by Sheena Forde-Craigg | Jun 3, 2024 | Top Stories
https://youtu.be/vPSsHZOMPHk?si=h9owdVemML-djiKW On Saturday, June 1st, the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) held a press conference and fair in Queen’s Park. The event kicked off the 2024 Hurricane season. (BGIS) Barbadian residents have been told that...
by Government of Barbados | May 24, 2024 | Ministry News
(Department of Emergency Management) The Department of Emergency Management (DEM), in association with Sagicor General Insurance Inc., will host a DEM & Sagicor Hurricane Awareness Open Day on Saturday, June 1, in Queen’s Park, Constitution Road, St. Michael, from...
by Sheena Forde-Craigg | May 6, 2024 | Top Stories
Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams, greets the Department of Emergency Management’s (DEM) Deputy Director, Captain Robert Harewood at this morning’s opening of the two-day Exercise Tradewinds 2024 Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Response...
by Government of Barbados | Mar 28, 2024 | Top Stories
(Stock Photo) I was saddened to learn of the passing of Mr. Ismail Patel, a founding member of the Roving Response Team in Barbados with Call Sign RT1. In 1994, his foresight, with others like Yousf Dokrak, et al, for the need to have a team of able-bodied resource...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Mar 22, 2024 | Top Stories
Staff and students of the St. Albans Primary School at Weston, St. James make their way to higher ground as part of annual Caribe Wave exercise and drill yesterday. (J. Bishop/BGIS) Students and staff of the St. Albans and Roland Edwards Primary Schools wasted no time...