Students aged 12-17 have the opportunity to learn the basics of how to respond to various emergencies during a three-day Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training.

The latest forecast for the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season warns the region to expect for an “approximately average" season. Published by the Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project, the June 4 forecast report is slightly upgraded from the April document.

Interested Tenderers are notified that the project submission for the construction of the National Emergency Operations Centre building has been extended to June 11.

All parents and guardians are reminded to make the necessary preparations to safeguard their children this Hurricane Season.

Members of the humanitarian and disaster relief crew of RFA Mounts Bay and the RN helicopter will be paying a brief flying visit to the Virgin Islands today, Monday May 27.

The two-day Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Workshop kicked off at the Moorings yesterday May 23. 

The public is notified that the Department of Disaster Management will be testing its National Siren System and National Emergency Broadcast System today Friday, May 24 at 2:00 p.m.

The Department of Disaster Management will be testing its National Siren System and National Emergency Broadcast System today Friday, May 24 at 2:00 p.m.

Did you know that understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction?

The Government of the Virgin Islands will host a high level delegation of United Nations experts at a workshop to draw attention to gender differences in responding to, and recovering from natural disasters on May 23 to 24.