In early October, former Winnipeg police chief Devon Clunis was back in his native Jamaica, volunteering with a humanitarian organization to support three schools.

But only weeks after he left, Hurricane Melissa tore through the island, battering the hard-hit western region where he had been working and damaging the very schools he’d just helped.

Now, Clunis — who was in Mexico on business this past week — is waiting for the right time to return.

“We don’t quite have the full scope, but we are in regular contact with the people in those specific areas,” Clunis, who served as police chief from 2012 to his retirement in 2016, told the Free Press on Saturday. “Some are just getting back to school now in some locations. I just saw that some schools are going to have tent schools now, beca

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