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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Emotional welcome for J'can hotel workers in Montego Bay

HORACE HINES, Observer staff reporter
Friday, September 09, 2005

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Emotions ran high at the Donald Sangster International Airport here yesterday as family members came out to meet 80 Jamaican hotel workers who had to cut their contract short in the United States because of the destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina.

"When it (hurricane) hit Monday night and the place start tear up and you see things just flat down where Burger King was and KFC you just see the pure ground. There was nothing, nothing to see, road split in two, bridges break. It was horrible, but thank God for life and I am glad I am home but I will go back anytime because I have to eat," said a young woman from Glendevon, St James, who was going on the programme for the first time.


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