Last Thursday Bill Proenza, Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) National Weather Service’s Southern Region, Director of the Caribbean Tsunami Center, Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade, and Warning Coordination Meteorologist Mr. Rafael Mojica met with His Excellence the Governor Mr. David Pearey and members of the Department of Disaster Management (DDM).
Engineers from viaRadio Corporation are in the Territory to commence the installation of warning devices within a number of critical facilities including schools, police stations, clinics, national parks posts and fire stations.
The Department of Department Management met on Friday morning with Acting Deputy Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).
Ms. Saudia Rahat, Senior Programme Officer with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) is spending this week with the Department of Disaster Management.
Predictions released by Colorado State University’s leading forecaster, Professor William Gray, call for an above-average probability of US and Caribbean major hurricane landfall for 2010.
The Department of Disaster Management DDM will be meeting Thursday morning to assess the conduct of the simulation exercise.
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