush scandal, in which hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many from the Caribbean, were wrongly deported – have sparked calls for a public inquiry into the repatriation policy
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