National Emergency Management Agency (Bahamas)
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the Bahamas .
history
The government of the Bahamas has had a National Emergency Relief Account with the Royal Bank of Canada for emergency relief operations since the island state became independent . After Hurricane Andrew hit the Bahamas in August 1992 , the government set up a permanent body to deal with tropical storms. After Hurricane Floyd 1999, a subcommittee on reconstruction was also formed, which helped repair the damage caused by Andrew by summer 2002 .
The body's remit has now been expanded to include all kinds of disasters. Accordingly, it was renamed the Disaster Management Committee (DMC), the reconstruction subcommittee to the Disaster Management Unit (DMU). The DMC is made up of government members and officials. It meets every last Friday of the month, if necessary more often.
The DMU subcommittee was later expanded into a comprehensive civil protection agency and was named the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
NEMA runs training programs for participants from all areas of the archipelago. In several communities, people were trained in disaster control and representatives from the individual islands were asked to draw up disaster control plans. In the event of a disaster, NEMA activates the operations center, known as the Emergency Operations Center , from where it coordinates disaster control.
NEMA is a member of the Intergovernmental Network for Disaster Management CDEMA of the Caribbean Community .
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ The Bahamas Philatelic Bureau: Bahamas Hurricane Awareness. Nassau 2010, online at bahamas.gov.bs (PDF; 1.44 MB; English).
- ^ Participating States. In: cdema.org . Retrieved September 2, 2019.