KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 9, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has slammed the government for its silence during Saturday’s tsunami alert issued for more than a dozen countries, including Jamaica, calling it a “gross dereliction of duty”.
On Saturday, a magnitude 7.6 quake rattled the Caribbean Sea about 130 miles off the coast of the Cayman Islands, setting off tsunami alerts along the coasts of the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Bahamas, Belize, Haiti, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
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