SKN Begins Emergency Operations Centres Training R. Wilson Story Updated: January 26 th 2015 at 2:34 pm
Stakeholders in disaster management in St. Kitts and Nevis are undergoing training on how to establish, operate and manage Emergency Operation Centres during times of national disaster. Participants in St. Kitts began a two-day training workshop today (Jan 26) at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), while the workshop is scheduled for Thursday and Friday (Jan 29-30) at the Nevis Disaster Management Department office in Longpoint. The training is being by facilitated by CDEMA and comes ahead of the Trade Winds 2015 disaster response exercise, which will be hosted in three phases from May through June by St. Kitts and Nevis, Belize and the United States. Participants in the St. Kitts and Nevis workshops will, in addition to the administrative, staffing, funding, and management aspects of EOCs, be instructed on the role of an EOC in disaster management, managing inter-agency coordination, utilizing mass media for information dissemination, organizing and conducting briefings, information management, and briefing government officials.
