Message: The islands of The Bahamas and Haiti suffered severe impact from the passage of Hurricane Matthew, the 5th named Hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane season. As a result, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) through the Regional Response Mechanism (RRM) facilitated the coordination and deployment of four (4) regional specialized response teams to provide operational support and damage/needs assessments in the most affected areas in Haiti and The Bahamas. To this end, a CARICOM Operational Support Team (COST) was deployed to Haiti and 3 Rapid Needs Assessment Teams (RNATs) were deployed to The Bahamas. The RNAT teams were re-deployed on Thursday October 14, 2016.