The first time her phone rang, Lenise Georges didn’t believe the news. Her sister and 1-year-old niece were dead, the caller, another niece, said, explaining that their boat had capsized off the coast of Nassau, Bahamas, and that everyone onboard had died.
“I asked her where she heard the news,” Georges, who has lived in the Bahamas for years, recalled. “But I didn’t believe it because I know that Haitians talk a lot.”
So Georges, who was in church and had temporarily left her seat to take the call, hung up the phone and returned to her worship.
