{"id":84478,"date":"2017-09-15T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=01b236755ab4ba185cf420ea14486010"},"modified":"2017-09-15T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:00:34","slug":"news-story-hurricane-irma-overseas-territories-minister-visits-the-turks-and-caicos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84478","title":{"rendered":"News story: Hurricane Irma: Overseas Territories Minister visits the Turks and Caicos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Visiting Grand Turk today, the Minister for the Overseas Territories, Lord Ahmad said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m in Grand Turk which is the capital of Turks and Caicos and I\u2019m seeing first-hand, with the Premier, with the Governor, the devastation of Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s parts of Turks and Caicos where it\u2019s really heartening to see that the community spirit has kicked in, and already reconstruction has started. But as you can see around me here in the capital, in some of the more challenged parts of Turks and Caicos right here in Grand Turk, there\u2019s plenty of work to be done. And that means that the military support we\u2019ve been giving, and also more importantly the reconstruction effort needs to kick in straight away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">And that\u2019s the kind of things I\u2019ve been seeing, so thank you for all those who are doing what they\u2019re doing, the military, the <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> teams, but also the government here in Turks and Caicos and the excellent team around the Governor, but equally it\u2019s important that we underline the importance of what\u2019s next, the reconstruction of what is the capital of a great island.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6s7UUIqTObQ\">Lord Ahmad speaking<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/hurricane-irma-advice-for-british-nationals\">government\u2019s response to Hurricane Irma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Ahmad visited the Turks and Caicos Islands to see the reconstruction work starting after the devastation of Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}