A multi-agency approach is needed to help Barbados and other Caribbean states prepare and recover from an environmental disaster, says Prime Minister Mia Mottley.Delivering remarks at the 12th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management, which was held in hybrid mode at the Savannah Beach Resort, Hastings, Christ Church on Wednesday, she said governments and regional disaster emergency bodies needed help to provide the best defence and take action immediately after a disaster hits.“Our ability to plan and adapt, to develop resilience, to mitigate is greater than it has ever been and we have simply to rise to the challenge,” she said.Referencing Cuba’s disaster response mechanisms, Mottley said that at the core of successful disaster response “is the ability to decentralise and to ensure that units and its smallest number of people holding a unit can all carry weight all at the same time”.
