Today is the 1st anniversary of hurricane Irma, which tore through our islands in the BVI and literally crushed us.

Six months after Hurricane Irma tore a path of destruction through the Caribbean, how are UK citizens faring?

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Margarita Aponte and her relatives cleared the road in front of her house with two oxen Sunday, then drove an hour from her devastated hometown in cen

While students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg awaited a lashing from Hurricane Irma, the school's leader fled the state for Atlanta and insinuated in an email to her boss that she remained on campus — going so far as to say things were quiet and that she heard birds chirping. After the storm, USF officials moved to fire USFSP regional chancellor Sophia Wisniewska for incompetence and "lack of leadership," criticizing her departure and alleging that she had hesitated to evacuate students as Irma grew more dangerous.

Four days after Irma, millions of Floridians are still stuck without power in the sweltering summer heat. Those outages have now killed eight elderly people trapped in a Hollywood nursing home without air conditioning, due to circumstances that FPL was warned about at least two days before the tragedy.

Two Syrian refugee sisters living in Georgia, USA, cooked an assortment of Middle Eastern dishes to welcome a group of 40 people affected by Hurricane Irma. Abeer and Nora al-Sheikh Bakri, who fled their hometown of Douma in 2012 before resettling in Georgia in 2016, told Huffpost that they know what it’s like to lose everything, and thus felt "compelled" to help.

Marc Bell says it takes a village. He apparently believes it, because when the SOS Children's Village Florida needed a home during Hurricane Irma, he let the whole gang move into his Boca Raton mansion. Bell said the CEO of the foster children's program called Monday to say the power was out at the home and that 70 kids and more than a dozen adult caretakers had been kicked out of their shelter.

An estimated 95% of Barbuda’s structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated.

Six people are dead and more than 100 have been evacuated to a local hospital from a nursing home that had no air conditioning following Hurricane Irma, the police said Wednesday.

Airbnb is using its online vacation rental marketplace to connect those with a safe space to offer to those in need of temporary shelter during Hurricane Irma.