by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Feb 19, 2020 | Ministry News
The Department of Emergency Management (DEM) has designated Friday, March 6, as National Earthquake Preparedness Day. Members of the public are encouraged to conduct the “Drop, Cover and Hold On” earthquake drill within their homes, schools, businesses or communities...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jan 27, 2020 | Ministry News
(Stock Photo) Members of the public are invited to attend the first of two national tsunami community meetings on Thursday, January 30, at the Fisherman’s Pub, Queen Street, Speightstown, St. Peter, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The draft tsunami evacuation maps for the...
by Joy-Ann Gill | Nov 22, 2019 | Ministry News
(Stock Photo) The Barbados Postal Service will next week play host to several delegates expected on the island to attend the Universal Postal Union’s Disaster Risk Management Workshop. The workshop, which will be conducted in the Caribbean Postal Training Centre,...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Nov 7, 2019 | Ministry News
Lifeguards listen attentively to Programme Officer at the DEM, Gayle Drakes (right), during a sensitization session and tabletop exercise on tsunamis. (S.Maughan/BGIS) Lifeguards have raised concerns about members of the public heeding warnings to get out of the sea...
by BGIS | Oct 31, 2019 | Ministry News
(Stock Photo) The Barbados Council for the Disabled, in collaboration with the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), will be conducting a survey targeted at the disabled community from Monday, November 4, to Friday, November 29. The survey is designed to...