Hurricane Irma: tornado warning issued for Florida amid record rain– latest updates Read more“We weren’t late, we pre-positioned a ship in the Caribbean for the hurricane season,” Fallon said. “It wasn’t by chance that Mounts Bay, a huge 16,000-ton aid ship with marines, with helicopter, with palettes of aid was in the Caribbean. The Conservative Tom Tugendhat and Labour’s Stephen Twigg, who chair the foreign affairs and development committees respectively, wrote on Friday that the British response “requires improvement” and said that it demonstrated an “apparent lack of forward-thinking”. Fallon rejected the criticism, saying that British troops and police had been deployed to restore law and order on the British Virgin Islands after reports of looting. Irma's destruction: island by island Read moreFive hundred British troops have been sent to the region, with 120 stationed in the devastated British Virgin Islands.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2017 09:35 UTC