VANUATU & NEW CAL: Pre-alert for tropical cyclone Gene
Updated
Vanuatu and New Caledonia are on pre-alert as the destructive winds of Tropical Cyclone Gene move southwest across the South Pacific. It is expected to hit the southern islands of Vanuatu later this afternoon or this evening. In Fiji, Gene has left behind damaged sugar cane crops, a government trying to assess the damage bill, and a meterology service defending its system of warnings.
Bo Hill
Presenter:
Speakers: Jotham Napat, director, Vanuatu Meteorological Service; Rajendra Prasad, director, Fiji Meteorological Service; Peni Sikavou, Deputy Secretary of the Fiji government's Finance and Budget Department
