Akash Sama­roo

Dis­as­ter man­age­ment ex­perts say while they un­der­stand the frus­tra­tions ex­pressed by Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath about the op­er­a­tions of the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness Man­age­ment (ODPM), in­suf­fi­cient leg­is­la­tion and in­ad­e­quate re­sources hin­der the agency’s abil­i­ty to meet his ex­pec­ta­tions.

Padarath made scathing crit­i­cisms of the ODPM in the pres­ence of its CEO Ma­jor Gen­era Rod­ney Smart at the launch of the 18th Na­tion­al Cli­mate Out­look Fo­rum in Pi­ar­co on Wednes­day.