{"id":64575,"date":"2017-10-19T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64575"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T22:23:19","slug":"cen-caribbean-picks-up-the-pieces-after-hurricane-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64575","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Caribbean picks up the pieces after Hurricane Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Island of Anguilla in the Diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba featured in the most recent BBC 2 series,\u00a0<em>An Island Parish<\/em>. It was badly affected by Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<em>The Church of England Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0on 27 September, Bishop Errol Brooks, whom the TV programme described as a \u2018rock\u2019, said the western half of Anguilla had suffered the worst. This is the Methodist area and two of their churches had been \u201creally messed up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of the three Anglican Churches the roof of St Andrew\u2019s Island Harbour had been badly damaged. The winds that blew throughout the day had lifted a sheet or two of the roof in the main church St Mary\u2019s in the Valley, and water had got inside.<\/p>\n<p>While the worship area of the new section of St Augustine\u2019s remained intact the 200-year-old section of the church had been badly damaged. \u201cI do not know where to start,\u201d said the assessor.<\/p>\n<p>Damage was worse on the island of Dominica, where one of the\u00a0<em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>\u00a0films was shot. The roof of St George\u2019s Church has gone and the rectory, where this writer stayed when doing a locum on the island, is badly damaged. Barbuda, a small island off Antigua, had now been evacuated. The island of St Kitts however escaped without any damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/49437\/archives\">Read it all<\/a> (may require subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Island of Anguilla in the Diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba featured in the most recent BBC 2 series,\u00a0An Island Parish. It was badly affected by Hurricane Irma. Speaking to\u00a0The Church of England Newspaper\u00a0on 27 September, Bishop Errol<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64575\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,206,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-latest-news","category-caribbean","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64577,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64575\/revisions\/64577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}