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Article: TOURIST ISLAND IN RUINS AFTER HURRICANE.
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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A light aircraft lies upside down and split in half at San Pedro's airport, the entrails of roofless houses gape up at the sky, and the streets of this Belizean tourist resort are littered with the remains of homes, snapped telephone poles and torn electricity cables. A third of the 9,000 residents of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye were left homeless after the coral-fringed Caribbean island in the former British colony bore the brunt of a fierce onslaught from Hurricane Keith, reports CANA-Reuters ...
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