O'Brien to invest $1.4m after Dominica hurricane damage

A spokeswoman for his mobile phone group Digicel told The Sunday Business Post it hoped to work with the Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit to make Dominica 'the first climate-resilient nation of the climate change era'

Digicel rebuilding its Dominica services after hurricane. Pic: Getty

Irish entrepreneur Denis O’Brien is investing $1.4 million to tacklethe impact of climate change in Dominica in the wake of Hurricane Maria which devastated the 750 square kilometre Caribbean island.

A spokeswoman forhis mobile phone group Digicel told The Sunday Business Post it hoped to work with the Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit to make Dominica "the first climate-resilient nation of the climate change era”.

The government of Dominica has established a new ...