Puerto Rico Power Outage Leaves Almost Entire Island in Dark December 31, 2024 By Jim Wyss Nearly all of Puerto Rico was without power Tuesday after a widespread failure in the fragile electricity grid triggered an...
Hurricane Beryl Triggers Record Payout for Caribbean Insurer July 11, 2024 By Jim Wyss Hurricane Beryl’s path of destruction through the Caribbean last week triggered a record $44 million payout to the nation of...
A Week After Fiona, Just Over Half of Puerto Rico Has Power September 26, 2022 By Jim Wyss A week after Hurricane Fiona swiped Puerto Rico, causing catastrophic flooding and knocking out power to the entire island of...
Puerto Rico Begins Restoring Power After Storm Snuffs Grid September 19, 2022 By Jim Wyss Power is slowly being restored to parts of Puerto Rico Sunday after Atlantic storm Fiona clipped the island as a...
Death Toll Soars from Haiti Earthquake; U.S. Deploys Search and Rescue Teams August 16, 2021 By Jim Wyss and Ezra Fieser The U.S. deployed search and rescue teams to help find survivors among the debris of collapsed buildings in Haiti as...