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Three Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries are to ben­e­fit from as­sis­tance from the World Bank for dis­as­ter risk man­age­ment projects.

The Wash­ing­ton-based fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion said that the US$70 mil­lion Dis­as­ter Risk Man­age­ment De­vel­op­ment Pol­i­cy Fi­nanc­ing project will as­sist St. Lu­cia, Bar­ba­dos and St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

Ac­cord­ing to the World Bank, the US$20 mil­lion project for St. Lu­cia will help the coun­try quick­ly ac­cess fi­nan­cial re­sources in case of an emer­gency, so it can re­spond faster and sup­port its peo­ple.