Bridgetown, Barbados, February 14, 2011 (CDEMA) - Senior government officials of the Eastern Sub-Region under the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) system will meet in Antigua and Barbuda under the auspices of the National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) to discuss the strengthening of coordination for disaster response in their sub-region.
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Bridgetown, Barbados, February 9, 2011, (CDEMA) - The Management Committee of Council (MCC) of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) held its first meeting last Friday (February 4, 2011) in Barbados.
In his opening remarks, the Honorable Charles Savarin, the Chair of the CDEMA Council and Minister for National Security, Immigration & Labour in Dominica, said that the Meeting was “ a critical step in giving life to the deepening of the CDEMA governance process, a key element of the policy context that guided the renaming and restructuring of the Agency.”
Bridgetown, Barbados, February 8, 2011 (CDEMA) – CDEMA through the support of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) is enhancing the mechanisms for notification and dissemination of warning information on tsunami and other coastal hazards to at risk coastal populations in its Participating States.