St. Johns, Antigua, July 29th, 2016 (CDEMA) – The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) is currently conducting an inter-agency exercise aimed at strengthening the regional and global coordinating mechanisms for disasters in the region.
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, June 10th, 2016 (CDEMA) - In an effort to strengthen cooperation among disaster and emergency management agencies across the region, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Emergency Commission (CNE) of the Dominican Republic.
Bridgetown, Barbados, May 30th 2016 (CDEMA) - Children and residential and day nursery officers of the Barbados Child Care Board were actively involved in a full scale exercise to test their level of readiness in the event of a disaster. The exercise was held last Thursday on the grounds of the Nightingale Children’s Home in Black Rock and included a fire and an earthquake drill. Technical teams from the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), the Barbados Fire Service, the Royal Barbados Police Force and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) facilitated the exercise.