"No food, no water in Grenada"

By FRANCIS JOSEPH in GRENADA

In my long career as a journalist I have never covered such a heart breaking assignment as the scene that greeted me Thursday in Grenada, which was hit by Hurricane Ivan on Tuesday. Here in St George's and across this devastated island, the people everywhere have a dazed look in their eyes as they see the total destruction of their homes and business places, and see phone and electricity lines dangling in their once orderly streets. They have no food, no water, no electricity, no communication with the outside world. Cable and Wireless is down, so is ATT and Digicel, and night time brings total darkness with its own horrors. There are only nine telephones working in the whole island, two of these are at the Grenada Grand hotel where guests and media are huddled together in one area as the hotel suffered severe structural damage. In all of St George's there was only one small parlour selling snacks. I have no idea what food the ordinary man on the street is eating, but to give you an idea of the enormity of the situation, shortly after our arrival on Thursday by Coast Guard boat from Trinidad, I paid US$20 for a hotdog and a glass of juice. Yes, you read that right US$20!

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