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...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Mar 12, 2024 | Ministry News
(Stock Image) The Department of Emergency Management, in collaboration with the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU) and the Caribbean Tsunami Information Centre (CTIC), will host a Tsunami Ready Recognition Webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, March 13, from 10:00 a.m. to...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Mar 11, 2024 | Ministry News
(Stock Photo) The Run, Tsunami Run 5K Walk and Run comes off on Sunday, March 24, and will start and finish at the Speighstown Esplanade, Sand Street, St. Peter, beginning at 4:00 p.m. This is the one of the activities being held during Coastal Hazards and Earthquake...