Caribbean islands floods

A low-pressure zone that stalled in the western Caribbean during June brought torrential rains to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

In the Dominican Republic, the resulting floods caused three deaths and the evacuation of about 11,000 people, with more than 3,800 houses damaged. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, flooding and mudslides left 28 dead and more than a thousand families in shanty towns and camps homeless once again.