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Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs gives Keynote address at CDEMA | SOUALIGA NEWSDAY

December 9, 2019

Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs gives Keynote address at CDEMA | SOUALIGA NEWSDAY
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Prevention and mitigation

Preparation

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The actual disaster during which not much can be done.

Response – this involves among others, rescue; first aid, firefighting, evacuation and relief, and the assessment of damages

Recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction – which begins with clean up, restoration of services, etc. while at the same time it offers the opportunity to rebuild, rebrand and reset priorities and be ready for the next hurricane season.

Establish a Rapid Response Team for search and rescue that can be deployed in advance of a hurricane hit or immediately thereafter.

Most, if not all our governments suffer from financial constraints, which are sometimes chronic in nature. Our annual budgets often do not contain allocations for Comprehensive Disaster Management. Budgeting for disasters should therefore be a must for all of us. We might even want to consider a Common Disaster Fund for the Caribbean to which every participating territory contributes annually, much in the same way as our people are known to practice the susu or pardner hand.

Joint Caribbean Disaster Insurance:

Pooling of Human Resources e.g. Police and/or Security personnel, teachers, doctors, nurses, and other professionals.

Establish a Regional Reporters Corps to back up local media practitioners and transmit accurate reliable news reports that give a more factual rather than sensational account about the disaster to the outside world.

Hurricanes and weather patterns should be incorporated into our school curricula as part of Environmental or Nature Studies, with a clear objective of not only imparting knowledge about our climate, but also of raising awareness from early about the hazards we face annually.

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