By Breidy Santiago
This new semester has been quite interesting and I don’t want to say frustrating, but tiring. We lost out Create Caribbean building. We still haven’t found a permanent place to work; however, we have met a few times at Dr. Esprit’s home and at Convent High School. During those times we were able to plan and talk about what is our next step. There is no internet connection and I am still unsure when I will be able to get internet at home to work on the different projects. But, DSC now has internet connection, which we are trying to use to do our project. Unfortunately, the internet is not so reliable because most of the time it is not working.
I am happy to see that as the New Year started things are getting back in place. The topic I am working on, alongside side Tonilia Eli, is economics of hurricanes and its impact on tourism. Dominica was devastated after Maria and it will take a long time before we get back to how it used to be. Many of our business places are gone and the employment level is really high. The tourist sites are destroyed, as well as, the hotel that accommodate the visitors. In this project, we are trying to compare Dominica to the other islands. It can be seen that the other island are recovering faster than us, for example, St. Martin. That is because they still have a “mother land” on which they can seemingly rely and get help from while in the other hand Dominica is independent and has to get back up on its own.
Our topic is part of the larger project we are working on, which is Carisealand. Carisealand is a user friendly platform that allows the sharing of projects, art and information with focus on the environment in the Caribbean. For this project we are trying to add more information to the site.