disaster management

  • Photo of CDEMA Head calls for greater investments in the natural environment to prevent disasters

    CDEMA Head calls for greater investments in the natural environment to prevent disasters

    Executive Director, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Mr. Ronald Jackson, says that although the Caribbean is one of the most hazard- prone regions of the world there are steps that can be taken to prevent the hazard impacts from becoming disasters and minimize the level of human losses. The key to achieving this, he opined is reducing the vulnerabilities…

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  • Photo of CDEMA Head wants Environmental Investments to Prevent Disasters

    CDEMA Head wants Environmental Investments to Prevent Disasters

    The International Disaster Database, Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, has found a threefold increase of natural disasters from the period 1980-90 to the last decade (2000-09). The scale of these disasters has been expounded by the increased rates of urbanization, deforestation, environmental degradation and climate change. Not only have these caused extreme economic damage, but also a huge humanitarian…

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  • International Development Partners Invest In Caribbean Disaster Risk Management

    Bridgetown, Barbados, July 16th, 2015 (CDB) – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has joined forces with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom to strengthen the sustainable development agenda of CARICOM states. Through the USD24 million (mn), Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF), CDB has for the…

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  • Photo of New approaches to managing disaster focus on resilience

    New approaches to managing disaster focus on resilience

    UNITED NATIONS, Friday June 19, 2015, IPS – Natural disasters have become a fact of life for millions around the world, and the future forecast is only getting worse. From super typhoons to floods, droughts and landslides, these events tend to widen existing inequalities between and within nations, often leaving the poorest with quite literally nothing. In 2013 alone, three times…

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  • Photo of Caribbean and Central American countries formalize partnership for catastrophe risk insurance

    Caribbean and Central American countries formalize partnership for catastrophe risk insurance

    Washington, USA, April 18th, 2015 – The Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN) and CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) signed today a memorandum of understanding that enables Central American countries to formally join the facility to access low cost, high quality sovereign catastrophe risk insurance. During the ceremony, CCRIF…

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  • Photo of Two Disaster Risk Reduction Projects funded through CDB programme launched in Jamaica

    Two Disaster Risk Reduction Projects funded through CDB programme launched in Jamaica

    Community-based disaster risk management is a critical and essential part of the process of building a nation’s preparedness and resilience to disasters. This was the message from the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Director of Projects, Michelle Cross Fenty, as she launched disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation projects in two parishes in Jamaica. The two projects are being funded…

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  • Photo of Caribbean now has facility for disaster training

    Caribbean now has facility for disaster training

    A Caribbean Training Centre, warehouse and the Regional Coordination Centre are all now housed with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency’s (CDEMA), new eight million dollar headquarters, which was just launched at Resilience Way, Lower Estate, St. Michael. Executive Director of CDEMA, Ronald Jackson, said the Centre, would focus mainly on the delivery of standardised training, even to the Master’s…

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  • Regional Seismic and Tsunami Risk Workshop

    Bridgetown, Barbados, March 2, 2015 (CDEMA) – The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in association with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Jamaica and with the support of the Governments of Chile and Spain under the Chilespana triangular cooperation, will host a Regional Seismic and Tsunami Risk Workshop from March 3rd -4th, 2015 at ODPEM''s Office in…

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  • Photo of CDEMA Head meets President Ramotar

    CDEMA Head meets President Ramotar

    Guyana’s role in the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) was the topic of discussion when President Donald Ramotar and Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon met with the agency’s Executive Director, Ronald Jackson at the Presidential Complex on Wednesday. In an invited comment to the Government Information Agency (GINA) of Guyana , Jackson said it was his…

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  • Photo of Region warned to be prepared for massive earthquake

    Region warned to be prepared for massive earthquake

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 13, CMC – The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is warning the region to “move expeditiously” towards building resilience amid predictions of the Caribbean being hit with an earthquake with a magnitude of eight or larger. “We must develop, legislate and enforce Building Codes using up-to-date seismic hazard…

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