PHILIPSBURG--Residents are called by government “to come together, to stop, pause, and reflect” for two minutes on Thursday, September 6, on the survival and hurdles surpassed in the year since Hurricane Irma, a monster category-five storm, caused widespread devastation on the island.
Precisely at 9:06am on September 6, government urges all schools, businesses and government entities to stop and reflect for two minutes.
All organisations are requested by government to use the time leading up to September 6 “as a teaching moment. … We should come together and share that which sustained us all.”
“We overcame the seemingly insurmountable together. We have to reflect on lessons learnt, battles won, challenges we overcame, and the disappointments and fear we have conquered,” a government statement stated on Tuesday.
The two minutes of reflection are “to remind ourselves that indeed it is possible to rebuild better and stronger, as we did after Hurricane Luis 23 years before.”
Government plans to honour “our brave, our first responders, the many unsung heroes, ourselves and the ones we lost during the cataclysmic weather phenomenon known as the worst hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean to have hit our shore.”
