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The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane season began on Friday with the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) urging regional countries to undertake all necessary measures to ensure safety to their populations and<\/p>

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Top scientists with the Colorado State University say the season may not be as dangerous as earlier predicted and that a near-average season is likely, with 14 named storms, of which six would become hurricanes. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its wind speed reaches 74 miles per hour (mph).<\/p>\n

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They said the reason for the revised predictions is that seawater in the eastern Atlantic Ocean is unusually cold for this time of year and in addition, a weak El Ni\u00f1o could also form later in the year, which tends to suppress Atlantic hurricane development.<\/p>

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But CDEMA executive director, Ronald Jackson, speaking at a news conference, said regional countries, particularly those that were several impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria when they passed through the Lesser Antilles last September, should take all necessary precautions to save life and limb.<\/p>

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He said CDEMA and other stakeholders had staged an event late last month \u201csharpening our capacities for dealing with disaster issues,\u201d acknowledging that \u201cthere\u2019s work to be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key messages that I think we need to take away from our readiness for the hurricane season is that CDEMA promotes an all hazards approach and so our efforts towards readiness is not focused only on the hurricane season but across the entire hazard spectrum that affects the Caribbean region.<\/p>

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\u201cWe want our member states and citizens to be able to recognise that we are exposed not only to hurricanes\u2026but there are a number of other challenges and threats that we are grappling with as a region\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jackson said it was necessary for the region to continue to strengthen its capacity to deal with such disasters, adding \u201cwe remain very confident in the regional response mechanism as vehicle for providing coordination support to member states\u201d.<\/p>

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He said it has been tried tested and proven \u201cand it has been hailed as a piece of innovation, not only in the Caribbean but across the globe and we have confidence in it and its partners at the regional level\u201d.<\/p>

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He said the regional response mechanism has benefitted from \u201ckey lessons\u2026from 2017 hurricane season and we will be continuing with reviewing and enhancing the regional response mechanism going forward out of\u00a0 2018\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told reporters that the \u201ckey\u201d lessons out of last year was that in the immediate aftermath of the passage of the hurricanes the \u201cmain communication that stood up and that functioned and provided critical information on all the countries would have been the amateur radio operators.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere I want to put a personal plug for young people to join these particular organisations. In the age of technology that there is something that is very attractive to the youth and we want the youths supporting the comprehensive disaster management (CDM)\u2026get involved in amateur radio operations..\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jackson also indicated that while efforts had been made to get member countries prepared for the season through the \u201cpreparedness audit\u201d unfortunately \u201conly five of our member states completed the audit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy all means this is not what we would want. The CDEMA is encouraging our member states to ensure that those who have not yet done so that they do so quickly because it allows us to be able to look at the on hand capabilities of the states and helps us to look at the predictable support that could come based on their gaps.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we are encouraging the states, more than ever, that they need to complete these audit instruments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jackson said a number of meetings and training programmes with stakeholder partners and others are scheduled for this year including one of the Regional Preparedness and Response partners of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).<\/p>\n

He said CDEMA would also be partnering with the World Food Programme to host a conference on food security.<\/p>\n

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