AUTHORITIES HAVE fallen short of their call for 1 000 volunteers, but say all is still set for the launch of Exercise Tradewinds 2017 today.
Exercise co-director Major Carlos Lovell told the DAILY NATION yesterday they had only recorded around 700 of the requested volunteers to take part in the week-long regional, multi-agency, multi-national security and disaster management exercise.
However, he said more people were expected to fall in line.
“We have one or two other organisations who have also committed volunteers, so I don’t know what the final number will be, but right now we have around 700 and we will be able to work with those. I am pleased with the response of the public; they have come out in a way I have not seen for any other military event in Barbados,” he said. (CA)
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