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CDEMA deploys Superintendent Sylvan McIntyre to St Vincent

This story was posted 1 year ago
5 March 2021
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The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Coordinating Unit has officially deployed Superintendent Sylvan McIntyre of Grenada to assist authorities in St Vincent and the Grenadines with the effusive eruption at the La Soufriere Volcano.

Commencing 1 March 2021, Superintendent McIntyre will spend 6 weeks supporting the national disaster office with the ongoing volcano crisis under the Regional Response Mechanism (RRM).

Superintendent McIntyre looks forward to a successful intervention as he represents the Caricom Operational Support Team (COST) of CDEMA through his wealth of expertise. He said, “I feel first and foremost humbled to be recognised as one of the persons in the region to be responding to a sister country that is in need. Secondly, it gives me a sense of regional collaboration support that Grenada was able to see to the request of St Vincent.”

“I feel confident that I will be of support to St Vincent. I am concerned but not scared of the environment, I am aware of the issues having worked on the frontlines since March 2020. Therefore…I will keep myself safe.”

CDEMA Acting Executive Director Elizabeth Riley remarked, “This deployment is an example of regional and international collaboration at its finest. Through the COST we are able to source the technical expertise required to respond to and mitigate against the many natural hazards that threaten our region. We are grateful to the Government of Grenada for facilitating this request and for Superintendent McIntyre’s willingness to apply his experience and skill set on the ground in St Vincent and the Grenadines.”

Funding for the deployment of Superintendent McIntyre was available through the Caribbean Climate Resilience Initiative, launched in August 2020 with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This initiative sees US$4.5 million being used to help countries reduce disaster and recover from hazard impacts and climate variability.

Riley added, “We also thank our international partner, USAID, whose contribution makes it significantly easier to apply our home-grown expertise throughout the Caribbean region.”

USAID/Eastern and Southern Caribbean’s Regional Representative, Clinton White, said, “I am delighted that the US Government through USAID is able to support this important assignment to the Government and people of St Vincent and the Grenadines. The American people and USAID respond in the Caribbean’s time of need. We are helping the region to respond to emergencies and build resilience to climate variability and natural disasters. Together, we can strengthen resilience to disasters and make communities more vibrant.”

Superintendent McIntyre has been a pillar within the RRM, having been a part of CDEMA’s response to events such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Irma of 2017 in the British Virgin Islands and Hurricane Dorian of 2019 in The Bahamas. His tasks under this deployment include reviewing evacuation plans and relief management, assisting the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) with a Volcanic Hazard table-top exercise and examining the interface of the National Emergency Operations Centre to support the Covid-19 response and multi-hazard complexities.

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Comments 7

  1. Wilson T-2000 says:
    1 year ago

    CDEMA. No need to define it.
    Obtuse acronym. Perfunctory Journalism 101.

    Reply
  2. D. Evill says:
    1 year ago

    Thanks for that Caroline, you really cheered me up! I haven’t laughed so much for years.
    If was obviously a tongue-in-cheek comment but I am sure there must be some deluded idiots that think you were being serious!
    You ought to be on the telly with comedy like that.

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  3. Caroline says:
    1 year ago

    Blessings and God’s divine favors upon your deployment Superintendent McIntyre. May God’s presence go with you and may the Lord give his angels charge concerning you to keep you in all your ways. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

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    • B. Elzebub says:
      1 year ago

      The Lord is too busy trying to wipe us all out with Covid 19 to worry about the superintendent, Caroline.
      Take that up with him next time you pray.

      Reply
      • James S says:
        1 year ago

        As your name suggests, you are a false witness B. Elzebub. Most people in Grenada and the world have told “the LORD”, Creator of heaven and earth, to leave them alone with their favorite sin. Like a gentleman, He has done what they asked, while you and your god came in and brought COVID with you.

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        • Vonnie J says:
          1 year ago

          Hey Jimmy, that’s cack. I don’t remember telling God to leave me alone to my favourite sin. He wouldn’t listen anyway.
          I reckon God did a week’ s work a few billion years ago and he’s done nothing since.
          No point singing to him or praying to him is there.
          I used to be a strict baptist til I saw the light. Now I realise I was conned.

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        • Lucy Fer says:
          1 year ago

          What’s wong with the surname “Elzebub”? I have a vewy good fwend in Wome called Elzebub.

          And Vonnie is right. God is a lazy hypocritical waster.

          Reply

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