A new cache of emergency equipment is expected to significantly improve disaster response in St George North, giving community teams the tools to coordinate faster and operate more effectively when emergencies strike.

The Department of Emergency Management presented the equipment at DEM headquarters at No. 24 Warrens Industrial Park, as part of a project to strengthen the rural constituency’s district emergency organisation, which was funded through the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency’s (CDEMA) Building Resilience of CARIFORUM States to Disaster Risks and Climate Change Impacts (BRICS) programme supported by the European Union.

Chairman of the St. George North DEO Roderick “Rickie” Yarde described the handover as an important milestone in enhancing the district’s disaster response capabilities: