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Bridgetown, Barbados November 8th, 2022 – The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency is hosting its first in-person regional training session since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the Regional Search and Rescue Programme, Disciplined forces from Barbados and Antigua assembled at Arch Hall Fire Academy in Barbados for a week of comprehensive training, as the agency embarks on expansion of the programme to better serve its 19 Participating States.

Bridgetown, Barbados, October 31, 2022 (CDEMA) – The Chair of the Management Committee of the Council of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Ambassador Elma Gene Isaac of Saint Lucia, is pleased to announce the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig as Deputy Executive Director of the Agency with effect from January 3, 2023.

Lieutenant Colonel Craig, a National of Guyana, is a disaster risk management practitioner, with over twenty-five (25) years of military service and more than sixteen (16) years disaster management experience working with community groups, government agencies, and national, regional, and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the local government, health, security, private and environmental sectors.

This webinar is intended to provide a forum for rich and productive exchange among regulators, government ministries, departments, and agencies(MDAs) (who oversee the implementation of legislation and policy), development partners, industry professionals (who understand the practicalities of following regulations) and the private sector. As such, participants will include public-sector representatives (e.g., policymakers, engineers, architects, building inspectors, physical planners, building maintenance officers) from the respective OECS Member States; representatives of regional agencies and development partner organisations; as well as construction and private sector (e.g., banking and finance) professionals from all Member States.
 

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  1. The Caribbean consolidates its partnership for advancing multi hazard early warning systems in the region
  2. St. Lucia’s Sustainable Development Minister, the Honourable Shawn Edward elected as Chairman of CDEMA
  3. CDEMA hosts Geographical Information Systems Training for its Participating States
  4. CDEMA team heads to Suriname to assess the impact of heavy flooding

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