Don’t let your guard down, CDEMA boss warns

By Michelle Nurse On Aug 16, 2016

CDEMA Executive Director, Mr. Ronald Jackson

Despite a somewhat quiet hurricane season so far, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson is warning Barbados and the rest of the Caribbean not to be complacent.

Up until now, Barbados has escaped any major storms and Hurricane Earl, which formed in the western Caribbean on August 2, 2016, and made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Belize City, Belize early in the morning on August 4, is the only hurricane to affect the Caribbean so far this year.

Jackson told Barbados TODAY this was no reason for Barbadians or Caribbean residents to be lax.

“We have heard this, [that] God is a Bajan; God is a Trini; God maybe a Jamaican; He maybe an Anguillan; He is all of us but that doesn’t mean that we are not going to be impacted by the vagaries of natural disasters.