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Dear [Donor name] Thank you very much for your generous donation to help the TCI victims of Hurricane Ike. I really appreciate your responding to my plea on their behalf. We raised $5,575.00 [in 72 hours] through The iPINIONS Journal, in amounts from $5 to $1000. You’ll be pleased to know that not one dollar of your donation will be subject to… Read more.
Houston, you have a problem: Hurricane Ike is threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, their worst pounding in a generation. [The Associated Press] But, where my compatriots on the Turks and Caicos Island of Grand Turk were completely at Ike’s mercy, Houstonians have… Read more.
Many of you have expressed concerns about your donations to the British Red Cross to help relief efforts in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) getting lost in bureaucratic red tape, or worse. Unfortunately, the TCI has no indigenous relief agency with the facility to take online donations. Therefore, I have arranged with the Director… Read more.
By all accounts, Hurricane Ike was “the worst natural disaster to hit the Turks and Caicos Islands in living memory”. Therefore, it is a testament to our people’s resolve (and God’s grace) that we weathered its fury with little or no loss of life. Preliminary reports indicate, however, that Ike’s 135 mph winds did considerable… Read more.
Talk about anxiety, I’m dreading reports later this afternoon on what property damage they’ve sustained. But I commend Premier Dr. Michael Misick for ordering the airlift of all intensive care and special needs patients to Miami a few days ago. Because chances are very good that many parts of the country will be without power for an extended period – after Ike (now a category… Read more.
My family and friends in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) can be forgiven for thinking that God has decided to punish them for the sins of our leader, the (dis)Honourable Dr. Michael Misick. Because Tropical Storm Hanna has remained centered over the TCI for far longer than forecasters predicted and has been lashing them with a torrent of rain and… Read more.
