Keith Mitchell on Catastrophe Risk Insurance: Time is Not on Our Hands

<p>In September 2017, the Caribbean was hit by the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Irma’s 185 mile per hour winds left several countries devastated. During a <a href= "http://www.imf.org/external/POS_Meetings/SeminarDetails.aspx?SeminarId=260"> seminar</a> on sovereign debt at the IMF World-Bank Annual meetings, Grenada’s Prime Minister and chair of <a href= "http://www.caricom.org/">CARICOM</a>, Keith Mitchell, said catastrophe risk insurance could help vulnerable countries mitigate some of the risk from increasingly severe weather patterns.</p> <p>Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada and chair of the Caribbean Community CARICOM</p>