The District Emergency Response Team (DERT) training programme for District Emergency Organisations (DEO) officially ended yesterday at the Princess Margaret Secondary...
A number of officers from the District Emergency Organisation (DEO) were recently exposed to sensitisation training. This is as a result of a training workshop sponsored by the...
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Slow-moving Bertha barely clung to its hurricane status as it hovered near Bermuda early Sunday, and forecasters said it could weaken to tropical...
Tropical Storm Bertha was expected to become the 2008 Atlantic storm season's first hurricane as it steamed toward the United States over open waters between Bermuda and the...
Tropical Depression #2 which formed just before daybreak Thursday EST has intensified to become the second tropical storm of the season. The cyclone was upgraded to Tropical...
The National Hurricane Centre in Miami says they will likely upgrade a tropical disturbance in the eastern Atlantic to the second tropical depression of the 2008 Atlantic...
Hurricane forecasters are monitoring a strong tropical wave which they believe has the potential to become the second tropical storm of this year's hurricane season.The very...
District Emergency Organisations were set up in Barbados, to fit into an international framework requiring communities to be the first response in case of emergency. But...
Microburst a.k.a DownburstA downburst is created by a column of sinking air that, after hitting ground level, spreads out in all directions and is capable of producing damaging...
Some of the details were revealed recently by Home Affairs Minister, Freundel Stuart during a seminar for liaison officers of the Civil Service at Warrens Complex.According to...
Bajans prepare on approach of the stormBarbadians are failing to prepare in advance for the hurricane season, according to leading hardware retailers.Marketing manager Ruth...
The St. Andrew District Emergency Organisation with the Sanitation Service Authority and the Ministry of Health will be holding two Town Hall meetings in St. Andrew. ...
The St. George North District Emergency Organisation will hold its monthly meeting on Monday June 09, 2008 at the Valley Resource Center, Glebe, St. George. The meeting is...
An appeal is going out for damage assessment officers. Head of the Barbados Statistical Service, Angela Hunte, said there were still some areas of the island to be covered,...
Above: Unmanned aircraft will undertake dangerous hurricane reconnaissance missions in the Caribbean for the first time in 2008.The United States government is positioning four...
Fort Collins, Colorado - A noted hurricane researcher is predicting eight hurricanes will form in the Atlantic this year, and says four of them will be major. ...
A top government official says that question is best answered not by the Department of Emergency Management, but by each Barbadian after reflecting on their own state of...
The first storm of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season has formed near the coast of Belize. The National Hurricane Centre says Tropical Storm Arthur formed yesterday afternoon...
The WMO Hurricane Committee has retired the names of Dean, Felix and Noel, which were three of the most devastating storms of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. Almost 200...
Clive Lorde Disaster Risk Management Specialist during his lecture on Preparedness.The Community Response Team training programme for District Emergency Organisations...
CHENGDU, China - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in...
If you are interested in following the Myanmar Relief efforts, you can click on the following link to visit the Myanmar Relief Blog: http://myanmarrelief.blogspot.comThe blog...
Members of the public are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the St. Philip South District Emergency Organisation. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 13,...
Yangon : At least 15,000 people have been killed in two divisions of Yangon and Ayeyawaddy in a violent cyclone storm Nargis that swept Myanmar's five divisions and states on...
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