Fayval Williams

When she got there, there was a lady and she says, come with me.

Let me show you.

This is where my house used to be.

And you go, where?

It's like right here.

There was nothing in the space.

It was all gone.

You saw persons just sitting and looking off into the distance, wondering what's next.

I found myself just hugging people, assuring them that the government would take steps to help them to rebuild.

We are in the belt, the hurricane belt.

There isn't much we can do to change that.

But what we can do is to take the steps to ensure that we have access to financing

We all realize that hurricanes are inevitable and we can't just sit here and hope to, you know, go hat in hand afterwards seeking support, that we had to be proactive.

And I recall Minister Clark coming to Parliament.

With the map, with the grid.

Minister Clark explaining to the Parliament and by extension the people of Jamaica this catastrophe bond, why it didn't trigger.

Minister Clark saying just because it didn't trigger is no reason not to continue to have it.

It's an insurance policy.

It was on the tongues of everyone.

There are all kinds of interviews on radio and so on, articles written in the paper.