{"id":11463,"date":"2011-09-01T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T13:50:50","slug":"hurricane-irene-battered-islands-see-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/hurricane-irene-battered-islands-see-relief","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irene Battered Islands See Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11471\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11471 \" title=\"nema-irene2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nema-irene2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nema-irene2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nema-irene2-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nema-irene2-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Chiran Livera, Disaster Response Delegate from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent Society&#39;s Pan American Disater Response Unit (PADRU), assists members of the Bahamas Red Cross with the off loading of the almost 100 boxes of groceries, home goods and pot sets for shipment to Rum Cay and Cat Island on the MV Lady Frances, on August 30, 2011.  (BIS Photo\/ Eric Rose)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASSAU, The Bahamas &#8212;\u00a0 The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reported that Hurricane Irene disaster relief response is in high gear and started as early as Friday, when an initial assessment team, made of NEMA governmental and non-governmental partners, and a shipment of food, water and goods went to Acklins and Crooked Island.<\/p>\n<p>Since then NEMA has co-ordinated the shipment of goods to Rum Cay, Cat Island, Crooked Island and Acklins, consisting mainly of basic food and water supplies.\u00a0 Utility poles have been shipped to Cat Island and Acklins by the Bahamas Electricity Corporation.\u00a0 Mayaguana received a shipment of goods from Jamaica through Caricom and delivered by the Jamaican Air Force, on Saturday, August 27.<\/p>\n<p>Tarpaulin is available in large quantities and is being delivered as quickly as we are able to get space on flights going to the affected island.\u00a0 Also the HMBS Nassau is presently off Smith\u2019s Bay delivering a contingent of 10 marines who join the two already posted there.\u00a0 Teams are assisting residents with cleanup and the entire ship&#8217;s company of some 30 to 40 persons are assisting with cleanup around the island.<\/p>\n<p>Further efforts include the delivering and setting up generators, which will make water reverse osmosis plants operational; the Caribbean Disastster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)\u00a0 assisting with technical teams to conduct assessments, in Cat Island in particular; BEC being in contact with the Caribbean Electric Utility Service Corporation (CARILEC) with regard to assistance with electricity restoration, in Cat Island in particular and the Water and Sewerage Corporation sending generators to Cat Island to increase water production.<\/p>\n<p>By Eric Rose<br \/>\nBahamas Information Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reported that Hurricane Irene disaster relief response is in high gear having shipped food, water and goods to several battered islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[181,59],"class_list":["post-11463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-hurricane","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}