Sentences with phrase «of people on the island»

An upper class that's well off, the majority of the people on the island living in poverty and a middle class that's basically non-existent.

The number of people on the island who have reportedly tried to kill themselves since Hurricane Maria hit the island has more than tripled.

It's been almost a month since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, and municipal water services have still not been restored for about a third of the people on the island.

It has been more than a week since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the American Red Cross is working around the clock with government officials and disaster partners to help the hundreds of thousands of people on both island territories who are suffering right now.

Instead, they argue that the very nature and origin of the universe point to the existence of an intelligent creator, much like writing in the sand would point Robinson Crusoe to the existence of another person on the island.

«A lot of people on the island are becoming a lot more educated about what they eat, and as a result are starting to shift into more organic foods,» he says.

Currently, almost half of the people on the island are still without power, months after Hurricane Maria

A day after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, flooding towns, crushing homes and killing at least two people, millions of people on the island faced the dispiriting prospect of weeks and perhaps months without electricity.

Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's rickety electrical grid, emergency responders are still struggling to treat the immediate health needs of people on the island.

Readers will instantly see how this history continues to haunt us, as the boundaries between the four classes of people on the island (the poor, the mad, the sick and the criminal) are, in the public imagination, as blurred as ever.

The Indonesian authorities raised the volcano alert to its highest level Monday and ordered the mass evacuation of people on the island.

Five months later, the myriad physical and emotional damages inflicted on the island's 1 million residents remain — and 17 % of people on the island are still without power, according to the most recent statistics.

I would make cookies for all of the people on the island and then I would make them pizza.