‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastation

Homes flattened, apocalyptic scenes and at least four dead as St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada try to recover

This should have been a week of celebration in the Caribbean country of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). The annual Vincy Mas carnival, which attracts thousands of tourists, had advertised a packed schedule of costume parades, soca competitions, and beauty pageants.

Instead, the Vincentian population is reeling from what the country's prime minister has described as the utter devastation" wrought by Hurricane Beryl, which ravaged the multi-island country and its eastern Caribbean neighbour Grenada.