Bridgetown, Barbados , March 12th, 2013 (Barbados Advocate) - Some 160 persons from eight countries across the region have taken part in the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training programme being offered by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).
Bridgetown, Barbados, October 16, 2012 (Barbados Advocate) - The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)is fully supportive of the United Nations ‘Step Up Campaign for Disaster Risk Reduction’ which seeks to increase awareness among the vulnerable groups.
National disaster coordinators and senior government officials from Barbados and across the region are better equipped to respond to natural disasters and hazard impacts in their respective jurisdictions.
Word of this has come from a senior official at the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) whose department recently facilitated the second annual consultation of officials of the Central Sub-Region of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency's (CDEMA) system, which recently came off on May 8 and 9 at the DEM's, Warrens headquarters.
Bridgetown, Barbados, February 14, 2012 (CDEMA) – The second annual consultation among senior government officials of the Eastern Sub-Region of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) system convened today in Antigua and Barbuda under the auspices of the National Office of Disaster Services (NODS). The two day consultation, February 14 and 15, 2012, brings together National Disaster Coordinators and Permanent Secretaries from Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis and the Virgin Islands as well as the Deputy Governor of Anguilla.
Bridgetown, Barbados, February 14, 2012 (CDEMA) - Cuba and CDEMA have begun discussions on advancing disaster risk reduction cooperation agreements. This announcement was made today by Mr. Jeremy Collymore, Executive Director, CDEMA following a meeting at the CDEMA Coordinating Unit with Her Excellency, Lissette Perez, Cuban Ambassador to Barbados.
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Coordinating Unit is pleased to announce the offering of the CARICOM/Brazil/FAO Disaster Risk Reduction Grant.
At a Summit convened in Brazil in April 2010, leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil agreed to pursue greater cooperation in a number of areas, including Disaster Management and Civil Defence.
Message: The outer bands of Tropical Storm Tomas have begun to impact Jamaica and Haiti. Hurricane warnings are in effect for Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Situation: At 5.00pm, November 4, 2010, the centre of the storm was located at latitude 16.6 north and longitude 76.0 west, which is about 110 miles south southeast of Kingston, Jamaica and 280 miles west south west of Port-au Prince Haiti. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph and tropical storm winds extend outward up to 120 miles mainly to the east of the center.
Message: Regional Response Teams on the ground providing support to Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Event Tomas impacted the CDEMA Participating States of Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines between October 29 and 31, 2010 and caused significant losses and damage to Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Excessive rainfall and high winds have resulted in damage to the housing stock, agriculture sector, road infrastructure, downed power lines and disruption to the utilities sector.
Message: Tropical Storm Warnings in effect for Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. Dominica under Tropical Storm Watch.
The Situation: Tropical Storm Tomas, the nineteenth named storm of the season formed this afternoon, October 29, 2010 southeast of the Windward Islands.