Overview

• Hurricane Beryl intensified rapidly due to record warm Atlantic waters, becoming the first Category 5 storm of the season.
• The storm caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and left over 20,000 people homeless across the affected islands.
• Leaders from Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are urging international lenders to ease financing costs and provide immediate aid.
• The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility will pay $44 million to Grenada, but local leaders say much more is needed.
• The United Nations has requested $9 million in aid to help the 43,000 people affected by the hurricane.