Articles by Jim Wyss

Puerto Rico Power Outage Leaves Almost Entire Island in Dark

Nearly all of Puerto Rico was without power Tuesday after a widespread failure in the fragile electricity grid triggered an island-wide blackout. The outage began at 5:30 a.m., leaving about 1.3 million of Puerto Rico’s 1.4 million customers in the …

Hurricane Beryl Triggers Record Payout for Caribbean Insurer

Hurricane Beryl’s path of destruction through the Caribbean last week triggered a record $44 million payout to the nation of Grenada from a regional catastrophe insurance fund. The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, or CCRIF, said it will be paying …

A Week After Fiona, Just Over Half of Puerto Rico Has Power

A week after Hurricane Fiona swiped Puerto Rico, causing catastrophic flooding and knocking out power to the entire island of 3.1 million, just over half of the US commonwealth has electricity, officials said. As of Sunday, power had been restored …

Puerto Rico Begins Restoring Power After Storm Snuffs Grid

Power is slowly being restored to parts of Puerto Rico Sunday after Atlantic storm Fiona clipped the island as a Category 1 hurricane, knocking out electricity to the entire US territory and causing “catastrophic damage,” Governor Pedro Pierluisi said. Packing …

Death Toll Soars from Haiti Earthquake; U.S. Deploys Search and Rescue Teams

The U.S. deployed search and rescue teams to help find survivors among the debris of collapsed buildings in Haiti as the death toll soars from Saturday’s massive earthquake. At least 1,297 people were killed after the 7.2-magnitude quake struck off …