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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Old Harbour Bay sele...nge ( RJR )...</span>
A Jamaican flood prone community has been selected by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDEMA) for a study on the effect of climate change. The community is Old Harbour Bay in St. Catherine, which is one of the most vulnerable areas during hurricanes and tropical storms.Nicole Alleyne, Project Director at CDEMA which is based in Barbados, explains why the community was chosen."We were utalising two pilot communities for the study and it's very important that Old Harbour Bay and Jamaica was selected. We went through a ranking process to identify countries that may be at very high risk and then we asked the countries to identify communities that have some base line work that would have done in disaster management, understanding the basic elements, which we could build on to provide the information as it relates to climate change," Miss Alleyne told RJR News.The other pilot site being assessed is a community in Trinidad and Tobago.The information gathered on studies will be carefully analysed and assessed to see how best lessons learnt, can be applied to the region's disaster preparedness.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Old Harbour Bay sele...nge ( RJR )...</span>
A Jamaican flood prone community has been selected by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDEMA) for a study on the effect of climate change. The community is Old Harbour Bay in St. Catherine, which is one of the most vulnerable areas during hurricanes and tropical storms.Nicole Alleyne, Project Director at CDEMA which is based in Barbados, explains why the community was chosen."We were utalising two pilot communities for the study and it's very important that Old Harbour Bay and Jamaica was selected. We went through a ranking process to identify countries that may be at very high risk and then we asked the countries to identify communities that have some base line work that would have done in disaster management, understanding the basic elements, which we could build on to provide the information as it relates to climate change," Miss Alleyne told RJR News.The other pilot site being assessed is a community in Trinidad and Tobago.The information gathered on studies will be carefully analysed and assessed to see how best lessons learnt, can be applied to the region's disaster preparedness.