Written by Gianleo Frisari, Anaitee Mills, Mariana Silva, Marcel Ham, Elisa Donadi, Christine Shepherd, and Irene Pohl FOREWORD This “Toolkit for Climate Resilient Infrastructure PPP” and the...
World + 2 more
World + 2 more
Written by Gianleo Frisari, Anaitee Mills, Mariana Silva, Marcel Ham, Elisa Donadi, Christine Shepherd, and Irene Pohl FOREWORD This “Toolkit for Climate Resilient Infrastructure PPP” and the...
Jamaica + 1 more
Daraine Luton, Senior Staff Reporter HONORARY CHAIR and patron of the Jamaican Canadian Initiative for Disaster Resilience and Response (JCIDRR), former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, says...
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) as part of its Hurricane Preparedness Month activities for May 2013, hosted housing sector professionals in a day long forum at...
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will be donating US$30,000.00 to the Earthquake Unit, University of the West Indies (UWI), to facilitate the installation of four...
Sunday, December 16, 2012 Persons with disabilities in Portmore, St Catherine, are to be a part of a pilot early warning system being implemented by Panos Caribbean, the Office of Disaster...
World + 1 more
The Caribbean Disaster Risk Atlas, a tool to enhance decision-making to reduce the serious economic and social impacts of natural hazards in the region, was launched Monday June 25th at the...
The community of Old Harbour Bay is one step closer to strengthening its disaster plan after successfully conducting its first Earthquake and Tsunami drill yesterday. The drill which was spearheaded...
OFFICE OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES FROM: Kimberley Weller, Information Officer DEPT: Information and Training PHONE: (876) 906 9674-5 / 754 9077-8 FAX:...
Press Release # 1 Issued on: Thursday January 12, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. “Haiti Quake- Two Years Later” Today marks the second anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck Haiti. It was...
KINGSTON — Project Manager, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Kirk Frankson, has informed that the agency will be rolling out a pilot phase of the Jamaica Landslide...
KINGSTON — Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson says the agency is aiming to expand its capacity to be able to provide emergency and...