Might have noticed that a couple of British channels (Sky in particular) have been baiting the government flipping between asking why the british should aid a "rich island" like the BVI and yelling about slow response. In any wide spread disaster people are gonna bitch and the news media believes it is their job to stir the pot to get ratings.

The Brits had an LCD in Anguila within 24 hours of the storm passing and troops flown in within 36 hours. The BVI had troops on the ground within 12 hours of the airport being declaired safe. It takes more than 5 or 6 days to load a ship full of provisions and sail it 3000 miles.

The problem is NOT supplies. The dock at Port Purcell is loaded with provisions provided by volunteers from PR to the point that yesterday they were turning away boats. The problem has been distribution and that is the result of poor or no planning by the DDM. They have always concentrated on getting everyone to safety for a tsunami or hurricane and that did result in a very low fatlity ratebut they failed to plan for post disaster services.