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CANARI release on Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019
CANARI launches project to empower civil society and local communities to build resilience to hurricanes and climate extremes in the Eastern Caribbean Port of Spain, October 13, 2019 – For Immediate Release CANARI launches project to empower civil society and…
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Jamaica to host 7th Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
From Devdiscourse An Americas and Caribbean conference on disaster risk reduction closed with ministers reiterating support for a regional plan to accelerate action against natural and man-made hazards that take a heavy toll each year. An Americas and Caribbean conference…
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Caribbean hurricane season under review
By Brigitte Leoni From Relief Web REPORT from UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction GENEVA, 22 March, 2018 – A comprehensive review on how early warning systems performed in the Caribbean during the record-breaking 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season will highlight…
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Byron-Nisbett attends Trinidad and Tobago retreat on “Building Caribbean Resilience”
SOURCE: St Kitts & Nevis Observer From the St. Kitts-Nevis Parliament Basseterre, St. Kitts – Deputy Speaker Sen. the Honourable Akilah Byron-Nisbett was among Parliamentarians from 15 Caribbean countries and a dozen development agencies who recently participated in a two-day retreat…
UN-backed disaster risk reduction guidelines to help tackle hunger in Latin America
From New Kerala New York, Jan 21 : The United Nations and the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have together crafted a blueprint for making the agriculture, food and nutritional security sectors more disaster-proof so the region can…
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20 years of Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean
From Reliefweb Located over the Pacific’s Nazca tectonic plate, the North American plate and the Caribbean plate which are constantly shifting, the region suffers frequent, powerful earthquakes that devastate the region; in April 2015, Ecuador was shaken by a magnitude…
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Canada partners with PAHO to reduce disaster risks in the Caribbean health sector
New 3 million CAD grant will strengthen health sector’s disaster and emergency preparedness and increase resilience to climate change Bridgetown, Barbados, 29 August 2016 (PAHO/WHO) — The Government of Canada has announced a grant of 3 million Canadian dollars (CAD)…
The Caribbean has an air tax problem
By George Nicholson Op-Ed Contributor From Caribbean Journal The regional airline industry has been characterised by a high degree of commercial difficulties. The last three decades has seen the Caribbean airspace littered with the remains of more than thirty carriers…
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Caribbean
eTN Global Travel Industry News The issue of global financing for development is a critical theme in the international development agenda with the most recent United Nations (UN) meeting being the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), which…
