Hurricane Joaquin Bahamas 2015

One month after Hurricane Joaquin, the Bahamas reconstruction effort is underway but the scale of the challenge is becoming clearer. T&T’s Rowley government unveils its economic programme amid falling oil prices, Caribbean tourism season opens strongly, and the world’s attention turns to Paris as COP21 approaches.

The PNM’s victory in Trinidad & Tobago’s 7 September election brings Dr Keith Rowley to power as Prime Minister at a moment of acute fiscal stress. In the final days of this coverage period, Hurricane Joaquin devastated the southern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 4 storm, triggering a major humanitarian and reconstruction crisis.