BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct 5, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), says it placed a number of regional response teams on standby to assist Haiti and other Caribbean countries hit by Hurricane Matthew.

“CDEMA continues to receive regular situation reports from Haiti as well as updates from The Bahamas, and Turks & Caicos Islands, which are also threatened by Mathew. The Regional Coordination Plan (RCP) remains activated and a number of our specialised regional response teams are currently on standby”, said CDEMA executive director, Ronald Jackson.

Matthew, the most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade, left thousands of people displaced in Haiti, devastating parts of the country and has now moved off the north-eastern coast of Cuba towards Florida, where warnings are in place.

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