Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque said the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency is “a regional champion and broker for comprehensive disaster management” in his message at the launch of the CDM’s Strategy 2014-2024 in Jamaica last Tuesday. Since its inception, the CDEMA played a sterling role as the Region’s premier organization for disaster risk management, he said, according to a press statement from the Caricom Secretariat.
“Due to the efforts of CDEMA, there is now political awareness and support for disaster management and in