Hurricane

Abstract

The first event that would bring Grenada to the world stage again after the invasion of Grenada was Hurricane Ivan. Ivan hit Grenada on September 7, 2004, wiping out the emergency communications center, snapping nutmeg and cocoa trees, ripping roofs off buildings, damaging or destroying nearly 90 percent of the buildings on the island, and devastating the agricultural and tourist sectors alike. Nearly 60,000 of about 100,000 people on the island were left homeless. The Parliament building, the Governor’s Residence, the courthouse, the airport that had been the object of such contention: none was spared.