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Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister is pleading for debt relief to help rebuild from Hurricane Irma, which decimated the tiny island of Barbuda and forced the evacuation of its entire population.
Prime Minister Gaston Alphonso Browne tells the U.N. General Assembly that “for the first time in over 300 years, there is no permanent resident of Barbuda.”
The Category 5 storm wrecked virtually every building in Barbuda. Its 1,500 residents left for Antigua.
Browne says, “everything that meant anything to the inhabitants had to be left behind, their homes, their possessions, their history.”
He said it would cost $250 million to rebuild, about 15 …
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