A caller to a radio call-in programme recently described the robust discussion surrounding Hurricane Beryl’s impact on Barbados as “storm politics”.There is an intense blame game that has erupted following the passage of the severe weather system. While most of the country’s inland infrastructure was spared the harshness of Beryl’s might, the coastal damage was immense.A significant amount of the south coast’s sandy beaches was eroded or pushed so far inland, some properties and coastal areas were unrecognisable in the aftermath.The Category 4 hurricane went on to devastate islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines with winds of 140 miles an hour, while there were three deaths in Grenada and its sister isles of Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
