by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 14, 2017 | banner, Top Stories
A volunteer being transported for ‘treatment’ by members of the Barbados Fire Service at the Exercise Tradewinds simulation at the fictitious ‘Hotel Glendairy Meadows’ last Saturday. (C.Pitt/BGIS) Persons across Barbados who volunteered and...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 13, 2017 | Ministry News
A call for Barbados to conduct frequent exercises to strengthen its emergency response system and its ability to respond to disasters has not gone unnoticed. In fact, one of the main recommendations from volunteers and persons making up the national emergency...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 6, 2017 | banner, Top Stories
Barbados’ response to threats of illegal drug trafficking; arms and human trafficking; gun related crime and other criminal activity will be tested over the next few days, as Exercise TRADEWINDS 2017 gets under way. And, the exercise has the full support of Prime...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 6, 2017 | Ministry News
Members of the public will have a chance to get close to personnel participating in Exercise TRADEWINDS 2017 tomorrow, Wednesday, June 7, between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. They will have an opportunity to tour and view the Black Hawk helicopters and other land based...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 4, 2017 | Ministry News
The Exercise TRADEWINDS Secretariat is urging members of the public to take down their kites until the exercise is completed on Monday, June 12. This is to facilitate the safe flight of the crews onboard helicopters and other aircraft participating in Exercise...