PM says people have become post- Beryl heroes
Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves has praised several of the people he said emerged as “heroes” in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl which struck St Vincent and the Grenadines on July 1, last year.
“…extraordinary difficulties, and challenges like Beryl, any disaster- COVID, volcanic eruptions, Beryl- they do something which, if you don’t have a particular historical and comparative focus, you can have difficulties in doing work to begin with,” Gonsalves said.
“Every single natural disaster throws up new players of relevance, and those who hitherto are of relevance, if they don’t accommodate themselves to the changes generated by a natural disaster, they are going to become irrelevant…,” Gonsalves said at a forum at the Holiday Inn Hotel at Diamond where a national after-action review (AAR) forum was taking place.
Naming some of the persons he said emerged as leaders, Gonsalves commented, “In Canouan, a fellow who runs a restaurant named Glen, as soon as the disaster struck, people don’t have access to food, they’re traumatized, Glen began to make soup and pelau and feed people, he came forward immediately. He’s a new player of real relevance, and his relevance has been enhanced because once that has happened other people see that, and they contribute to the restructuring of his own restaurant and make him stronger and better than before.”
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