After the Storm That Erased It, One Caribbean Island Chose to Rebuild Bigger

Source: International Business Times

Discover Dominica Authority In September 2017, Hurricane Maria passed directly over Dominica and stripped it close to bare. Roofs were gone, forests flattened, roads cut, the green island briefly turned brown. For a small Caribbean nation of fewer than 70,000 people, the storm was the kind of event that often ends a development story before it begins, sending a country into years of patching back toward whatever existed before.