The government yesterday defended its decision not to evacuate Bahamian medical students from Jamaica as Dean roared into the Caribbean as the first hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season, killing nine persons.

Bahamas Foreign Affairs Minister, Brent Symonette said the government made a decision early last week that it was "comfortable" with accommodations at hurricane shelters offered by the University of West Indies and the Jamaican government.

"[They] would have been sufficient in the event the hurricane had come any closer to Jamaica and we based that on the number of students that we felt where in Jamaica at the time," said Minister Symonette in an interview with The Bahama Journal Monday.


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