DISASTER MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS are worried about the potential impact of indiscriminate dumping of garbage and the threat posed by the Aedes aegypti mosquito with the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season getting under way.
Acting deputy director of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), Captain Robert Harewood, said they were also concerned that Barbadians might have become too complacent.
“I suppose it’s because we’ve not been impacted severely for some time. Most of our impact of late would have been from tropical weather storms, but we wantto encourage persons to recognise that it could only be one event impacting upon us and it could happen maybe as early as next week [or] the week after,” Harewood cautioned.
He was addressing the annual media conference held by the office of the DEM yesterday, which coincided with the official start of the hurricane season and Hurricane Awareness Month. (WILLCOMM)
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