World News 14-09-2004 Hurricane Ivan Latest who: Chairman of Cayman Airways, Roy McTaggart what: Describes devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan where: Cayman Islands when: Yesterday snippet: "Hurricane Ivan continued to torment the Caribbean yesterday," says The Independent, "as it swung past the western edge of Cuba, triggering the evacuation of more than a million coastal residents ordered to move to higher ground." "The hurricane had been expected to hit Cuba head on, but the centre drifted west into a sparsely populated area," says the BBC. It is now is moving towards the Gulf of Mexico. But, says The Sun, "residents were urged to take no chances with the hurricane, which has claimed 65 lives". Meanwhile, The Scotsman says "the full horror of Hurricane Ivan`s brutal spree through the British Cayman Islands began to emerge last night as residents reported a killer wall of water submerging the country and `devastation beyond imagination`." "It looks as bad as Grenada," says Roy McTaggart, chairman of Cayman Airways, quoted in The Times, referring to the first island to be hit by Ivan last Thursday where it was reported to have caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. "Hardly any houses are undamaged. There is 8ft to 10ft of standing water in some streets. Cars are strewn all over the place." [... more]

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